By Kerry McDonald This tumultuous back-to-school season has parents and teachers alike scrambling to make sense of the madness: from ever-changing district directives to COVID-19 response protocols. Some school systems have announced that the academic year will start with remote-learning-only. Others are pursuing partial reopening options with both online and in-person … [Read more...] about “Pandemic Pods” Make Homeschooling Easier For Parents and Profitable for Teachers
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship and the Human Experience
By Ethan Yang Robert Mulligan, in his book Entrepreneurship and the Human Experience, takes on the noble task of contextualizing and humanizing the way we view economics, particularly the essential role of entrepreneurs. The book moves logically through a series of important and complementary topics. Those include a lesson in basic economics, an introductory explanation of … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship and the Human Experience
If Summer Teen Jobs Are Hard to Find, Try Entrepreneurship
By Kerry McDonald As coronavirus lockdowns have weakened the US economy this spring, causing business closures and layoffs, teenagers are particularly hard hit. According to The Wall Street Journal, the teen unemployment rate is the highest it’s been since at least 1948. Widespread shut-downs in the restaurant and hospitality industries have affected entry-level and … [Read more...] about If Summer Teen Jobs Are Hard to Find, Try Entrepreneurship
The Devastation Wrought on Small Business
By Taleed Brown The coronavirus lockdown – the costs of the virus itself are dwarfed by comparison – and its consequential damage to the world economy has been shocking. Whether you’re a blue collar worker pushed out of work by tyrannical governors and the media’s incessant provocation, or an upper class retiree whose assets rest on the Fed’s hyper aggressive influx of … [Read more...] about The Devastation Wrought on Small Business
Entrepreneurship in the Time of COVID-19
By Per Bylund Per Bylund, author of The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives has commented extensively here at mises.org, and in a variety of entrepreneurship-focused publications, about the economics of entrepreneurship. Editor Ryan McMaken recently asked Professor Bylund to comment on what challenges entrepreneurs face right now … [Read more...] about Entrepreneurship in the Time of COVID-19
Is Congress Going to Bankrupt the Mom and Pop Landlord with This New Bill?
By Diane Kennedy Mom and pop landlords, defined as real estate investors who own 10 or fewer properties, own about half of all rental units nationwide. And, according to CoreLogic, a real estate data company, the number of small investors is growing. In 2018, they were responsible for 60% of all purchases, as compared to 48% in 2013. Let’s get clear on who the target of … [Read more...] about Is Congress Going to Bankrupt the Mom and Pop Landlord with This New Bill?
How to Unfreeze the Post-Pandemic Economy
By Darcy Allen and Aaron M. Lane Right now, economies around the world are frozen in an attempt to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments have pulled every policy lever to keep it that way, for the time being, to limit the spread of the virus. Many people think that the economy will be unfrozen just like we would turn a machine off and on again. But, unfortunately, … [Read more...] about How to Unfreeze the Post-Pandemic Economy
Two Things That Can Rescue the World When the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over
By Vincent A. Puccio It is difficult to know what the fallout of the COVID-19 crisis is going to be, especially since the toll in human life is, at this point, unknowable. The response has generally been to quarantine people at home and bring their daily lives, including work, to a dead stop. To mitigate the economic pain this will cause, the US government has passed a … [Read more...] about Two Things That Can Rescue the World When the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over
Business Owners Understand Why the Economy Can’t Just Be “Reopened”
By Christopher E. Baecker My oldest turned seventeen last month. To commemorate the occasion, she and I watched Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I’d taken her to her first (allegedly) rated-R movie a couple years ago to see the quite good Baby Driver, but this was Tarantino. Brad Pitt won an Oscar for portraying Cliff Booth, the personal stuntman for Leonardo DiCaprio’s … [Read more...] about Business Owners Understand Why the Economy Can’t Just Be “Reopened”
The Essentialness of “Non-Essential” Businesses
By Amanda Snell A few months ago it may have been difficult to imagine a world where going to work, operating a sit-down restaurant, or engaging in business with consenting individuals was punishable by law. Where going to the gym or getting a haircut wasn’t newsworthy or hypocritical. It would have been almost inconceivable that any elected official would tell their … [Read more...] about The Essentialness of “Non-Essential” Businesses
The Entrepreneurial Advantages of Building Human Capital While Young
By Raushan Gross While you were young, did you gain knowledge and learn skills that gave you the human capital necessary to become an entrepreneur or a small business owner? Human capital consists of the knowledge and habits developed as a youngster that form skillsets that later in life can be used in the business world. These skills are developed either through the family … [Read more...] about The Entrepreneurial Advantages of Building Human Capital While Young
“Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy
By Martha Njolomole “Since its founding in 2008, Airbnb hosts across Africa have earned more than $400 million in direct income from renting out their properties via the service.” - Reuters, 2018 When safari guide Goodwin Ndosi first heard the word “Airbnb,” he thought it was a person, not a business. “I don’t know him, who is he?” he asked. After learning more, he was … [Read more...] about “Uber for Everything” Is Revolutionizing Africa’s Economy