Interventionism

There is no need to assume anything sinister is at work in the fact that women's incomes are lower than those of men.

Some are claiming that the attacks of September 11 triggered this latest economic slide, but all signs indicate that the U.S. economy already was in recession even before the attacks. 

Once again, we are back to trusting the government to protect us, even at a time when property owners are begging for the right to provide their own protection.

It is conceivable that stocks might have come back after September 11. But the meddlers in DC seemed to be doing everything in their power to drive it down and out.

No institution has a greater incentive to increase airline security than the airlines themselves, who have both property and paying customers to protect.

In a usual wartime situation, the government massively expands and then falls back only partially after it is over. The present circumstances, however, are even worse than wartime.

Charging $4, $5, or even $100 for a gallon of gasoline is not a crime; rather, it is a logical response to what buyers and sellers perceive to be the current market situation.  

Alan Bock's book, Waiting to Inhale, gives readers an inside look at the forces behind the movement to give medical patients access to the legal use of marijuana.

While government abuse and destruction does not usually garner enormous media attention, government's fervor to regulate is alive and well.

What happens when organized labor strikes against another union, and not against a private firm?