Topic: Regulation

Crisis, Free Markets, Government, Regulation

Lessons from the Pandemic on Deregulation

– March 23, 2022

“Pandemic deregulation’s most enduring benefit may prove to be exposing bogus rationales for rules benefitting one group of businesses over another at the expense or inconvenience of consumers.” ~ Daniel Sutter

Education, Free Markets, Government, Regulation

This Is What a Good University President Looks Like

– March 22, 2022

“To me, the top award for American higher education innovation must go to Mitch Daniels, who is just beginning his tenth year as the president of Purdue University.” ~ Richard K. Vedder

Free Markets, Government, Regulation, Taxation

Taxes and State Competitiveness

– March 21, 2022

“Politicians in New York must be upset that there’s no way for them to drop lower than #50. But at least they can take comfort in the fact that they are worse than California.” ~ Daniel J. Mitchell

Free Markets, Government, Policy, Regulation

Questioning Policy Miracles

– March 21, 2022

“Proponents may be so committed to their policy conclusions (typically because they advance their own self-interest) that they go to great lengths to avoid careful thinking about the supposed miracles their arguments need.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Crisis, Education, Government, Regulation

How Government Meddling Ruined Higher Education, Part 2

– March 20, 2022

“We must preserve the autonomy of the small number of colleges that don’t take federal money and are not under Washington’s thumb and try to establish new, non-governmental colleges that can offer students true education at lower cost.” ~ George Leef

Crisis, Financial Markets, History, Regulation

A Tale of Two Squeezes

– March 16, 2022

“Securities and derivative exchanges are woefully far from free markets, worst of all when unrestrained pricing is needed most. And once again, the increasingly distant tendrils of pandemic policies are disrupting the present order, two years on.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Regulation

All Housing is Affordable Housing

– March 9, 2022

“If developers build cheap housing, the price of all housing except the very most luxurious will fall. Alternatively, if we build more luxury housing, then the price of all housing will fall, as there will be less pressure for gentrification or ‘teardowns.’” ~ Michael Munger

Economic Education, Government, International, Regulation

Solar Tariffs Are a Mistake

– March 5, 2022

“Tariff extensions burden the US solar market with slowed growth and exemplify yet another case against outdated trade policies. In the words of Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, the US should ‘let the sun set on solar tariffs.'” ~ Dorothy Chan

Economic Education, Government, Regulation

Not So Fast on the Fast Act

– March 3, 2022

“The fact that so many workers in the industry have been unwilling to voluntarily ‘buy’ the union agenda for themselves is not a reason for giving unions more power, but is reason to question their claims that they will improve workers’ lives.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Free Markets, Government, International, Regulation

Spain – Like Most European Countries – Is Choked by Labor Market Regulations

– February 26, 2022

“In the dual labor market system many workers take on temporary contracts that are consistently prone to economic shocks and downturns. Freeing up the labor market would reduce the gap between temporary and permanent work.” ~ Michael N. Peterson

Crisis, Environmentalism, Government, Regulation

Climate Tyrants’ New Tactics

– February 21, 2022

“Just because climate change is the hottest topic in progressive policy circles today doesn’t mean that other issues won’t command similar attention in the future, as anti-nuclear and anti-firearms campaigns have in the past.” ~ Richard Morrison

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Regulation

What An Economist Knows About Crony Vaccines

– February 20, 2022

“With effective treatments, fear would be diminished, and vaccines would be judiciously deployed to those who demand them. Blocking discovery, via crony liability shields, costs lives.” ~ Barry Brownstein