Health

Billions of tax dollars have been spent on scientific studies and public programs designed to tell Americans what to eat and how to be healthy. The experiment has failed, and we have nothing to show for it.

Medicine has gone the way of economics in preferring aggregates to specifics, although such methods do little to explain the needs of individual patients. On the other hand, the turn toward large-scale aggregation does help the government to centrally plan health care policy.

Those who want a higher minimum wage often claim it is necessary to combat a rising cost of living. However, these same people often support policies that raise the cost of living and drive real wages down.

The Supreme Court case of Michigan v. EPA illustrates how the law provides so many tools to federal agencies that their power is more or less unlimited. It's only a matter of finding which laws will stick, and the result is lawlessness.

Federal surveys that measure "food insecurity" are so hopelessly skewed, as to be useless. 

Mark Thornton discusses the future of marijuana economics.

If we want to lower the cost of health care, we should seek to increase the availability of health care services, including increases in trained me

If we want to lower the cost of health care, we should seek to increase the availability of health care services, including increases in trained medical personnel. Government, however, acts repeatedly to prevent the entry of more doctors into the marketplace.

Government intervention kills another small business

"Good news, everyone!" Mark Thornton discusses the positive results of marijuana legalization in Colorado.