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Jim Epstein

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  • The Daily Beast

Past articles by Jim:

The Victims of the Eviction Moratorium

A coalition of Chinese immigrant landlords in New York say they're on the verge of losing everything because of tenants who have stopped paying rent. → Read More

Facebook's Libra 'Cryptocurrency' Aims to Disrupt Payments. Bitcoin Aims to Disrupt Government Power.

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest venture won't compete with Satoshi Nakamoto’s project for undermining central banking, tyranny, and the financial surveillance state. → Read More

YouTube Won't Host Our Homemade Gun Video. So We Posted It on PornHub Instead.

Our video is awesome. But nothing in the First Amendment says YouTube has to run it. → Read More

3 Steps to Buy and Store Bitcoins Anonymously

This article is part of Reason's special Burn After Reading issue, where we offer how-tos, personal stories, and guides for all kinds of activities that → Read More

The 'Taxi King' Cooperating in the Michael Cohen Case Pleaded for a Government Bailout

"We want big poppa paying attention to us," Gene Freidman once told Reason. "I want the government...protecting me." → Read More

Does Fractional Reserve Banking Pose a Threat to the Economy? Watch the Livestream.

Economists Robert Murphy and George Selgin face off at the Soho Forum. → Read More

Philip Payton Jr.: The Crusading Capitalist Who Outwitted New York's Racist Landlords

Best known as the "father of Harlem," he was guided by the theory that free markets penalize bigotry. → Read More

Is Selfishness a Virtue? A Debate With Yaron Brook and Gene Epstein.

"We don't have to endorse Gordon Gekko's view that greed is good anymore than we believe that selfishness is a virtue," says Gene Epstein, former economics → Read More

Is Selfishness a Virtue? Watch the Live Debate.

The Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook vs. economist Gene Epstein. → Read More

Bitcoin Confuses Alan Greenspan

Mainstream economists were trained to believe that currencies need to be managed by central banks. So this new form of money is...hard to grasp. → Read More

Would the Poor Be Better Off Without Welfare? A Debate Next Week in New York City.

Neera Tanden from the Center for American Progress vs. Tarren Bragdon from the Foundation for Government Accountability at the Soho Forum. → Read More

Should the U.S. Unilaterally Abolish All Tariffs And Duties? A Debate on Free Trade.

Watch Don Boudreaux vs. Rick Manning at the Soho Forum. → Read More

Bitcoin Sends Elite Economists Into Glorious Fits of Confusion

Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite. → Read More

Liberals Are Freaking Out About Net Neutrality Because They Don't Understand Capitalism: Podcast

Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss sex scandals and net neutrality. → Read More

Should the U.S. Unilaterally Abolish All Tariffs And Duties? A Debate on Free Trade.

Watch Don Boudreaux vs. Rick Manning at the Soho Forum. → Read More

What Charles Manson Teaches Us About Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and Tax Reform: Podcast

Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss what's wrong with the GOP tax bill, Roy Moore, Al Franken, and...Aquaman. → Read More

Self-Driving Cars Will Make Most Auto Safety Regulations Unnecessary

Simplifying the rules could save lives on the highway. → Read More

Livestream of Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward Debating Capitalism Against Jacobin magazine in New York City

Reason's top editors go up against Vivek Chibber and Bhaskar Sunkara from the socialist publication. → Read More

Watch a Livestream of Nick Gillespie and Katherine Mangu-Ward Debating Capitalism's Merits Against Jacobin magazine Tonight at 7:30 ET!

Reason's top editors go up against Vivek Chibber and Bhaskar Sunkara from the socialist publication. → Read More

The Juggalos March on Washington

Juggalos protested a gang label given to them by the F.B.I. → Read More