Introductory

We can have a competitive marketplace if government will just get out of the way and stop erecting barriers to creating new businesses and new competitors for established companies.

Europe may turn to "helicopter money" as an easy solution. The problem of deciding who gets the money isn't quite so simple.

The ruling class of the euro zone has slightly backed off its plan to end use of the $500 note immediately.

Why stop with Jackson? Let's ditch all the other politicians on US currency also.

Target may have increased starting wage levels within their company, but only a government can create and enforce a "minimum wage."

Unfortunately for us, James Grant is right.

Most Americans today are now reflexively progressive, meaning they want government to do something, rather than reflexively libertarian.

Bernie Sanders wants to make the postal service into a bank. It has been tried before.

Following the unconventional monetary policy of negative interest rates, central banks are now considering an even more desperate measure: "helicopter money."

The way that government collects taxes is awful. The process of spending it is even worse.