There are many problems but the regulatory state is one of the main ones.
Efforts to centralize decision making by way of command and control destroy knowledge networks, kill off incentives to innovate, and risk destroying wealth. Recent examples are unfortunate reminders.
Fewer people are part of the labor force than at any time since 1979. A look at incentives helps explain where everyone went.
The economy should be growing much faster than it is, but government interventions have choked off the creative power of markets.
The IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups was only par for the course. All government actions are best viewed as political actions.
The sky-high price tag for the vice president's recent trip is only a symptom of the real issue: spending habits that keep federal outlays climbing, year after year.
Trivializing the United States's fiscal problems only makes it more likely that they'll have to get a lot worse before they get any better.
Raising the minimum wage is an attempt to repeat the same old command-and-control approach to increasing prosperity. To truly help people, government needs to remove barriers to hiring people.
Rahm’s Rule gives a whole new meaning to the term “crisis management.” It also helps us understand how opportunistic politicians can both establish and respond to crisis-based circumstances—ensuring that pork gets delivered to favored constituents while everyone else is distracted by the looming crisis. The rule forms a footnote to theories that help us understand the regulatory state
The U.S. economy is quickly approaching the point where there are more tax spenders than taxpayers, helping to produce a divided country.
A review of Allan Meltzer's Why Capitalism? by Bruce Yandle.
Too many policy boulders are being dropped in the water. One can hardly determine the effects of one before another one is thrown in the pool.
Maybe the banks do get it. Maybe, just maybe, we, the electorate, and our political representatives are the ones who don’t get it.
Industry support of legislation that imposes restrictions on output is commonplace, but one begins to understand this more fully after careful scrutiny of the lobbying process.
Since Cash-for-Clunkers is now officially out of commission, Bruce Yandle reexamines the life and death of the failed government program.
On Monday, June 22, with apparent satisfaction, President Obama signed the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. The law requires the FDA ...
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