An award-winning up-and-comer in free enterprise thought leadership, Kristin Tokarev is a producer for John Stossel at Stossel TV. She enjoys covering topics in public policy, market trends, and individual liberty. Kristin earned a B.B.A. in economics and an M.S. in Business Analytics from Northwood University, where she served as a research scholar at the University’s Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. Since graduating, Kristin has mentored several Northwood University Freedom Seminar students by co-authoring monthly essays for Northwood’s online global platform, True North, and When Free to Choose, Northwood’s signature publication dedicated to exploring the importance of free enterprise.
New York City, the bastion of global capitalism, is on the verge of electing its first socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Many of his socialist visions for the metropolis fail basic economics. Worst of all is his proposal to freeze the price of rent. It ignores decades of empirical evidence that rent control harms the very residents Mamdani...
Anew civil war is brewing. Texas is redistricting its electoral map to help a few Republican candidates in 2026. Democrats in California, New York, and Illinois are threatening retaliatory manipulations of their own. How does gerrymandering work? What shall we do about it? In our Republic, voters are supposed to choose their public servants. With...
President Donald Trump gave the Left one more reason to call him a “fascist” by sending the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Some of Trump’s own supporters are also expressing their frustration with the measures, pointing out that the American Republic was founded in principled opposition to the use of standing armies to police its...
Last year, we celebrated 50 years of Friedrich Hayek’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. We also marked 80 years since the great Austrian economist published his global bestseller, The Road to Serfdom. The book came out during the rise of Clement Atlee in the United Kingdom and of Juan Peron in Argentina. Just as...
Less than seven weeks before the elections, the Federal Reserve decided to cut the interest rates aggressively – by 50 basis points. But inflation is still above its target. And the Fed has yet to receive distress signals from the labor, housing, or stock markets. So, what does that mean for you? The candidates? The...
The two most important lessons one can learn in economics are: “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and “Incentives matter.” In a world of scarcity, every choice we make has an opportunity cost. As rational beings, every one of us is trying to achieve the best outcomes under the current constraints. Frederic Bastiat...