Starting with $500,000 in seed money from Charles Koch, Mr. Crane made the institute the nation’s pre-eminent libertarian think tank.

Nash’s 1976 book, “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945,” changed that. Originally published by Basic Books, it has been described by Regnery Press as “the unquestioned ...

Wealth quote of the day by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” Discover why focusing on true ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

Years ago, the great conservative economist Milton Friedman said Mexican illegal immigration across the border was a good thing. These workers, he said help the American economy. Friedman said illegal ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) Milton Police Department officers arrested a 21-year-old man on a second-degree murder charge after finding a man deceased ...

The school that produced Milton Friedman and 34 other Nobel Prize-winning economists is struggling to manage its pocketbook. The University of Chicago ran budget deficits for 14 years straight, ...

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Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals a day consisting of soup with meat, bread, coffee, ...

It is popular in economics to employ metaphors in order to provide support to a particular idea. For example, concepts like “priming the pump” through expansionary monetary policy. In another case, ...