Ethanol arguably could be the most subsidized product in the United States

People are voting with their feet.

Does a prohibition really make sense?

We should worry about big government and big business getting in bed together.

Why laws against price gouging inevitably backfire.

What happens when politicians interfere?

The current crisis teaches us that excessive regulation and bureaucratic sloth can have deadly consequences. Here’s John Stossel’s video with another lesson, explaining that we need more capitalism rather than more government. This seems like a no-brainer, especially given the wretched economic performance of countries where the government owns or controls the means of production. But not everyone agrees. The appropriately named Paris Marx […]

Will self-interested politicians use the crisis as an excuse to shovel goodies to their friends and cronies?

A silver lining to all the bad news.

There’s a bipartisan effort to ban the practice.