Federal Reserve Inspector General to investigate officials’ trades for ethics breaches
The Federal Reserve’s inspector general will be conducting an investigation into the stock and bond trades of senior Fed officials to see if ethics laws were broken. According to CNBC,…
Ending the barriers to free markets in labor and talent
The federal government’s unemployment figures show the labor market is still unsettled. With the mismatch between joblessness and job openings continuing, the question of how to close that gap is…
Breaking the bonds of an imperial presidency
The drum beats of the 2022 and even 2024 elections is already rumbling through the land and with it come the cries from Team Red and Team Blue to get…
Proposed California ballot measure could set up a battle between teachers unions and education reformers
A proposed ballot initiative in California could set up a big fight between the state’s powerful teachers unions and education reformers. According to the Wall Street Journal, the proposed measure…
Biden’s commissar of the currency
The Biden administration has gone to great lengths to placate progressives who view the market economy with fear and loathing. But his designee for the office of Comptroller of the…
Inspector General again scolds FBI over its faulty FISA warrants
A report from the Justice Department’s Inspector General shows the FBI has real problem filling out the paperwork required for it to conduct secret wiretaps on Americans. According to Reason’s…
The staggering cost of endless wars
While President Biden wrestles with the fallout from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the task of calculating just how much money American taxpayers have spent on the two decade-old global…
The lawbreakers on the federal bench
Federal Reserve senior officials aren’t the only government employees with fresh ethics problems. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, more than 130 federal judges participated in court cases “involving…
Setting limits on our endless crises
There’s a saying that if everything is a crisis, then nothing is a crisis. Such sayings may be trite, but there’s a germ of truth to them. And a dark…
Supply and demand spur confusion inside the White House
Inflation tends to bring out the worst in government. Whether it’s the Nixon administration’s absurd effort at wage and price controls, or Jerry Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” buttons, or Jimmy…
Feeding the biggest monopoly of them all
Over the summer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that says it will marshal the forces of the federal government to spur a renewed burst of competitiveness in the…
Mummifying the economy to save the planet
Climate activists and government officials will gather in Scotland in November to chat about how to fight climate change, and setting aside how many tons of CO2 such a confab…