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Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 07, 2025
Are tax cuts good for workers, businesses, families, and the economy? Should the wealthiest Americans also get tax cuts? Is there a “right” level of taxation? To answer these questions, Patrice…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Dec 02, 2024
Will there be $1,000,000 waiting for you when you retire? Not if you’re relying on Social Security, which is barely on life support. Can we mend this broken government program, or do we need an…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 10, 2024
What benefits the world economy more: government-imposed trade regulations or the free exchange of ideas and commerce? For Daniel Hannan, president of the Institute for Free Trade, freedom always…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 04, 2024
What is the only economic system that values freedom, lifts people out of poverty, disdains distinctions of race and creed, and draws us into productive networks of mutual dependency? Hint: it’s not…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jan 08, 2024
The years 1880 to 1900—coined the Gilded Age—was a period of tremendous growth for American industry and technology. Many also criticize it as a time of greed, corruption, and exploitation of the…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Aug 28, 2023
If the government gave people enough money to take care of their basic needs, could we eliminate poverty? Proponents of Universal Basic Income think so. Are they right? Would it really be that…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 05, 2023
Is social activism the only way to improve the situation for minorities in America? Alfredo Ortiz, the son of Mexican immigrants and the CEO of Job Creators Network, has a different take.
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jan 30, 2023
There are now eight billion people living on the planet. Is there enough room for all of us? Are we going to run out of food and other resources? Marian Tupy, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Aug 08, 2022
It’s hard to imagine how we could screw up higher education any more than we already have, but we’re about to—if we make sweeping student loan forgiveness a reality. How? To answer this question, we…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 11, 2022
Look for the source of a society’s collapse, and you’ll usually find the i-word (inflation) at its core. So what exactly is inflation? How does it work? Why is it so dangerous? And how does it affect…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 04, 2022
Small business is the epitome of the American Dream. It’s the reason why America became the richest nation in the world. After all, every successful big business started out as a small one. So in a…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jun 20, 2022
Few people have had as profound an impact on modern economics as economist Milton Friedman. His Nobel Prize-winning ideas on free enterprise resonated throughout the world and continue to do so.…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 23, 2022
As goes California, so goes the nation. This used to be said as a compliment. Now it’s a cautionary tale, and the country would be wise to heed it. Political commentator Michael Anton explains.
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · May 02, 2022
You can learn a lot about basic economics from great quotes. David Bahnsen, author of There's No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths, proves how true this is.
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Oct 18, 2021
What’s more important for a company: to make a profit, or to do “social good?” More and more companies seem to be focusing on the latter. But is that a good business strategy? And, what does that…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Oct 11, 2021
What happens when you spend money you don’t have? Everyone knows the answer to that question. But what happens when the government does it on an unprecedented scale? Sooner or later, all debts have…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Sep 27, 2021
Alexander Hamilton, the first treasurer of the United States, knew there was a better way for countries to become prosperous than by conquering others. What was his plan, and did it work? Dinesh…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 05, 2021
Homelessness is one of the most vexing public policy problems we face. If you live in a big city, especially on the West Coast, you literally face it every day. And every day, it seems to get worse.…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Apr 12, 2021
Capitalism has produced freedom and crushed poverty. Communism has produced poverty and crushed freedom. So why is there still a debate as to which system is more moral? Dennis Prager explains.
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Mar 15, 2021
How did one of the world’s poorest countries—China—become, in thirty years, one of the world’s richest? The answer is surprisingly simple and surprisingly powerful. China scholar Helen Raleigh breaks…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Feb 08, 2021
More and more, it seems people find it difficult to defend capitalism—even those who benefit from it most. But former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley takes a refreshingly different…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Feb 01, 2021
The cost of producing electricity has dropped significantly in the last decade. So why haven’t we seen those price drops reflected in our electricity bills? Charles McConnell, former Assistant…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Oct 26, 2020
What is the difference between free-market capitalism and democratic socialism? And which system is actually more fair and responsive to the needs of the people? Here’s a hint: names can be…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Oct 19, 2020
What’s the best way to protect the rights of workers? Let them determine their own job preferences, or mandate that companies provide them with certain protections? California has chosen to take the…
Videos · 5-Minute Videos · Jul 13, 2020
What happens when politicians decide they are in a better position than business owners to know how much workers should be paid? We don't have to guess. Cities like Seattle and New York have already…