The Wall Street Journal today reports that the World Bank will release a report tomorrow on business regulations that concludes that the less business is regulated, the healthier is the economy. But why wait until tomorrow for the report?: it’s right here . The report features an incredible array of data, all nicely assembled. The broad
Regulations are good for the economy, says the Bush administration, according to the CSM . “Looking at a variety of areas - education, energy, housing, health, labor, but mostly the environment - the Bush administration’s budget office reported to Congress that ‘the estimated total annual quantified benefits of these rules range from $146 billion
At the same time the US is getting a new $20 bill, Iraqis are getting a completely new currency. In the photo to the right, a worker for the US military in Iraq throws Iraqi 10,000 dinar notes into furnace to make way for the new US-approved currency. Click on the pic to supersize it and then see the complete slideshow, which features many
The country now suffers under the biggest spending and regulating presidency of the last half century, so the other party is now proposing an option, according to the NYT (yes, in a story running on the same day as the one linked by Klein ). Though disagreeing among themselves on finer points, the Democrats are united in believing in the urgent
A nice summary of the long-term trend on public trust in government, in the NYT : Trust in government peaked after the New Deal and World War II. It has declined since the war in Vietnam and Watergate. A New York Times/CBS News Poll has been asking Americans for a generation whether they think they can trust the government in Washington to do
The wealth of nations is mapped by their IQ (Times Online). The argument runs this way. High-IQ nations have higher standards of living while lower-IQ nations have lower living standards. IQ is heavily influenced by diet and health. Hence, prosperous nations should subsidize health and diet in less prosperous nations. Researchers (professors of
Having for years been subjected to the urban myth that Mises favored operas subsidies, I’m particularly interested in the point Gary North makes here : Should classical music be an exception to the principle of consumer sovereignty? Maybe you have heard the story that Ludwig von Mises once said that he favored privatizing everything except the
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