Peter Jacobsen

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Deregulate Medical Licensing

FEE has published several articles over the years on the dangers of occupational licensing regulations. In short, occupational licensure imposes…

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Would Guaranteed Income Help Families?

Last October, I reported on a study that gave participants $1,000 a month and measured the impacts of the transfer.…

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The Student Loan Interest Pause Finally Ends

The last holdouts of Covid-era student loan programs will have their interest reinstated in August 2025. In March 2020, President…

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Game Over for Ownership?

A movement is growing in Europe about consumer protection in the video games industry. A citizen’s petition in the EU…

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Trump’s Unrealistic Demand that Walmart ‘Eat the Tariffs’

Recently, a post from President Trump on Truth Social went viral. An attempt to convince retail giant Walmart to keep…

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High Interest Rates Are an Opportunity for Education

For most of my adolescence, interest rates were near zero. In fact, even certificates of deposit (CDs), which boast higher…

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Sorry, Harvard. There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Free’ Grant

America’s most prominent university, Harvard, is now fighting the Trump administration. This conflict marks the latest episode in what appears…

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The Irony of ‘Nobody Elected Elon’

Democrat lawmakers have been rallying behind a simple slogan in opposition to DOGE (the “Department of Government Efficiency”): “Nobody elected…

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Why Jobs Don’t Justify Government Spending

My colleague, Maggie Anders, recently made an insightful post on X. As Trump begins to shutter government bureaus (or at…

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How Hobbies Can Save Us from Over-Specialization

As we roll through the middle of February, we’re getting to the point of the year where most people start…

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