Policy, Government & Analysis
Jessica Schultz Jessica Schultz is an undergraduate student majoring in Economics and Statistics at Duke University, and a Campus Ambassador for FEE. The Cantillon Effect: Because of Inflation, We’re ...
Few observers missed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ interview and photoshoot last week in which the rising, avowedly-socialist N.Y. congressional candidate wore a $3500 suit and shoes while hobnobbing with...
Peter C. Earle Is the Director of Economics and Economic Freedom and a Senior Economist at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, MA. Trade Protectionists Are the New Lockdo...
Last week, a transportation consultant named Bruce Schaller published a report claiming that ride-hailing was increasing traffic congestion. Since then, we’ve been inundated with wild claims Uber and ...
Remember peak oil ? Remember when oil prices were $140 a barrel and Goldman Sachs predicted they would soon reach $200 ? Now, the latest news is that oil prices have gone up all the way to $34 a barre...
President Trump has reportedly expressed reservations about public-private partnerships, but White House economic advisor Gary Cohn is still enthusiastic about building the administration’s fabled inf...
“Billions spent, but fewer people are using public transportation,” declares the Los Angeles Times . The headline might have been more accurate if it read, “Billions spent, so therefore fewer are usin...
Rising home prices and apartment rents have been in the news lately, but almost no one is looking at the real causes behind these problems. Instead, they are proposing band-aid solutions that will do ...
Congress rejected the Forest Service plan to give the agency access to up to $2.9 billion a year to suppress wildfires. In response, the Secretary of Agriculture threatened to let fires burn up the We...
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to spend twice as much on infrastructure as whatever Hillary Clinton was proposing, which at the time was $275 billion. Doubling down again in a speech aft...
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has just published a paper on the economic cost of failing to modernize transit , referring to the roughly $100 billion maintenance backlog built ...
There are no good guys to cheer for in the militia takeover of an Oregon federal office building on January 2. The ostensible issue is the re-sentencing of two Oregon ranchers–Dwight Hammond and son S...
I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly di...
Like the apocryphal story of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3, the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws of supply & demand don’t exist. ...
Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission (NHTSC) formally proposed to mandate that all new cars be equipped with “vehicle-to-vehicle” (V2V) communications, also known as connected-veh...
The death of a pedestrian who was struck by an Uber autonomous car Sunday night has led to questions about whether driverless cars are safe. However, it appears that the accident could not have been p...
Complaining about the news is a well-worn, bipartisan pastime. We may disagree on what constitutes “bad news,” but everyone can agree there’s way too much of it these days. And yet the Internet Age is...
Deciding which creative projects to attempt is an incredibly difficult job, both as an artist and as any kind of executive producer. We live in a world of infinite creative ideas but painfully finite ...
From time to time, I see lists on the internet that propose to solve the problems of intergenerational poverty in America. Unfortunately, most of the time, these lists recommend massive transfers of w...
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (or Philosopher’s Stone, if you’re British) became the most popular thing of all time in 1997, just in time for high-school me to think that anything everyone els...