Interventionism

The Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch are reporting a Washington Post story on the federal push to make the polar bear the first mammal to

Trick names of this sort corrupt the language and confuse thought. It would hardly clarify matters to call a handout a “negative deprivation” or having your pocket picked “receiving a negative gift.”

Jeff Tucker’s cold medicine post got me thinking.

I pointed out in There’s No Such Thing as a Free Patent that “The conventional defense of the

Wealthy team owners and their wealthy employees will be the only winners if the new arena idea moves forward.

The losers, once again, would be taxpayers.

It could become very difficult to get in the near future, if we see the political class follow up on the latest frenzy: “

An excellent piece by Michael Malone in the WSJ today (thanks S. Berger):

Public goods are a cover for coercion, and public high school football is a private good funded by someone else's tax bill. Don't believe otherwise.

I know nothing about the tire market but it seems clear that the unions

Indeed, global capitalism makes bureaus such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission even more unnecessary.