Let’s Fully Deregulate the Airline Industry
US airlines and their workers are motivated to get the government to protect them as a special interest group at a cost to consumers as a whole.
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The US Taxpayers Have Spent Enough on the War in Afghanistan
A crony-capitalist, semi-privatized war in Afghanistan, may be cheaper — but it's still an unwarranted occupation financed by taxpayers.
Government Guaranteed Income is Not a Solution
Henry Hazlitt's critique of Milton Friedman's Negative Income Tax remains relevant as libertarians continue to embrace Universal Basic Income.
Could Donald Trump Save the Internet?
The Trump's rejection of "net neutrality" is a loss for government regulators, but a win for the internet.
Fed Officials Can’t See What’s Right In Front Of Them
Why is it so controversial to suggest that we should leave interest rates and credit markets alone?
Maskin on Samuelson
Eric Maskin has made some extravagant claims for the significance of Paul Samuelson.
Wages and Subsistence
Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs are cruel but because they are subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers.
The Collapse of Penn Station: Another Failure of Government “Enterprise”
Without government, who would run the inefficient, crumbling, malfunctioning railroad "enterprise" that is Amtrak?
The US Government Punishes People for Helping Dying Children
The US government prosecuted an American man for trying to help the children that US officials were trying to kill with their sanctions.
Behind America’s Skyrocketing Overdose Death Rates
Thanks to over-use of prescription painkillers, many patients are becoming addicts who must later turn to illegal drugs to get their next fix.
