If you want to understand why banks mistreat their customers, look to the government.
Daily Analysis
Democrats Pass Sweeping Election Reform Bill That Undermines Democracy
H.R. 1 undermines many democratic institutions.
My Sporadically Successful Career as a Global Money Launderer
Two personal stories illustrate how AML laws work (or don’t) in practice.
To Protect Non-Profit Donors from Government Persecution, Limit IRS Data Collection
There should be no reason to collect this information.
If We’re Going to Trust Governments to Enforce Law, then Governments Should Obey Law (and Limit Law)
Challenges to personal liberty.
NSA Abuse Shows Importance of Financial Privacy
Arguments in favor of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act start and end with tax evasion. Those who question the validity of a massive and invasive financial dragnet for the purpose of catching a few tax cheats are accused of either being a tax evader themselves or…
What’s More Worrisome, Big Brother Monitoring Where You Drive or Big Brother Controlling How You Drive?
If you don’t like the NSA collecting and monitoring all your communications, you probably won’t be thrilled about new technologies that will give government power to monitor where you drive and control how you drive. Let’s look at a couple of options and then ponder…
Assurances on Destructive IRS Regulation Fall Short
Secretary Geithner offered little more than ‘you can trust us’ to assuage concerns.
The Nanny State Runs Amok, Asks Americans How Much Time They Spend “Sitting on Toilet”
Dana Milbank is a snarky leftist who writes for the Washington Post, but I have to give him credit for an amusing column today about the new big-brother diet guidelines from our incompetent federal government. Here are a few excerpts. In the late 1970s, before the…
The Silver Lining to the TSA’s Dark Cloud
Freedom, liberty, and common sense are all good things, which explains why I criticize the TSA’s bureaucratic approach to airport safety. But I’m a glass-half-full guy, so here’s one good argument for the TSA’s new guidelines. And since we’re having some fun at TSA’s…