Government failure and the FDA
When the history of the coronavirus pandemic is written, a chapter or three will have to be devoted to government failures. Not just the usual ones about messaging. But the…
King Coal isn’t dead yet
The road to an all-renewable energy future is still filled with potholes, as there now appears to be a shortage of that most hated of all fossil fuels, coal. Coal…
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…
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…
Crypto’s hard lesson in official Washington’s ways
The Senate’s trillion-dollar infrastructure bill contains several measures that are supposed to pay for at least a portion of the spending on roads and bridges. Among those items is a…
Mr. Biden’s ‘shocking ignorance’ about business
President Biden’s executive order calling for more government involvement to stimulate private sector competition has quickly become a ripe target for advocates of limited government and free markets. It’s not…
Federal Red Tape Continued to Grow in 2020
The federal government never stops issuing new regulations, adding thousands of such rules every year. How many new rules were imposed in 2020? The Competitive Enterprise Institute notes that there…
The big CON That Caps Hospital Beds and Health Care Resources
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. One of the major worries about the COVID-19 outbreak is that local hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients, leading to shortages– and rationing…