In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
Michael Chapman
Michael Chapman is a senior editor at the Cato Institute. His reporting has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Boston Globe, Investor’s Business Daily, Washington Times, National Review, and Congressional Quarterly. He earned his B.A. in English Literature, with Special Honors, from the University of Chicago.
Christians Fleeing Persecution Blocked from US Entry by Trump White House
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
Industrial Policy, Whether Republican or Democrat, Is Anti-Liberty
Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.
Killing Thousands of Jobs: California’s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Law
California’s minimum wage law for fast-food workers is, like any such law, a price floor; it is a price control on labor.
End NATO Expansion and Bring Americans Back Home
President George Washington was right then, and he is right now. Let’s end NATO expansion and bring the boys back home.
Trade Deficits Don’t Really Matter
Free nations as such don’t gain or lose from trade; only individual traders do.
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