Laissez-Faire Today

How would you like to drive from New York to Los Angeles with just one stop for gas? It seems incredible and wonderful, but …

Easy prediction: Congress will not cut spending. The hysteria in Washington is for naught, as usual. There will be no “austerity,” at least not …

“Economics puts parameters on people’s utopias.” Yes. That’s exactly it. That’s why the politicians hate economics. That’s why the media are so… selective in …

Beginning last year, mainstream reporters began kvetching about a rather brilliant tax strategy used by Google, Apple and hundreds of other technology firms. It’s …

I was just down at the “feed and seed” buying two baby chicks to replace my female duck that was carried off by a …

It seems that the president is frustrated with Congress. What kind of legislature is this, he asks, that fails to immediately enact the will …

Two years ago, I was the soul of generosity. I had culled through my sizeable collection of CDs and found 30 discs that I …

For many people around the world, the first they had ever heard of the great economist Friedrich A. Hayek came from a rap video. …

The functioning of millions of our consumer products has been wrecked by government regulations in ways that are extremely hard to detect and difficult …

To do serious business in America requires vast campaign contributions to several layers of elected politicians, an army of lobbyists in Washington, retired government …