Interventionism

Douglas Carey explains economic anomalies such as electricity shortages, flight delays, and overcrowded roads.

Wendy McElroy decries the EU's attempt to legislate equal rights for women: it will bring about a new form of despotism, she warns.

From rolling blackouts to water shortages, California's troubles result from regulation, says Thomas DiLorenzo

Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.

Woodward reports that Greenspan himself was willing, on occasion, to do things that weren't strictly legal.

Cheer up. A drop in stock prices doesn't destroy wealth, say Robert Murphy and Gene Callahan. It only reveals a change in the marketability of one line of production against another.

These agencies were established to intervene in the rights and liberties of Americans. A good cabinet, writes Bill Anderson, would work itself out of existence.

History frowns upon the belief that government protects children's rights, and yet that is precisely the claim that undergirds child labor laws, now enforced in most parts of the world. Hardly anyone dares question their existence, much less the conventional history of child labor, no matter how many children and families continue to be victimized by government regulation of labor.

Medical Savings Accounts promised market incentives in health insurance. Congress didn't renew them, but Dale Steinreich argues they weren't so great anyway.

Production and price controls, not deregulation, are the cause of the state's energy miseries, writes George Reisman.