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European Fiscal Crisis, Round 2?
A bloated welfare state is a drag on economic performance.
Washington’s Counterproductive Attack on Stock Buybacks
There’s a bipartisan effort to ban the practice.
Coronavirus and the Seventh Theorem of Government
More often isn’t better when it comes to government.
Coronavirus and Big Government
There’s an avalanche of reports on how bureaucracy and red tape have been endangering our health.
The Bernie Sanders Paradox
They need wealth to redistribute, but they make it harder to create.
The TARP Bailout Was the Wrong Response to a Government-Caused Meltdown
It wasn’t a TARP-or-nothing choice.
Paternalism in the European Union
Which nations have the most onerous rules governing private behavior?
The Inevitability of Bureaucratic Bloat
Two stories make the same point about ever-expanding bureaucracy.
Michael Bloomberg and Entitlements: Rational (at Least in the Past), but not Right
Bloomberg is less rational today.