Single Payer Economics Don't Work

"Any sensible reform of US healthcare must confront the problem that the consumers of healthcare do not have sufficient incentives to control costs. A California single payer system doubles down on this issue because it would eliminate virtually all incentives by consumers to control costs.

The Nature Of EPA Meddling

A look at a Richard Epstein piece on the EPA and the nature of its meddling.

Socialized Medicine Kills A Youth Named Alfie

Britain's National Health Service is killing a baby named Alfie and has bullied the boy's father into accepting it. This is socialized medicine in action - they control you and you have no right to object.

The Myth Of Canadian Health Care

The myth of government-run health care always cites Canada as an example of success. In fact it is a failure, with Canadians paying far more than they're supposed to and get less than they're supposed to - the iron law of government intervention in market forces.

Facebook's Crony Capitalism

Mark Zuckerberg runs Facebook and after the Cambridge Analytica "scandal" - it was simple advertising research - was grilled by a Congress that showed it has no idea how Facebook operates, a Congress that has "never produced anything valuable in their lives and are in the business of using force to achieve their ends" Zuckerberg welcomed government meddling in Facebook, continuing the dubious tradition of crony capitalism.

Government Needs To Relearn Austerity

Government insists on spending - and is borrowing yet another trillion dollars to do so. When does it figure out it needs to stop?

Betsy DeVos Attacks The Bureaucracy Of Education

Betsy DeVos is attacking the core problem of her department - the fact that Washington refuses to admit it never knows better.

When Government Was Not Good

A new book falsifies the post-World War II period before 1981.

Marin County Exposes The Wreckage Of Government Intervention

In Marin County, CA, the usual spate of left-wing regulations in the name of the environment have done nothing for anyone.

The Fossil Fuel Lawsuit Scam

Mayor De Blasio of New York City filed a stupid lawsuit against five oil companies for nonexistent climate damage. Fossil fuels never were a threat to anyone.

The Fighters For The Myth Of Net Neutrality

Donald Trump's FCC ended net neutrality - the regulation of the internet by government, which by definition is NOT neutral. The tech giants of Silicon Valley who fought for net neutrality did so only because net neutrality established a monopoly they controlled and felt entitled to tell everyone what to think.

FDA's Attack On Biochemistry

A necessary program of genetic engineering has been ruined by the Envirnnmental Protection Agency

Housing Regulation Equals Shortages

It's the oldest fact of economics - government intervention in economics produces shortages. California refuses to learn, and botches housing as a result.

The CFPB Technocracy

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a dictatorial technocracy that refuses to be accountable, and it was built that way.   That the hacks within are fighting assertion of legitimate authority shows why it has to be killed.
Also worth looking at is the troubled legacy of Dodd-Frank.

Attacking CFPB Works, Part II

The Democratic Party narrative about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is - as always - a fraud - just like Liz Warren.

Puerto Rico And The Jones Act

Puerto Rico has long been more poorly governed than the Cleveland Browns, and a grossly outdated law - the Jones Act of 1920, a gross act of protectionism - goes a long way toward explaining why.

Attacking CFPB Works

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has never done much "protecting" and it now gets reigned in by Trump. Now it needs to be killed outright.


UPDATE November 27: Trump has the law on his side while the Democrats - as usual - jerk everyone around.

London Attacks Market Forces

By attacking Uber, London once again shows that government regulation solves nothing.

Who Pays With Single Payer

Single payer health care - aka cartelization by government - makes everyone pay for something that doesn't work. And the same thing happens with the idea of Medicare for everyone.

Taken for a Ride in Austin

Austin's attempt to regulate ride-sharing services has - as always happens when government interferes in the market - blown up in its face.

On May 29, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a law creating a statewide regulatory framework governing ridesharing services. The impetus for the law was clear—overriding the city of Austin’s onerous ordinances that prompted the sector’s leaders, Uber and Lyft, to stop operating in the state capital last year.

In the few weeks since Uber and Lyft returned to Austin, the results speak for themselves. RideAustin, one of the more popular local ridesharing services that popped up when the big guns left, saw its ridership plummet 62 percent. “One element that we routinely hear, of course, is that we are more expensive than Uber/Lyft and this is the No. 1 criteria for many riders,” RideAustin noted in a Facebook post. “As a result, we are now going to match Uber/Lyft mile/minute pricing.” Another service, Fare, announced it was abandoning Austin altogether rather than try to compete.