Big Government

While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.

It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.

F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom was published eighty years ago. Critics then called Hayek a “reactionary.” Today, he is looking more and more like a prophet.

Responding to an overwhelming groundswell of grassroots pressure, Gov.

Despite court rulings, Biden is trying to do end runs around the law in an attempt to buy votes with his student loan cancellation schemes. His actions, not surprisingly, are illegal, but don’t expect any arrests.

According to mainstream economists, the question of whether increasing the minimum wage also increases unemployment is empirical. However, the logic of economic analysis says otherwise.

In his recent State of the Union speech, President Biden called out private enterprise for what he calls “shrinkflation” and “greedflation.” If he wishes to know who is responsible for this phenomenon, he should look in the mirror.

Government parking policies create unnecessary shortages. Privatizing public parking not only would enable more efficient solutions, but also would make the system more fair.

Brazil’s carnival celebration is a huge event that also is heavily subsidized by government at all levels. Yet carnival would do very well if the subsidies were replaced with entrepreneurial investment.

While progressives tout foreign aid to poor countries as socially and economically beneficial, in truth it makes poor nations even poorer. Foreign aid is a poor substitute for free trade and free markets.