Banking Union Means the End of the EU But Not the Eurocrisis
For well over a century, the continent of Europe has tried to solves crises by introducing rules aimed at stopping that crisis from ever happening again, but all those rules have done is to sow the...
View ArticleTricks and No Treats
All the usual characters are present this Halloween night across the Atlantic. But European leaders doing the trick-or-treating aren't getting the sweet sugar fix they crave. My colleague Matthew...
View ArticleAfter a Storm, You Should Love Big Brother
With people picking up the pieces after Sandy, the usual suspects like the New York Times are arguing that a big storm requires big government to clean up. This isn’t true, as I argue over in Forbes...
View Article<em>I, Pencil</em> -- Simply Perfect
"This is the modern world. It's miraculous, it's intricate, and it gets better every day so long as people are free to interact with each other. If we can leave the creative energy of humankind...
View ArticleDos and Don'ts of the Fiscal Cliff
My friend Andrew Moylan of the R Street Institute has an excellent short paper out that summarizes five dos and five don'ts of the fiscal cliff negotiations. The don'ts are all common sense stuff, to...
View ArticleRight To Work is More Libertarian Than the Status Quo
There's been a lot of fuss recently from respected libertarian thinkers like J.D. Tuccille and Jonathan Adler about whether or not right to work laws are libertarian. They are offensive to the...
View ArticleDeregulation as an Anti-Poverty Measure
We know that regulation costs - big-time, in fact. My colleague Wayne Crews estimates the cost of regulation to the American economy as around $1.8 trillion a year (and these costs are mostly hidden, a...
View ArticleFrackNation Premiere Tonight
Have you ever seen a water faucet burst into flames? You have if you’ve seen the documentary film Gasland, by Josh Fox. It’s the central message of his movie – that hydraulic fracturing for natural...
View ArticleI'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher
The vile outpouring of hatred against Margaret Thatcher from the British left that saw celebration parties (and violence) after her death was announced has now morphed into a campaign to get the Judy...
View ArticleThe Administration Is About to Upend American Business Practices
It is probably the biggest change in American employment law since the National Labor Relations Act and its reform in the 1930s and ’40s, but it could happen without the general public realizing it....
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