The Week in Review: September 3, 2016
It has now become clear that in many ways the European Union is a cartel of high-tax governments.
It has now become clear that in many ways the European Union is a cartel of high-tax governments.
In Brazil, street food is an important source of income for poor households. So why is the government always interfering in the street-food economy?
Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.
In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was impeached this morning. Is there any hope the country might turn to freedom and free markets?
There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.
"Private" prisons are really just taxpayer-funded, monopolistic agents for the state. There is nothing free market about them.
Even in the face of a century of collectivist horrors, Republicans still can not win the essential "us vs. them" game.
Tom Woods and I spoke about the FBI and its origins, and why law enforcement is made more dangerous by the state's drive to manage our lives.
Americans enjoy one of the world's highest incomes levels. But their fondness for spending means they have have relatively low levels of wealth.