Bureaucracy and Regulation

Alex Tabarrok joins Bob to break down Trump’s drug price executive order, price controls, and the real economics behind Big Pharma and healthcare innovation.

Homeschooled children are educated more effectively than public school students and at a fraction of the cost of public education. Naturally, the government wants to destroy it, with Illinois currently leading the anti-homeschooling mob.

With the recent collapse of air traffic control systems at Newark International Airport, air safety again is in the news. The problem is that the US ATC system is run on socialist principles. To fix this problem, turn to private enterprise.

While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may.

Progressive supporters of USAID claim that the agency does vital work overseas to provide medical care and other necessities for the poorest of the poor. Yet, a careful look at its record reveals that USAID often is a hindrance to the very people it claims to help.

While Trump has not yet turned to price controls to address America‘s absurdly high drug prices, Monday‘s executive order suggests that he soon may. Price controls would only worsen the problem with the drug market. Here are three things he can do instead.

Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to believe. The truth is that the case for defunding Amtrak has never been stronger.

With the deadline for obtaining the federal government‘s Real ID technically upon us, it‘s important to understand that this is not an irritating but necessary program to keep Americans safe. It's the latest example of the government using 9/11 as an excuse to grab more power.

The Trump administration announced that the IRS will end its free Direct File (DF) program that taxpayers have used on the IRS website to file their own tax returns.

As egg prices rise, the usual progressive suspects claim it is due to monopoly power by egg producers, calling for government intervention. However, the real reason is government intervention itself.