Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes were affordable. Like all other economic crises, this one has its roots in government policies. ...
Colleen Hroncich In her recent State of the State address, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs painted the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program as an unaccountable “entitlement” riddled with fraud. This is a flawed portrayal that ignores the benefits of the ...
The Fed’s cost overruns in its building renovation project supposedly are not borne by taxpayers because, as the myth goes, the Fed is “self-financing.” However, the Fed’s “earnings” come from interest payments from the government, payments made by…taxpayers. ...
Walter Olson Number 19 in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: Here’s the deal, says the US Department of Justice to states: We’re going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you’re going ...
Matthew Cavedon Yesterday, the Supreme Court decided Barrett v. United States. While the decision, written by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was virtually unanimous (apart from a disagreement about a few citations to legislative history), in the background lurks a dispute ...
Rachel Reeves’s carefully constructed £22 billion fiscal buffer could be eroded by as much as £14 billion as a result of policy U-turns and a sharper-than-expected fall in net migration, raising fresh questions about the durability of the chancellor’s budget ...
Doubts have emerged over whether the government’s flagship 2030 clean power target can be met on time, after the UK boss of RWE admitted that several newly awarded offshore wind projects are unlikely to be operational by the end of ...
People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressives. And nothing will change. ...
Bob talks with Dr. Peter Klein about the recent U.S. operation in Venezuela and the social-media backlash against “international law,” using it as a springboard to clarify what law is, how it can exist without a world government, and why ...
Gresham’s Law isn’t about greed or bad behavior. It describes rational decision-making under fixed rules. ...