Bureaucracy and Regulation

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Licensing Laws Deepen South Africa's Electricity Crisis

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismMonopoly and Competition

Blog06/12/2023

South Africa is suffering from rolling blackouts and other power outages. These could be avoided if the government would permit competition in electricity markets.

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Fossil Fuels Enable Us to Better Fight Fires and Other Environmental Disasters

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe EnvironmentProgressivism

Blog06/10/2023

The latest round of wildfires in Canada has brought out the usual statist demands that we ban fossil fuels, but in the real world fossil fuels protect people from climate-related disasters.

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Rise of the Effete Authoritarians

Bureaucracy and RegulationMedia and CultureProgressivismThe Police State

Blog06/05/2023

Political leaders of the so-called liberal Western regimes are engaging in authoritarian tactics to quell legitimate dissent. But leftists who riot and burn get a free pass.

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Can We Understand AI? A Response to Jordan Peterson’s Podcast

Bureaucracy and RegulationFree MarketsLaw

Blog06/01/2023

All too often, when we see a new technology we don't understand, our natural inclination is to condemn it. Artificial intelligence is no exception.

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Overcoming Government Intervention in the Economy

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe FedU.S. EconomyInterventionism

Blog05/26/2023

As government regularly intervenes in economic and financial markets, both continue to deteriorate. We must understand the kind of damage government causes.

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Taxation as a Weapon against Prosperity

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomProgressivismTaxes and Spending

Blog05/25/2023

The current regime wants to use taxation not simply as a means to collect revenue for the government, but as a weapon against economic prosperity itself.

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Government Redistribution Is the REAL Trickle-Down Economics

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismProgressivism

Blog05/19/2023

President Biden recently claimed that "trickle-down economics" doesn't work but transferring wealth from taxpayers to politically connected people is the real trickle-down economics.

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Energy and Economic Efficiency: The Market versus the Politicization of Our Energy Futures

Bureaucracy and RegulationCronyism and CorporatismThe EnvironmentProgressivism

Blog05/17/2023

Radical environmentalists have convinced people that we are doomed if we continue to use fossil fuels. We are doomed if we stop using them.

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The Failure of Public Works and Public Funding

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomHayekCalculation and Knowledge

Blog05/16/2023

Shoddy service, regular breakdowns, and overbudget to boot. There is a reason why government-funded projects always waste resources.

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Rothbard’s Button Doesn’t Exist, but It Needs to Be Invented

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomEuropePrice ControlsWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

Blog05/10/2023

In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.

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