Bureaucracy and Regulation

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Call Rent Control What It Really Is: Theft

Bureaucracy and RegulationPrice ControlsSocialism

Blog06/15/2023

Rent control is all the rage with progressives, with several states and localities trying to impose it. However, when people have their property effectively—and legally—stolen, there are long-term consequences.

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The GDPR Paradox: Empowering Government in the Name of Data Protection

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationDemocracyLibertarianism

Blog06/13/2023

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation supposedly protects people from government data abuse. In reality, it empowers governments.

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Default by Inflation Is the Real Drama in the Global Debt Market

Bureaucracy and RegulationThe FedInflationMonetary PolicyU.S. Economy

Blog06/12/2023

While the faux debt ceiling drama rages in Washington, DC, governments worldwide are defaulting on their debt via inflation.

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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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