Intervencionismo

Rent control's cruelest irony: it makes discrimination cheaper. Joseph Salerno on the long-run effects of price caps that almost no one sees coming.

No, it isn't Blackstone, and the boomers didn't take it all. Timothy Terrell separates the housing myths from the real reasons you can't afford a house.

"Their red ink is your black ink." Jonathan Newman on what MMT leaves out; namely, how the government actually makes the payment.

The US has 20 to 30 million government regulations. Big corporations have legal departments. Startups have you. Mark Thornton on who the "regulatory thicket" is really built to protect.

Washington locked up timberland to stop deforestation, while taxing Canadian lumber, which meant felling more American trees. Timothy Terrell on conservation policy, and following the money.

The textbook model of "perfect competition" bans advertising, price cuts, and better products—the very things we mean by competing. Tate Fegley on why the mainstream picture of monopoly is upside down.

Tuition is up 1,200% since 1980. Enrollment is about to fall off a cliff. Peter Klein argues the real problem isn't any of the things people usually name.

We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves.

Los progresistas culpan al «cambio climático» de todos los incendios forestales recientes, pero el verdadero culpable es la mala gestión gubernamental de los bosques y praderas públicos. El reciente incendio en el borde norte del Gran Cañón es otro ejemplo más.

Los precios de la vivienda se han disparado en Irlanda, el gobierno ha hecho lo que suelen hacer los gobiernos con demasiada frecuencia: imponer controles sobre los alquileres. Estas intervenciones en el mercado inmobiliario han tenido efectos secundarios que siguen fomentando intervenciones.