Crypto v. Gaia
It’s a given that governments dislike things that challenge their authority. Cryptocurrency, and Bitcoin in particular, is a case in point. One of the charges thrown at crypto’s feet –…
The FDA continues to fail the American public
The Food and Drug administration’s role in approving vaccines to combat the coronavirus shed a new level of scrutiny on the critical government agency and its gatekeeper role in America’s…
How to waste hundreds of billions of dollars, the Biden way
The president is busy touring the country trying to sell the public on the recently-approved infrastructure bill…the measure he hopes will blunt what could be a GOP wave in the…
A GOP alternative to ending marijuana prohibition emerges
Congressional Republicans have largely ceded the ground on ending marijuana prohibition to Democrats…who promptly failed to get something done. Now comes a new GOP proposal from South Carolina Rep. Nancy…
The NIMBYs behind the supply chain fiasco
There’s still a great deal of handwringing over clogged supply chains that threaten to make Christmas a little less bright, and the economy as a whole a lot less productive….
Human ingenuity trumps statist mandates
While the United Nations meeting in Scotland recently ended with promises of cuts in carbon, reductions in fossil fuels, and wealth transfers from rich to poor nations, the real work…
Hiding behind food price inflation: government taxes
Price inflation has a lot of ingredients. But one that doesn’t get enough attention, but is a contributing factor behind those higher food bills, is government taxes. As Reason’s Baylen…
No surprise: inflation will be an issue in the 2022 elections
Spiking prices for food, fuel, housing and a lot more have a way of shaking up the political world, and this recent spate of inflation data is no exception. And…
When all else fails, blame price gougers
Call it a sign that the Biden administration is desperate to change the narrative on rising gas prices, or call it economic illiteracy, either way, the president’s demand that the…
Biden’s union-only EV push
The big social spending bill Congress is debating has a long list of potential winners and losers – if we assume “winning” includes getting a massive federal subsidy. Subsidies for…
How Congress plays favorites
The bipartisan congressional war against its current favorite bogeyman – Big Tech – has told us a lot about the politicians waging it. While some are simply out of their…
L.A.’s war on ketchup
Few local politicians are able to keep up the fight to save the planet and stay on the bleeding edge of performance art legislating. But in Los Angeles, the local…