Economics

President-elect Donald Trump is a leftist. And it is important for advocates of capitalism to see—and to say—that he is.

The 2016 FEE-CISC conference, Capitalism: Unlocking Human Potential, involved 80 students thinking, questioning, integrating for four days.

Jim Brown reviews Ending Big Government: The Essential Case For Capitalism and Freedom.

Examines central banks and their ominous trend toward purchasing equities in corporations and thus crossing into ownership of the means of production.

The fundamental lesson to be learned from America’s declining economic liberty is not economic but moral: Freedom depends on egoism.

Pope Francis rails against capitalism; some religionists hopelessly attempt to defend it; Ayn Rand shows how to defend it properly.

Michael A. LaFerrara reviews The Forgotten Depression—1921, by James Grant.

The U.S. Treasury's scheme to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill is an injustice to Hamilton, a derogation of the country he founded, and another example of “identity politics.”

A review of Jim Collins’s Good to Great.

If everyone’s rights are equally protected under the law, it does not matter, morally speaking, that we do not earn or possess equal wealth. What matters is that everyone is free to live and produce and prosper in accordance with his own choices, efforts, and actions.