It is important to celebrate victories for economic freedom as they emerge, even when they come in the most peculiar of places. One such place is the racing world.  In October, North Carolina Governor

Thanksgiving draws people, regardless of race or creed, together around a table heavy with food and laughter. At its center sits a golden turkey, but it’s the sides (mashed potatoes, green beans, stuffing,

In a recent analysis gone viral, financial blogger Michael W. Green traced how modern American families can earn anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 and still fall further behind. The argument is devastatingly simple:

In most sectors of the American economy, we celebrate the moment when insiders break away to build something better. Engineers start their own firms. Chefs open their own restaurants. Innovators leave incumbents and

The longest federal shutdown in US history has created deep gaps in the flow of economic data, preventing calculation of the Business Conditions Monthly indices. Most BCM components depend on federal statistical agencies,

Can regulation work when a market changes faster than a case can be litigated?The Justice Department filed its antitrust case against Google in 2020. By the time Judge Amit Mehta issued his ruling in

The 2025 Thanksgiving season arrives with an unwelcome development: after last year’s brief and much-needed period of easing in several Thanksgiving staples, prices have begun to tick back up. As of September 2025,

Introduction The gold standard was a monetary system that defined a unit of a nation’s currency as a fixed weight of gold and made the two mutually exchangeable. For much of modern history, several