Month: October 1978
The Politics of Guilt
The affluent, the leisured, the sons and daughters of the captains of industry—why does radical egalitarianism appeal to them?
Why Your Bank Can't Keep a Secret
The mislabeled Bank Secrecy Act authorizes massive federal invasion of your financial privacy
Regulation's Fatal Flaw
Bureaucrats who try to peg prices to production costs face an impossible task—because these costs include factors known only to the businessman.
Regulations That Are Killing Us
The FDA efficacy requirements have boosted the costs of drugs, slashed their rate of introduction, and deprived the sick and dying of vital medicines.
Economics As If SOME People Mattered
Small-is-beautiful gurus have the ear of populists Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown. But their proposals reflect an elitism that scorns the Common Man.
Human Rights Hypocrisy
No prominent person mentions the one human right that needs protection so that our other liberties may be safe.
