Tesla, Car Dealers and Milton Friedman: The Problem of Protectionism and Cronyism
Last week at Forbes, I wrote about an attempt by Missouri car dealers to prevent electric car manufacturer Tesla from...
It’s Difficult To Compete With Free
If it were your decision and you could select any type of school, what type of school would you select...
Education Establishment’s ‘All Or Nothing’ Approach May Kill Transfer ‘Fix’
The Kansas City Star recently ran a piece with the headline, “Private school provision could doom Missouri student transfer bill…”...
Public Schools Do Not Serve All Students
As first appearing in Education News on October 22, 2013: One of the great myths in education today is that...
Tear Down The Wall Between Public Dollars And Private Schools
As first appearing in the Education News on August 14, 2013: Growing up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods...
Opposing Tax Cuts, Supporting Bigger Government, And The Wisdom Of Milton Friedman
Few economists of the 20th Century had as wide and substantive an impact on the political discourse as Milton Friedman....
Common Core: A Well Intentioned Disaster
Dr. James Shuls on Common Core as originally reported in the Show-Me Institute’s June 2013 Newsletter: Milton Friedman once...
February Book Club Recap – The Road to Serfdom
Drawing done for the February book club meeting by former SMI intern Mary Chism Last night was obviously Snowmaggedon, and...
Education Saving Accounts: What Are They?
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune published an op-ed I penned and I would like to expand here on one...
Real School Shopping
August has arrived and that means many families will begin their back-to-school shopping. Typically, this means buying the right folders,...
School Choice and Individual Freedom: Advancing the Ideas of Milton Friedman
Once again, the Show-Me Institute joined with other organizations in celebrating the life and legacy of Milton Friedman on the...
Kansas City Should Expand, Not Remove, Land Taxes
The Missouri Record just carried an op-ed on land taxes by Prof. Joe Haslag and me regarding the choice next...
School Choice And Individual Liberty
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once remarked: “The true test of any scholar’s work is not what his contemporaries say,...
Kansas City Land Tax Should Be Expanded, Not Eliminated
It is a bad idea to eliminate Kansas City’s land tax. Almost every economist sees the advantage of land taxes....
The Job-Killing Effect of the ‘Do Something’ Mentality
The big news last week was a dismal national jobs report. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, there was...
SLU and Mizzou Economists Weigh in on Aerotropolis Jobs Estimates
Saint Louis University professor Dr. Jack Strauss and University of Missouri-Columbia professor Dr. Joe Haslag (also Show-Me’s chief economist) have at...
Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan: An Enduring Relationship
Early in the morning on July 29, 2011, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund spoke to a large and enthusiastic...
Needed: An Alfred Kahn for Health Care Reform
In the annals of progressive thought, there was a fleeting moment when Ted Kennedy, Ralph Nader, and other left-wing icons...
Kevin Chavous and David Levine Commemorate Milton Friedman
School reform leader Kevin Chavous and economist David Levine speak at the Show-Me Institute's July 31, 2009, event commemorating the...
Private Investigators Can Go to Jail if They Don’t Get Their Licenses
Missourinet has the scoop on the recently installed requirements for licensure of private investigators in Missouri. I remember when the efforts to...
