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.
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...