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Did America Get Fat by Listening to Government Experts?

A panel of government experts gets together and decides what is healthy to eat and what isn’t. What could possibly go wrong? That path has actually made diet-re...

Sketchy Bankruptcies Are Corrupting a Vital Market Mechanism

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Modern Mercantilists Misunderstand Money

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4 Ways the Fight against Inequality Backfires

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Close-Knit Communities Put the Individual First

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Bitcoin Cynics Are on the Wrong Side of History

“If you’re stupid enough to buy [Bitcoin], you’ll pay the price for it one day.” – Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, 2017 On March 10, 1876, a new invention ...

Food Deserts Don’t Cause Dietary Inequality

Nutrition and obesity have become a larger focus of health research in recent years. Multiple studies have identified areas, termed food deserts, that have a pa...

Warren Buffett Won a Decade-Old $1M Bet

In 2007, Warren Buffett challenged finance professionals in the hedge fund industry to accept a bet that Buffett described in his 2016 letter to shareholders of...

There Is No Proof that Mandatory Rehab Helps Addicts

The Wall Street Journal reported December 14 on a proposal by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker to mandate the involuntary 72-hour detention of opioid overdo...

Employee Perks Are the Upshot of Prosperity and Competition

In 2017, the popular jobs and recruiting website Glassdoor listed some of the more generous corporate perks on offer in the workplace. Ikea offers up to four mo...

Price Is the Only Language that Everyone Speaks

Open, competitive markets have a resilient capacity to successfully coordinate the actions of billions of people around the world. With an amazing adaptability ...

Export-Led Growth Is Just a Fallacy

A fruitful discussion this morning with my Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold prompts me to observe that “export-led growth” makes no more or less sense tha...

Kingsman’s Take on Drug Cartels Is More Fact than Fiction

Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the sequel of Kingsman: The Secret Service. Full of uniquely stylized action scenes, deadly technology, and eccentric villains, t...

Negativity is Natural but Life is Amazing

At the end of last year on CapX, I documented the constant stream of technological, scientific and medical breakthroughs that are improving the lives of billion...

The Fight For Freedom is Far from Over

Socialism has crippled nations and impoverished their citizens. The evidence is clear. Yet, despite this, lots of people in the United States, the United Kingdo...

What Nationalism Really Is (and Why It Matters)

From President Donald Trump to the rise of new nationalist political parties in Europe to a general resurgence of the term in recent years, nationalism seems to...

Socialist Academics Contributed to the Rise of the Third Reich

Throughout the last three chapters of F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, I have found myself questioning whether I am still reading the same book. In chapters 1-...

Brexit Britain Must Embrace Free Trade

Just over a hundred years ago, in the early years of the 20th century, tens of thousands of people gathered at a series of rallies. Their cause was free trade; ...

Power and Predation

Over the past week, much of our nation’s political discourse has centered around allegations of rape and sexual misconduct. First, Republican Senate candidate R...

England Inches Down the Road to Serfdom

Hayek has spent the last few chapters of The Road to Serfdom explaining the roots and rise of totalitarian governments. In chapter twelve, Hayek highlighted pro...