Economic Progress

Tonight the 2015 NFL season will kick off as the New England Patriots host their conference rival the Pittsburgh Steelers at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Win or lose, Patriots’ fans will have bragging rights beyond being the reigning Super Bowl champions: While Gillette Stadium accepted $72 million in public funding for construction, or 17 […]

Following recent calls to curb the unnecessary regulation of occupations across America, the Council of the District of Columbia yesterday moved to block proposed licensing rules for personal trainers in Washington, DC. The now-stalled regulations were written by the Board of Physical Therapy, an obscure licensing agency housed under the DC Department of Health. The […]

What motivates entrepreneurs? That’s the question being answered in a new white paper from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The study, conducted by economists G.P. Manish and Daniel Sutter of Troy University, examines the conflict between mastery-seeking, or the entrepreneur’s goal to produce a good product or service, and profit motive. Manish and Sutter’s […]

This past weekend, Charles Koch, chairman of the board and CEO of Koch Industries Inc., called for an end to cronyism, arguing that “business leaders recognize that their behavior is suicide, that it is suicide long term. To survive, long-term, they have to start opposing, rather than promoting, corporate welfare.” Mr. Koch’s remarks came Saturday […]

Stand Together Trust is pleased to announce the release of its latest white paper, an analysis of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. You can read and download the paper here. The charter for the Export-Import Bank of the United States recently expired in July, marking the third time the Bank has faced expiration since […]

On most occasions, an anniversary or birthday is cause for celebration. Unfortunately for the American people, the anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act is no joyous occasion. On July 21, 2010, Americans were given 2,300 pages of labyrinthine legislation intended to oversee a safer, more stable financial system. It was meant to curb the supposed excesses […]

This content is the opinion of the author and not necessarily representative of Stand Together Trust or Charles Koch. Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London. Kelo was an important property rights case, where Susette Kelo, and fellow New London residents, challenged the small Connecticut […]

Honest Enterprise, a project of Stand Together Trust, will premiere its latest film, Farming in Fear, at the Anthem Film Festival on July 11 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Farming in Fear tells the story of Martha Boneta, a young, idealistic woman who fulfills her childhood dream of buying and operating a small organic farm; but actions by a […]

Expanding Health Insurance Doesn’t Address Real Problem: High costs Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there has been overwhelming analysis on the impact of the new law, much of it on the cost to small business and families. Conventional wisdom behind the law says that millions of uninsured Americans cannot access health […]

It has been nine years since New Mexico taxpayers sank $212 million into a “spaceport” for billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flights and not a single flight has left the ground. Although Branson is confident a flight will take place later this year, the long-term profitability of the flights has been called into question. […]