Interventionism

The human cost of price controls on livers.

Can government really provide it?

Why they do and should rise on Valentine's Day.

Revising the history of the Great Depression.

The same old protectionist fallacies, back again.

The policy agenda of the Clinton administration is usually described as halting, pragmatic, and poll driven. But in its approach to the issue of medical insurance and the drive to socialize medical care, it has been systematic, principled, and highly strategic. The Clinton government is using the failures and internal contradictions of the welfare state to pursue a program of universal entitlements.

The government controls the money it spends.

Government corrupts markets when it bribes them to behave.

The public debate on Social Security is wildly off track. 

Unreconstructed Keynesians the world over are now calling for a "Global New Deal" ostensibly to put an end to the business cycle once and for all.