Jun 23
Overregulation by government, near-zero interest rates, student loan debt, and near all-time-low savings rates have devastated home ownership rates. Home ownership is at its lowest in nearly 50 years, falling to 63.7 percent in 2015. It’s a “decade-long slide” that “is unprecedented in American history,” according to an annual report released Wednesday by Harvard University’s …
May 18
A terrifying spectacle of hate has become front-page news in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Billings Gazette. For the past 2 days, both papers have focused on a story of some fun-loving (but foolish) Canadian tourists who allegedly strayed off the government boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park’s Prismatic Spring geothermal area. The young men …
May 03
Never before in world history has an industry fallen under so much regulation as the current U.S. Medical Industry, an industry gorged on government money. Yet medical mistakes are now the third leading cause of death in America. See here. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. Indeed, “medical errors” in hospitals and other …
Apr 21
Trusters of government have been pouring on regulations since the 1990s. Here is a Washington Post story about the decline of American entrepreneurship. Fewer business are launching. More are leaving, liquidating or dying. The average age of businesses is getting older (as young people stop starting businesses due to onerous licensing requirements). Thus, the efforts …
Apr 04
High taxes, cops on almost every streetcorner, and burdensome regulations are the norm worldwide. Yet a USA Today report documents that numerous ‘world leaders’ have been caught hiding money in offshore private bank accounts. In some cases, the money hidden away by these government officials was looted directly from government accounts gorged with funds from …
Apr 03
Government bureaucrats frequently spot good ideas being implemented in the private sector, and then try to show they are doing something by mandating that the private sector must do what it is already doing. The intrusive mind of the tyrant never pauses. Consider the trucking industry, which is filled with business owners and operators who …
