Interventionism

In a recent issue of Greg Aharonian’s PatNews newsletter, he points out that it may be possible for patent law to be stretched to cover things like

Gary North's government trap or capture model provides an abundant set of predictions about how governments accumulate power and control over industries.

The human tragedy that produced the Lord of the Flies atmosphere in New Orleans was due to the fact that government had turned much of the Crescent City into an urban reservation via its welfare system, and when those who depended heavily upon that system for their sustenance found themselves on their own, they had no idea what to do or how to do it.

In the wake of two major hurricanes and the calls for federal intervention, we repost Vedran Vuk's classic 2006 article that detailed how by "doing its job," FEMA blocked economic recovery in New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

The New York Times has reported that California&

From the book What Has Government Done to Our Money? Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Bootlegger County, State of Mississippi, is as dry as a sandpile in a Saudi Arabian back yard.

People who favor having federal goons arrest undocumented workers and send them home imagine that this is a great thing for American culture and so

Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan: The Fed and War Finance (16 September 2006, University Club, New York, NY).

History reveals that prohibitions are indeed classic examples of the co-opting of public-spirited intentions by rent seekers within the political process, thereby explaining the existence of what at first appears to be irrational policies.