How we become richer.

He has a disturbing affinity for crackpot ideas and totalitarian regimes.

A troubling shift to cronyism.

There’s an ever-growing burden of red tape.

The structure of the Washington bureaucracy that gives it dangerous powers.

More costly and invasive “reporting” requirements.

An idea that sounds nice, but won’t work.

It’s the cartoon version of Mitchell’s Law.

Ending subsidies is not a ban.

I wrote a four-part series about how governments are waging a war against cash, with the first two columns looking at why politicians are so interested in taking this radical step. In Part I, I looked at the argument that cash should be banned or restricted so governments could more easily collect additional tax revenue. In Part […]