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Sandefur wishes to thank Tarren Bragdon of the Maine Heritage Policy Center for helpful research.

In its use of the baseball great’s name and image, Puerto Rico’s government is appropriating private property without compensation.

We must remember that the statistics do not support anti-capitalists. You can’t escape it; capitalism has a bad rap.

In the States, the New Deal became a political era. In Puerto Rico, it became an operating system.

A regulation may implement licensing reform, but it cannot quietly amend it.

The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper.

Americans are more positive toward capitalism than socialism, but the 54% viewing capitalism favorably is down from 60% in 2021 and near that level in most prior years. Americans remain more negative (57%) than positive (39%) toward socialism, with little movement in these attitudes over time.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we are referring to the minimum amount an employer is required to pay an employee for each hour worked. In other words, the minimum wage is not a maximum wage, nor does it necessarily represent the wage that every employer must pay in all cases.

Free-market capitalism remains the best system ever discovered for human flourishing. Yet political support for it is wavering— and that should alarm anyone who cares about prosperity and freedom.

Zohran Mamdani, the person who defeated Cuomo in the primaries and is now seen as a mayoral contender for New York – the beating heart of capitalism – recently declared in an interview: ‘I don’t think we should have billionaires.’