Bureaucracy and Regulation

In the bizarro world of student loans, someone can borrow six figures without collateral or credit history—and then demand that taxpayers cover the loan.

Anticapitalist politicians claim intervention can "level the playing field," but when we look closely, we realize that government itself creates the imbalances.

Can private markets only be regulated by government? Hindenburg Research's successes against corporate corruption suggest otherwise.

The US government's push for digital money does not aim to make transactions easier. Rather, it seeks the power to control money and the people that use it.

Is the Ohio train disaster an example of "capitalism gone amuck"?

Americans spend billions of dollars on treating heart disease. Prevention is cheaper, but thanks to perverse government incentives, preventing heart disease takes a backseat to medical spending.

The Biden administration wants to bring back a New Deal relic aimed at putting the old A&P grocery stores out of business. The law is anticonsumer and antientrepreneur.

In the name of "economic development," San Antonio's government is seeking to seize a thriving business near the Alamo.

One of the modern progressive buzzwords is "stakeholder capitalism," in which people with no direct connection to a firm somehow have a "stake" in what the firm does. It is an incoherent term.

Three years after the covid virus hit the world, we are just starting to take a hard look at the damage caused by the covid restrictions. The "experts" not only were wrong; they were scandalously wrong.