Interventionism

Regulators claim to guarantee equality of  information, but no market can live up to that standard.

MCI WorldCom and Sprint should be permitted to merge, regardless of what Washington regulators say. 

Government errors caused the problems and they still do. (Commentary by James R. Barth)
 

The long history of fiat money and the disasters it has left in its wake. (Column by Albert Friedberg)

How government-backed hysterias endanger the prices of stocks. (Speech by Tom DiLorenzo)

Why the US goes to war for Kosovars but tells the East Timorese to go jump in the Pacific.

The Fed has pumped up the stock market, setting in motion certain inevitable consequences. (George Reisman provides an Austrian perspective)
 

An examination of the premises in books by Stephanopoulos, Reich, and Morris, by Don Mathews.

When Janet Yellen, Clinton's chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, resigned her post, she said it was for purely personal reasons. But according to inside reports, the personal reasons included frustration at having to lie day-in and day-out. No matter what the economic data of the week, she was expected to give it a spin that would boost the president and smear his enemies.

Private subways-even though highly regulated, even though the fare was held to a nickel by government decree--fueled the expansion of the city. As lines were extended, neighborhoods and shopping centers grew around the stations. But by 1940, through rigorous regulation and through Communist labor unions that sabotaged private ownership, the subways were taken over by the city.