Bureaucracy and Regulation

Ryan McMaken and Chris Calton examine the many ways that government intervention has driven up home prices and made affordable homes harder to find. 

The Atlantic recently published an article claiming that modern “food deserts” exist because the government fails to enforce a New Deal law meant to force up prices and stifle competition. Once again, we see how progressives push their economic illiteracy on everyone else.

State taxpayer dollars are used to keep several money-losing nuclear plants operating. Each nuclear plant should be viewed as a stranded asset, not needing a state subsidy.

The media is spinning the story as a political hot potato: can tariff increases make up for the future revenue losses from extending the income tax reductions from President Trump’s first term?

"The percentage of Americans who have confidence in higher ed has dropped from 65% a decade ago to the low 30s today."

"The government has been throwing money at higher education, and the response has been that a lot more people are going to college that otherwise may have found other pathways."

While state power has smothered French society for more than four centuries, the problem is becoming worse, as the government deliberately undercuts the market economy to “fight climate change.” The French will have neither cooler temperatures nor prosperity.

President Trump is levying high tariffs without consent of Congress, despite the fact that the US Constitution gives only Congress the power to set tax rates. It is time for Congress to stop redelegating its lawfully-delegated powers.

In a post-Cold War world, there is an opportunity to find useful insights among even the New Right that Rothbard loathed. James Burnham‘s The Managerial Revolution produced important points about the relationship of government and business.

Whatever the case, what the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act translates to is another example of an egregious overstep in government authority.