Busybody Regulators Set a New World Record
Thanksgiving week was a busy one, with new regulations ranging from potatoes to royalties. Meanwhile, the 2016 Federal Register, as […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Castro Undeniably Impoverished Cuba
Fidel Castro, the Communist Dictator of Cuba, has died at the age of 90. There have been those, over the […]
Bad Government Policy Begets More Bad Government Policy
One of the many frustrations of working in Washington is that politicians, when dealing with a problem created by government […]
The Pretense of Omniscience
The quotation of the day is from page 18 of Ronald Coase‘s and Ning Wang’s superb 2012 book, How China Became Capitalist (footnote […]
The Real Reason We Have Ethanol in Our Gas
To get enough votes to pass the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, Democrats led by Henry Waxman made a deal […]
Try to Feed the Homeless and the Food Police Will Bleach Your BBQ
The holiday season is officially upon us, which means Americans will soon be feeling extra charitable. However, while random acts […]
Tax Avoidance Is an American Tradition
Thanksgiving approaches, and our colleagues on the left (and some on the right), continue their prolonged apoplectic seizure over Donald […]
Protectionism Will Make America Poor, Not Great
President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric has proven bad economics can make good politics. Fortunately, after Mr. Trump assumes office, his […]
Don’t Blame Free Trade. We Don’t Have It.
“Trump has heaped scorn upon those Republicans who have worshiped at the alter of unfettered free trade.” – Joe Scarborough, […]
A Tax on Income Attacks Life Itself
The least of the problems with income tax is that it takes your money. The really big problem is that […]
The IRS Just Declared War on Bitcoin Privacy
The Internal Revenue Service has filed a “John Doe” summons seeking to require U.S. Bitcoin exchange Coinbase to turn over records about every transaction […]
Free Markets Empower Women Entrepreneurs
Mary Perkins is one of the few individuals in the UK who has amassed a billion-dollar fortune through entrepreneurship. An […]
The Bubble – SNL
SNL sketch creates “The Bubble” for the political left. In The Bubble, life continues for progressive Americans as if the […]
Megyn Kelly on Trump, Ailes (full interview)
Anderson Cooper 360 Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly sits down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss her feud with Donald […]
Immigration Controls Are Socialist
In the classical-liberal age of 19th-century Europe, there were no immigration controls. Here is how Gustav Stolper — a German […]
India’s War on Cash
This past Tuesday, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, made an announcement that the existing ₹500 and ₹1000 currency notes would […]
