Tag: Free Market

Free market or welfare?

Jennifer Schubert-Akin · October 24, 2021 12:00 am

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash, speaks at an anti-Muslim ban rally outside the Supreme Court as the court hears arguments about wether President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries violates immigration law or the Constitution, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in Washington.

The easy, proven way to fight poverty: Reject socialism

Washington Examiner · October 2, 2021 4:00 am

Shoppers wear masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic on The Promenade Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in Santa Monica, Calif.

As we endure COVID-19, don’t underestimate our extraordinary freedom crisis

Brad Lips · September 17, 2021 4:00 am

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2014, file photo, trader Damian Bagarozza, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. On Sept. 18, the U.S. stock market was at a record high after a relatively uneventful summer. Long-term interest rates were heading higher, a sign that investors expected steady growth in the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Beltway Confidential

Markets flashing warnings on Biden tax increases and economy

Bruce Thompson · July 15, 2021 2:00 pm

Bob Chitester: The man who explained capitalism to the world

Rainer Zitelmann · May 11, 2021 12:00 am

An applicant fills out a form during a 2014 job fair in Sunrise, Fla. More than 60 percent of CEOs surveyed by the Business Roundtable plan to expand payrolls this year.

Beltway Confidential

When CEOs don’t stand up for free markets

Nicholas Kerr · April 25, 2021 3:00 pm

The fall of Chile is a warning to America

Stephen Moore · March 19, 2021 3:00 am

In this Feb. 16, 2021, file photo, customers use the light from a cell phone to look in the meat section of a grocery store in Dallas. Even though the store lost power, it was open for cash only sales.

How can Texas prevent another power failure?

Tom Tribone · February 25, 2021 5:00 am

The shocking economics of power and prices

Alexander Salter · February 23, 2021 12:00 am

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks with reporters about trade negotiations with China, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Washington.

Larry Kudlow torches Trump administration colleagues as he exits

Nihal Krishan · January 20, 2021 12:38 pm

In this Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., delivers her inaugural address following her swearing-in ceremony at the Renaissance School for Musical Theater and Technology in the Bronx borough of New York.

Likely voters still prefer capitalism over socialism: Poll

Tyler Van Dyke · December 24, 2020 3:17 pm

Beltway Confidential

The coronavirus, not ‘capitalism,’ will be to blame for any rise in global poverty

Rainer Zitelmann · December 23, 2020 3:58 pm