Consumer Sentiment Begins 2022 with a Drop
The final January results from the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers show overall consumer sentiment fell for the sixth...
Economics
Buy American? What Protectionists Get Wrong about Free Trade
Even many of those who are otherwise inclined in the direction of free enterprise have an Achilles Heel when it...
Bad History Leads to Bad Politics
On Jan. 5, Lindsay Chervinsky, a senior fellow at Southern Methodist University’s Center for Presidential History, tweeted a quote from...
New Covid Variant – Same Government Blunders
The first US confirmed Omicron variant infection occurred in California on December 1, 2021. By December 23, there were a...
Poll: Americans Oppose Amy Klobuchar’s Assault on Big Tech
Antitrust laws have fallen out of favor in recent decades, and there hasn’t been a successful monopoly persecution prosecution by...
Core Capital-Goods Orders Hold at a Record High Level
New orders for durable goods decreased in December, falling 0.9 percent following a strong 3.2 percent gain in November. Total...
What Glenn Youngkin’s State Mask Order Gets Right—and Wrong
This article is excerpted from LiberatED, a weekly email newsletter where FEE Senior Education Fellow Kerry McDonald brings you news...
Inventory Accumulation Boosts Real GDP Growth in the Fourth Quarter
Real gross domestic product increased at a 6.9 percent annualized rate in the fourth quarter, up from a 2.3 percent...
Weekly Initial Claims for Unemployment Benefits Fell in the Latest Week
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance decreased by 30,000 for the week ending January 22, coming in at 260,000...
Thomas Piketty Strikes Again
French economist Thomas Piketty became internationally famous with the publication in 2014 of his book Capital in the 21st Century....
Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten
Shortly after Christmas a Russian court ordered the liquidation of Memorial International, an organization founded by Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov...
Is College Education a Human Right?
It’s a common refrain from the left: “Everyone has a right to go to college,” or “Everyone has the right...
