Most editorialists and pundits have labeled Jimmy Carter's presidency a failure, but his activities after he left office as a rousing success. The truth is that his successful deregulation efforts have left a positive and lasting legacy.
Beef prices are rising again because of government intervention in the monetary system and in regulation of the beef industry. As American beef consumption falls, the entire industry is in trouble.
Mainstream economists and the media “warn” us about the dangers of “income inequality.” But is income inequality really an economic and social problem, or is this yet one more false crisis ginned up by intellectual and governing elites?
The economy is stagnating, regulation has restrained the market from creating the growth that thrusts society onward, yet the government is asking the regulators how to create growth. You’d be better asking the axeman how best to survive with no head!
Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, is that it is a political entity, which means that political goals will determine its capital structure and hiring practices.
Every law or regulation carries an economic cost that cannot be ignored or precisely predicted, altering economic incentives and stifling innovation and entrepreneurship.
The main issue with the federal government’s attempts to regulate the environment is that—as with all things in which the federal government—there is a large degree of corruption, inefficiency, and overall impracticality inherent to their approaches.
If President Trump is looking for a federal agency to abolish, he needs to look no further than the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
California politicians are in a state of denial as deadly wildfires burn out of control throughout the state, the latest being in Los Angeles. Their denialism in the face of real facts shows that California politically has become La-La Land.
How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were trying to push the US in a direction of centralization, the Civil War completed the job. We see the results of those centralized outcomes daily.
