Interventionism

On behalf of all the thousands of consumers of publicly owned, government regulated, monopolistic utility companies from Texas to Oklahoma and Miss

What's truly ironic is that this alleged benefit is reduced when the government forces every business to raise wages.

People voting for the minimum wage indulge a fantasy that they are helping the hard-working down-on-his-luck adult minimum-wage earner who is struggling to support a family. Instead they are preventing the sweet, earnest but maybe-a-little slow kid living down the block from getting that first job, because his output does not reach the economic level required by a wage that government has set too high.

Unfortunately, the problem with antitrust regulation is not what we see, but what we don't see.

All those hoping to reap the inequitable riches from yet another highly inflationary year — a much less arduous task than that of creating real wealth or generating genuine income — will just have to hope he is right.

Coming across a mention of 3D printers in the

Virgin America’s Bid to Start Flights Denied by

The Chicago Tribune and The Columbus Dispatch are reporting a Washington Post story on the federal push to make the polar bear the first mammal to

Trick names of this sort corrupt the language and confuse thought. It would hardly clarify matters to call a handout a “negative deprivation” or having your pocket picked “receiving a negative gift.”

Jeff Tucker’s cold medicine post got me thinking.