POLITICS

Scaling back deposit insurance, combined with a credible policy of putting failure costs onto their rightful owners, stockholders, instead of onto taxpayers is the proper solution to preventing mass bank failures.

Providing rights based on group identity is the formula for tribalism, tribal warfare, and injustice.

Faucism combines control over financial resources and information with a carefully cultivated cult of personality.

A government action against “junk fees” will result in the additional fees being bundled into a single, overall price, whether it’s a concert ticket, a new car, or some other item. Ironically or not, the opaqueness of blending all of those fees together makes it much easier to raise any or all of those fees over time.

President Biden is evading responsibility for the consequences of the anti-freedom, anti-development, anti-fossil-fuel policies he has supported.

How the federal income tax effectively created a penalty on individual control of medical and health insurance decisions that continues to this day.

Is capitalism to blame for climate change and the ills that the anti-capitalists accuse it of? To answer, we need to understand what capitalism is.

There is a role for the law in consumer data privacy, but for the most part, rather than looking for ways to regulate and punish, states should stay focused on actual violations of individual rights, such as when personally identifiable data is used to commit identity and financial theft.

This new “liberalism” of compulsive paternalism was and is, in fact, a false liberalism.

The goal of the systemic racism crusaders isn’t the elimination of racism.

FTX, founded in 2019 following Biden’s announcement of his bid for the presidency, by the son of the co-founder of a major Democrat Party political action committee called Mind the Gap, was nothing but a magic-bean Ponzi scheme. It seized on the lockdowns for political, media, and academic cover. Its economic rationale was as nonexistent as its books.

The advocates of “tenants’ rights” imply that tenants have rights that are separate and distinct from landlords and other individuals.

Profit-seeking employers qua profit-seeking employers are simply unconcerned with race. Their principle is: of two equally good workers, hire the one who is available for less money; of two workers available for the same money, hire the one who is the better worker. Race is simply irrelevant.

Will Colombia’s Gustavo Petro heed the lessons of Chavez’s Venezuela and avoid a similar fate?

A movement is underway to pressure the Biden Administration to waive global intellectual property (IP) rights to COVID vaccines developed in the United States.

A policy of unilateral free trade is analytically equivalent in its effects to a fall in inbound transportation costs while outbound transportation costs remain the same.

When politicians announce a new program or policy, they tell us of all the great benefits that will result.