America Is Going Broke. Will the Department of Government Efficiency Help?
Eliminating the deficit requires cutting the biggest spending—defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won't touch those.
Eliminating the deficit requires cutting the biggest spending—defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won't touch those.
The Mises Caucus hold over the party cracks as its founder Michael Heise loses in a 9-6 vote to Steven Nekhaila.
The agency is ineffective, duplicative, and expensive.
Johnston, Rhode Island, Mayor Joseph Polisena promised to "use all the power of government" to stop the privately financed 252-unit project.
Trump and Biden both backed trade restrictions that ultimately lead to higher prices for the computer chips necessary to power artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk sues seven more companies for pulling advertising from his platform.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
Antitrust scrutiny of startup acquisitions led to fewer deals and less venture capital funding.
Inflation and rent prices are down, and the country has a budget surplus.
Allowing duplexes and triplexes in single-family neighborhoods doesn't increase housing supply much. But it does give people more choices.
Anyone who thinks state regulatory agencies will help them doesn't understand how these agencies actually operate.
A thicket of red tape has made the island's rebuilding efforts painfully slow.
The brief is on behalf of the Cato Institute and myself.
Lawmakers across the country introduce bills to strengthen private property rights, crackdown on out-of-control regulators, and get the government out of micromanaging stairways.
The move "seeks cheaper food for Argentines and more Argentine food for the world."
Domestic deregulation will decrease the cost of living. Trade barriers will do the opposite.
Outgoing FTC Chair Lina Khan sues Pepsi for violating Robinson-Patman Act.
Zoning laws, occupancy limits, and short-term rental restrictions are keeping housing off the market and driving up costs.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom must allow prices to rise if he wants homes to be rebuilt as quickly as possible.
Needless regulation on fire insurance, "speculators," and duplexes means fewer dollars are going to rebuild Los Angeles.
The California governor is using state of emergency powers to make unsolicited offers to buy people's property in fire-affected areas "for an amount less than the fair market value."
It shouldn't take a disaster for the state to consider fixing the rules that make it so expensive to building housing there.
Austerity measures and bold economic reforms led to the country's lowest inflation rate in over four years.
The Golden State has many bad policies in desperate need of reform. It's not obvious they had more than a marginal effect on the still-burning fires in Los Angeles.
Brendan Carr is prepared to block a merger because he doesn't approve of minor CBS editorial decisions.
Decades-old, voter-approved restrictions on insurers raising premiums have created a regulatory disaster to match the natural one.
This year’s deadly wildfires were predicted and unnecessary.
The destruction of numerous homes exacerbated the city's already severe housing crisis. Curbing exclusionary zoning is crucial to addressing the problem.
Single-family zoning makes it practically impossible to build more housing in central L.A.
And also smartphones and FedEx, all of which were made possible by his push to abolish bad regulations.
Milton Friedman once observed that you can't have open immigration and a welfare state. He was mostly right.
If successful, the lawsuit could be a significant first step in reducing the red tape that has plagued American nuclear power.
Cities become affordable when lots of new housing is built, not when a larger percentage of a small amount of new housing is made "affordable" by regulation.
A Utica, New York, land grab offers the justices an opportunity to revisit a widely criticized precedent.
The latest federal homelessness survey finds an 18 percent annual rise in the number of people living without permanent shelter.
Nobel-winning economist Vernon Smith says the 39th president radically improved air travel, freight rail, and trucking in ways that still benefit us immensely.
The libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter.
The case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to revisit a widely reviled decision that invited such eminent domain abuses.
Plus: Superfund is back, Biden signs a lot of laws, MAGA vs. tech Christmas, and more...
Cities and states are passing lots of productive reforms, local courts are increasingly striking them down, and local governments continue their harassment of homeless shelters.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac distort the housing market, explains Mike Pence's former chief economist.
The Biden administration's war on "junk fees" is emblematic of its nanny state instincts.
By one account, regulations cost American households over $15,000 per year. Here's hoping DOGE can help.
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