Topic: Government

Ramping Up Government’s War on Savings

– October 30, 2022

“Truly addressing the savings problem doesn’t require more government involvement; it only requires that the government stop undermining our incentives to save in all the ways it does now.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Books, Government, Philosophy

In Defense of Generosity

– October 30, 2022

“As Thomas Aquinas indicated, none is so poor as to lack the means to be generous. The planned, egalitarian society is not the only just or good one, and a community in which generosity thrives is the very antithesis of a tyranny.” ~ Richard Gunderman

Art and Culture, Economic Education, Government

Does Wealth Ooze?

– October 29, 2022

“The world that I hypothesize is believed by today’s well-meaning proponents of racist policies is wholly fictional. Wealth does not ooze automatically and ineluctably from some mysterious wealth-producing engine.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Education, Free Markets, Government

Colleges: Go Back to Basics

– October 29, 2022

“We should rethink how we finance colleges and incentivize them to return to basics—emphasizing job one, teaching, and job two, doing worthwhile academic research.” ~ Richard K. Vedder

Art and Culture, Government, Technology

Privacy in Social Media: The Paradox Doesn’t Exist

– October 28, 2022

“Looking deeper into the factors driving the privacy problem would be much more efficient than alleging that individuals’ privacy-related actions don’t line up with their claims.” ~ April Liu

Classical Liberalism, Government, Philosophy

Despotic Days?

– October 28, 2022

“The tragedy we see around us is that cultural leaders are abandoning liberal norms, which themselves should bear a certain sacredness or sacrosanctity, so far as they go.” ~ Daniel Klein & Michael C. Munger

Cryptocurrency, Government, Regulation

Treasury and DOJ Seek Greater Financial Surveillance Around Cryptocurrency

– October 27, 2022

“Instead of continuing down this path of ever-increasing financial surveillance, the US government should start listening to the public’s concerns. It’s time to end the 50-year erosion of financial privacy in the United States, not jumpstart it in the digital era.” ~ Nicholas Anthony

Classical Liberalism, Free Markets, Government, History

Liberalism, True and False

– October 27, 2022

“There was an underlying humility in the older classical liberalism that assumed that each person could better find his own way than to presume that political paternalists could make better decisions for them.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

Authoritarianism, Government, International

The China Challenge: What’s a Real Liberal To Do?

– October 26, 2022

“Americans must defend a free society at home and preserve a liberal peace abroad. They may be the only people able to do both.” ~ Doug Bandow

Free Markets, Government, Regulation, Technology

As Meta Searches For the Future, Lina Khan Aims to Suffocate It

– October 26, 2022

“Whatever Meta discovers through its intrepid search for tomorrow, we’ll all be smarter for it having ventured a vision unlike the present. Too bad Lina Khan is so eager to blind us to the essential knowledge Meta is trying to create.” ~ John Tamny

Government, Inflation, International

Fact Checking the President on Global Inflation

– October 26, 2022

“An administration which was evidently so troubled by ‘misinformation’ would more profitably target it not by establishing a ministry, but by looking in a mirror.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Economic Education, Environmentalism, Government

Fake Science Fuels Climate Extremism

– October 25, 2022

“Following the habits of good science is a good idea, but following the dictates of people who call themselves scientists is not the same thing. Climate change might be real, but there are good reasons to reject calls for draconian policies that fail cost-benefit tests.” ~ David Barker