Antitrust Incentives for Legalized Looting
Antirust law creates huge financial incentives-for the people who file antitrust suits. Consider the case of Lloyd Constantine’s recent award of $220 million dollars as lead plaintiffs counsel in the Visa International Service Association/MasterCard Inc....In Government We Trust
What lessons should we have learned from last summer’s deadly and destructive hurricanes? The primary lesson is that we shouldn’t have much faith in a federal bureaucracy like the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). They amply demonstrated their...Political Corruption: Misuse of Government Power
The Jack Abramoff scandal has put political corruption front and center in Washington but this particular scandal, or even this particular kind of scandal, barely scratches the surface of corruption in government. It is not that all members of Congress, or even most...BOOKS: The Destitution of Pre-Capitalist Europe
What were the cause(s) of the high death rate in the first half of the century – and of its diminishment in the second half?
Where Science Ends and Faith Begins
Advocates of “intelligent design” are gearing up their fight to teach the controversial theory now that U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III has ruled that the religious-based explanation for the formation of the universe and human evolution may not be...Free Hand to the Mob
I both laughed and cried when I heard the United Nations was going to decide what to do about Iran [“Israel praises Europe’s plan to refer Iran to UN”, Jerusalem Post, January 13)]. I’m sure the neo-Nazi Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would just laugh....The Economics of Collectivized Medical Care
The rise in health care costs is exactly what one should expect from the government’s long-standing policy of collectivizing the cost of medical care.
