Bureaucracy and Regulation

Calls for finding efficiencies in government by electing or appointing people to “run it like a business” are futile.

Every government law, regulation, or ordinance must ultimately meet noncompliance with jail cells and government agents with guns. 

At this point, the Postal Service is rapidly becoming little more than an income maintenance program for the 630,000 employees.

Powerful Manhattanites hand down the laws the rest us of New Yorkers must follow. Many lives and businesses are ruined as a result. 

Looking more like an old-school authoritarian regime, the US government now has the power to revoke your passport if you owe taxes. 

Profit-oriented business organizations that demand political conformity in the workplace are mimicking government agencies, and we must turn to Mises's book Bureaucracy for guidance.

Oddly, some libertarians argue that decriminalization is better than outright legalization. They're wrong. 

Government licensing hurts employment, reduces competition — and thus quality — and serves to line the pockets of the established firms who benefit.

Big banks like Deutsche Bank have the potential to take an entire economy hostage: When they get into trouble, they can drag everything down with them.

Obesity has skyrocketed since the government became involved in the food pyramid.