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Ease of Business Creation Key to Economic Success
Heritage Foundation’s Bill Beach on what some countries are doing to create more economic opportunities and spur innovation.
Spontaneous Order: Do We Really Need a Plan?
What is spontaneous order? How is it that without government direction, food is available in stores, cars are manufactured, information is available on the Internet, and people can get medical care? And what happens when government gets involved? This segment looks at the economics of spontaneous order.
Disaster Relief: Who Does it Better?
Who should help victims of natural disasters? Should citizens voluntarily help? Should government? Who is better at it? This segment looks at the role government and charity-based organizations play in providing disaster relief.
The Fed: Can It Be Trusted to Manage Our Money?
What is the Fed? Okay, it’s the Federal Reserve. But what is that? What does it do? What is its role? How does the Fed affect us and our money? This segment looks at the origins and impact of the Federal Reserve.
An economic benefit from counterfeit items
‘The Knockoff Economy’ co-author Chris Sprigman explains how counterfeit items impact the fashion industry and consumers.
California farm runs on the honor system?
Owner of Swanton Berry Farm Jim Cochran on honesty and running a roadside stand that is based on an honor system with no cashiers involved.
Ex-Im Bank a taxpayer subsidy for crony capitalism?
George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux weighs in on the U.S. Export-Import Bank and the U.S. economy.
Foreigners Are Our Friends
VIDEO DESCRIPTIONIn this Economics Made Easy video from our friends at Learn Liberty, Professor Bryan Caplan talks about "anti-foreign bias," and points out that most economists don't share these concerns. Professional economists think trade and immigration benefit...
How Economic Freedom Leads to Prosperity
Heritage Foundation’s Bill Beach on the factors that make some countries more economically free than others.
Football player turned restaurant owner: How did he do it?
Former NFL player turned IHOP owner Tyoka Jackson on government versus private sector jobs.
Entrepreneurs: Doing Good by Doing Well
What good do entrepreneurs do? Is it creating jobs? Is it the charity they do with the money they’ve made? Do successful entrepreneurs have an obligation to give back? This segment attempts to answer those very questions.
Should Government Nudge People Into Making Better Decisions?
Utah State University assistant professor Michael Thomas says “libertarian paternalism” is a contradiction in terms.
Free Market Medicine
Stossel special correspondent Kennedy on the benefits of medicine without the insurance companies.
I, Pencil
For more than half a century, Leonard Read’s classic story has opened eyes and changed minds by the hundreds of thousands, revealing the wondrous achievements of individuals whose contributions are coordinated by nothing more than incentives and market prices.
Is Price Gouging Bad?
Independent Institute Research Fellow Art Carden on the economics behind price gouging.
Job Creation Gone Wrong
Who creates jobs? And who creates jobs the best? Can the government help, or do government attempts to create jobs lead to inefficiencies and waste? Do government regulations help or hinder job creation? This segment looks at job creation and the role of government.
Income Disparity: Should Equality Be the Goal?
What is the problem with some people having more money than others? Would it be better if everyone had the same? What if we could make sure everyone earned the same amount of money as everyone else? What would happen then? This segment looks at income disparity in America.
Collaboration Leads to Innovation
Why has life changed so much over the past few centuries, after remaining relatively the same for hundreds of thousands of years? Why does it seem that changes occur faster now than in the past? How have our lives been affected by innovation? What does the future hold? This segment looks at the reasons for and results of collaboration and innovation.
Immigration
Why do people come to America? Isn’t America a cesspool of crass commercialism and greedy, materialistic people? What’s so great about America that while we criticize it and try to change it, millions of immigrants struggle to come here? This segment looks at the pursuit of happiness in America.
Free Enterprise and Income Inequality
Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management compares income inequality to income mobility.
If You Want America to Fail, Change Nothing?
Free Market America’s Ryan Houck discusses the impact of overregulation.
Stossel’s Currency Conundrum
Former Federal Reserve Economist David Barker discusses whether Americans should be able to print their own currency.
America: the Land of the Economically Free?
Ambassador Terry Miller of the Heritage Foundation discusses recent data on the state of economic freedom in the U.S.
Artists Against Capitalism
Radio host Lisa Kennedy and TV critic Glenn Garvin break down why musicians enjoy bashing the free market.
Why Does Hollywood Hate Capitalism?
Radio host Michael Medved argues those in Tinsel Town are hypocritical when bashing the business world.
Henderson: ‘Buy American’ is Nonsense
Economist David Henderson argues that we should buy the cheapest goods available to free up capital for further spending.
Does America Need Energy Independence?
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney and the Cato Institute’s Jerry Taylor on the link between oil prices, energy independence and national security.
Energy Independence: Fact vs. Fiction
The Manhattan Institute’s Robert Bryce and the Cato Institute’s Jerry Taylor argue the energy independence isn’t necessary because of the global nature of the oil market.
Government Programs: Help or Handouts
NYC Human Resources Administration Commissioner Robert Doar on the government’s efforts to help people find jobs.
Can Greed Work in a Free-Market Economy
Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes and AEI’s Arthur Brooks on the benefits of a free-market economy.
Wikipedia Defies Need for Regulation
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on the success of the self-edited encyclopedia.
Should We Privatize the Post Office?
Postal Service board of governors member Mickey Barnett explains why the Post Office is losing billions of dollars.
True Job Creators
Members of the “Job Creators Alliance” discuss how their companies have created jobs and helped boost small businesses in the U.S.
Taking Parks Corporate
Redevelopment consultant Dan Biederman and Shirley Kressel of the Alliance of Boston Neighborhoods debate whether private funding is the way to save America’s parks.
BB&T Chairman on Opposing TARP
BB&T Bank Chairman John Allison explains why he was opposed to receiving a government bailout.
Forbes: Create 17% Flat Tax
Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes argues we should impose a 17% flat tax to create a prosperous economy.
Are Millionaires Champions of Freedom?
Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes and BB&T Bank Chairman John Allison explain how rich people can be champions of freedom.
Daniels: Government Never Creates Jobs
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels discusses why we need to allow Americans, not government to revive America.
Johnson: I Did Not Create a Single Job!
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson on why he believes his anti-government governing style will help in his run for President.
Peter Schiff: Regulation is My Single Biggest Fixed Cost
Euro Pacific Fund CEO Peter Schiff on why government regulations restrict his company’s ability to expand and create more jobs.
Bison Saved by Private Ownership
Property and Environment Research Center’s Brian Yablonski on how private ownership helped prevent the extinction of bison.
Spontaneous Order Trumps Relying on Elites
Larry Reed of the Foundation for Economic Education, on the concept of spontaneous order and why it is a better strategy than relying solely on government leaders.
Rules, Rules, and More Rules
Author Jeffrey Tucker explains how the government is interfering with your everyday life.
Defending the Undefendable
The Cato Institute’s David Boaz and Reason Magazine’s Nick Gillespie discuss the benefits of child labor, insider trading and organ sales.
Does History Need to Be Re-written?
Thomas E. Woods Jr., author of "33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask," and Reason Magazine Writer Damon Root on the myths in American history.
The Real Story of Thanksgiving
George Mason University economist Russ Roberts on how the Pilgrims were hurt by sharing.
Privatizing Roads
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels on how his state successfully privatized a toll road that had been losing money.