What Is or Should Be the Law?
It seems that the president is frustrated with Congress. What kind of legislature is this, he asks, that fails to immediately enact the will …
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Throwing Out the Old
Two years ago, I was the soul of generosity. I had culled through my sizeable collection of CDs and found 30 discs that I …
The Economy Is Us: A Tribute to John Papola
For many people around the world, the first they had ever heard of the great economist Friedrich A. Hayek came from a rap video. …
The Great Lawn Mower Hack
The functioning of millions of our consumer products has been wrecked by government regulations in ways that are extremely hard to detect and difficult …
Wal-Mart, Victim of Extortion
To do serious business in America requires vast campaign contributions to several layers of elected politicians, an army of lobbyists in Washington, retired government …
The Secret History of the Club (Part 1)
“Launch” has been the watchword this week in the world of Spy Briefing Books. It’s been on everyone’s mind since the brilliant idea of …
Money and Finance as if You Mattered
During the 2008 credit crisis, a horde of central bankers, Treasury officials and large corporations screamed that the end of the world was upon …
The Bizarre World of Plastic Fees
Most everyone is really down on financial companies these days. What kind of scam are they running, anyway? It seems as if everywhere we …
Despair and the State
The sad and tragic story of Andrew Wordes — the chicken farmer who was driven to despair by government harassment and killed himself last …
How Regulators Wrecked Our Mowers
When I was a kid, lawn mowers worked. You pushed them and they cut grass. The grass went into the bag. Then you emptied …