A recent NYT article posed the question "The Free Market: A False Idol After All?" No doubt, progressives and anti-market types joined in one Pavlovian chorus in ... Keep Reading
Government Intrusion
A “Stimulating” Piece
Russ Roberts on the wisdom of stimulus packages. My favorite bit: The money has to come from somewhere. If you raise taxes to fund the plan, the people who are taxed are poorer and ... Keep Reading
Take Our Landfills? Sue ’em
From NC SPIN: "Raleigh’s Waste Industries and three other companies who had been in the process of building mega-landfills in the state have filed claims amounting to $25 ... Keep Reading
N&O: Recession Coming, Get the Handouts Ready
This N&O editorial reports gloomy economic forecasting, which the writer(s) believes justifies shoring up the welfare state (read: expanding yet further). Of course, ... Keep Reading
The Hidden Consequences of Government Programs
Progressives are enamored of all the "good" that their beloved government goods and services seem to bestow upon society. Unfortunately, they suffer from the tunnel ... Keep Reading
More Non-Governmental Solutions to Sub-Prime
In another example of how increased government intervention is not needed in the mortgage lending market, the News & Observer has a story today about how credit unions are ... Keep Reading
It’s Getting Cold In Here
With the announcement late today that an agreement was near between the Bush Administration and Congress on a program to freeze interest rates of sub-prime mortgages to avert a ... Keep Reading
Affordable Housing: Even the Regulators Think There’s Too Much Regulation
I stumbled across an interesting document from 2002 produced by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Entitled "Barriers to Minority Homeownership," ... Keep Reading
For Moral Highground, Stand on Your Own Stack
To so-called "activists" looking to beat the drums for a tyranny the majority through new and more insidious forms of taxation, try pulling out your own wallets first. As ... Keep Reading
Government and Industry: One in the same?
Is government an industry? That’s the question I asked myself as I reviewed page fourteen of the State of North Carolina Workforce: An Assessment of the State’s Labor Force ... Keep Reading