You can calculate a much higher poverty rate if you include people who aren’t poor.

The real story is the statist campaign to redefine poverty to mean unequal distribution of income.

More tales of incompetence.

Politicians and special interests constrain their greed when they know that potential victims have the ability to escape.

They’re billing residents for Nazi construction. Seriously.

Europe’s political elite may be even more foolish than their American counterparts.

Greece has a path back to prosperity. They won’t find it in bigger government, though.

You won’t know whether to laugh or cry after perusing these stories that will be added to our “great moments in government” collection. For instance, did you realize that American taxpayers were saddled with the responsibility to micro-manage agriculture in Afghanistan? You’re probably surprised the answer is yes. But I bet you’re not surprised that […]

While I mostly focus on bad government policy in the United States, I also think we can learn lessons from what’s happening in other nations. In some cases, I share positive stories, such as the success of privatized Social Security in Australia, nationwide school choice in Sweden, and genuine spending cuts in the Baltic nations. In most cases, though, I’m pointing […]

Germany isn’t exactly a fiscal role model. Tax rates are too onerous and government spending consumes about 44 percent of economic output. That’s even higher than it is in the United States, where politicians at the federal, state, and local levels divert about 39 percent of GDP into the public sector. Germany also has too much red […]