Federal Regulations Make You a Lot Poorer: New at Reason
New study finds that U.S. economy is $4 trillion smaller due to over-regulation
New study finds that U.S. economy is $4 trillion smaller due to over-regulation
Government rules and regulations on the local and state level have driven prices up.
In the name of public health, Punjab treats vaped nicotine as an unapproved medicine.
Can the FCC bring "choice" and "competition" to your TV? Don't count on it.
The practice has been called "entrapment" and "a form of legal harassment and coercion."
The bill also covers candy shaped like fruit or people but not moons, stars, hearts, or marijuana leaves.
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA says it won't regulate amateur car racing, legislators not so sure.
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
The reported version of an appropriations bill would change a crucial cutoff date.
"The Obama administration initiated Operation Choke Point to punish law-abiding small businesses that don't align with the president's political leanings," says Cruz.
Review of saturated fat studies "do not provide support for the traditional diet heart hypothesis."
How Virginia is screwing over bars, customers, and common sense
"Put a G-string on" and let the topless, drunken good times roll suggest some on the Chicago City Council.
Defender of property rights finds himself on the opposite side.
11 p.m. ET & PT, 10 p.m. CT, to decide whether we've finally killed off all hope
When stopping sex discrimination requires more sex discrimination, how can anyone win?
"Thousands of women per year" would be "unduly burdened" by the requirement, says a federal judge.
Regulators and other bureaucrats form a fourth branch of government with elements of the other three, but little public influence.
Screw morality-the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.
Moms: Get a clue-organic wines are carcinogens.
Why Mississippi's catfish industry asked the government to regulate it more tightly
The Supreme Court nominee's deference to government should disturb progressives as well as conservatives.
How red tape is hurting the cryptocurrency industry.
Environmental Protection Agency
Emission regulations that may not even make a dent on climate change.
Just another stupid regulatory cost with no discernible benefits to people
Shooting down Kurt Vonnegut's proposal for a Secretary of the Future
Sanders is basically enabling an unscientific disinformation campaign.
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
"We are now at the dawn of the gene-editing age."
Unlike Denver, the city lets people use marijuana outside their homes.
Anticipating approval of a legalization initiative, a legislative committee recommends heavier taxes and stricter regulations.
SCOTUS heard testimony last week.
When we are all lawbreakers, vindictive asses in the executive power seat are all the more dangerous.
Abortion opponents embrace the smothering power of pointless, picayune rules.
Government pretends it's the cause of progress, then it strangles innovation.
It buried the lede, of course.
Private-sector innovations trump government-controlled monopolies.
Supreme Court rejects appeal in Sensational Smiles, LLC v. Mullen.
Whether the Court will rule against Texas abortion-clinic regulations will likely come down to Justice Anthony Kennedy.
The governor thinks the state should stop conspiring with retailers to screw consumers.
The stories of yesterday provide hints for the lawmakers of tomorrow.
Ordering people to reproduce in only government approved ways is tyrannical and unethical.
Connecticut is the only state that sets minimum prices for wine and spirits.
Liquor regulations in the U.S. and EU control how honest makers can be.