Legal System

The percentage of the labor force controlled by unions tends progressively to decline, writes George Reisman. Where the unions hold sway, companies cannot compete.

In the economy of India, you face a choice, writes Jayant Bhandari: obey the law and go out of business, or find ways around the law and make a profit.

The Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict against Arthur Andersen Company, writes William Anderson, but it came too late to save the firm.

The Supremes rules today (Kelo v.

The other day I somehow started thinking about various quirks in a private legal framework, and (unfortunately perhaps for you, dear reader) this i

This is a difficult issue. Most of the controversy is from Section One. What exactly does the first sentence mean? If the Fourteenth Amendment was in fact intended to bind the states to the Bill of Rights that the federal government could enforce, then it dramatically increases the police power of the federal government.

Interviewed by Jeffrey Tucker at the Mises Institute; June 13, 2005. 

The medical marijuana case decided June 6th (Gonzales v Raich, et al.) in favor of the government (6-3) was an easy slam dunk, writes D.T. Armentano. Still, there are many problems with the majority opinion.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed into law after the Andersen case was filed, gives the feds the powers they improperly used against Andersen.

We went from tariffs being the major source of federal government revenue to what we have today under the income tax and payroll taxes.