Americans are constantly told that Europeans have wonderful medical care provided by their governments. In reality, private care is gaining ground because it provides better care and a better deal.
Americans have been fed the myth that US foreign policy from 1919 to 1941 was isolationist. In reality, US policies destabilized already volatile international relations.
Some small municipalities in Pennsylvania have disbanded their police departments, so others want to tax them for “depending” on state police. There is an even better course of action: allow private policing.
One of the canards of mainstream economics is that only government can provide the "optimum" number of nonrivalrous, or public, goods. Austrian economists have never accepted that theory.
Because California’s government has hamstrung electricity producers in the state, its legislature now wants EVs to be “bidirectional,” that is, to put power from their batteries back into the grid.
President Biden's new student debt "relief" plan will ensure that college graduates will seek low-paying, low-impact jobs. They would have done as well or better had they not gone to college.
