Regulation
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Politicians and Their Reasons
“In reality, policy choices are always multifaceted and tend strongly to align with political incentives: capturing, consolidating, and expanding the reach of political influence.” ~ Peter C. Earle & April Liu
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Schrodinger’s Demand Curve: Elastic or Inelastic?
“Elizabeth Warren may be right that immigration has been a ‘vital source of American strength.’ But if so, minimum wage hikes only serve to undermine that vitality.” ~ Zachary Shuter
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Consumers Stand to Lose From Swipe Card Regulations
“Consumers stand to lose from fewer choices, less credit access, less secure transactions, and the evaporation of reward programs and other benefits.” ~ Satya Marar
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Ramping Up Government’s War on Savings
“Truly addressing the savings problem doesn’t require more government involvement; it only requires that the government stop undermining our incentives to save in all the ways it does now.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Treasury and DOJ Seek Greater Financial Surveillance Around Cryptocurrency
“Instead of continuing down this path of ever-increasing financial surveillance, the US government should start listening to the public’s concerns. It’s time to end the 50-year erosion of financial privacy in the United States, not jumpstart it in the digital era.” ~ Nicholas Anthony
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As Meta Searches For the Future, Lina Khan Aims to Suffocate It
“Whatever Meta discovers through its intrepid search for tomorrow, we’ll all be smarter for it having ventured a vision unlike the present. Too bad Lina Khan is so eager to blind us to the essential knowledge Meta is trying to create.” ~ John Tamny
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Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy
“Determining what is healthy or unhealthy is complex. Complex problems rarely have entirely right or wrong answers. The FDA is trying (again) to provide this, but there is a slim chance it will succeed.” ~ Raymond J. March
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Proposition 12, the Constitution, and Good Government
“Proposition 12 not only oversteps California’s regulatory powers under the U.S. Constitution, it also violates the political principle that those who will be forced to abide by laws should have a voice in them.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Consumer Privacy Laws Aren’t About the Public
“Privacy laws do nothing to prevent the government from accessing information collected in the private sphere. Instead, businesses are burdened with red tape while government agents enjoy easy access to the databases they want to tap.” ~ April Liu & Leslie Corbly
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Progressive Policies Destroy Capitalism’s Prosperity
“To pull America away from the grips of a recession and the shackles of inflation, the government must get out of the way of the productive private sector.” ~ Vance Ginn
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Can Granny Flats Make California Affordable?
“The century-old fetishization of single-family homes on orderly lots had badly distorted the housing supply, and Californians both want housing and want to build housing. All the government had to do was get out of the way.” ~ Laura Williams
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On Some of the More Difficult Questions About Trade Policy, Continued.
“Reality is messy. It seldom presents to us ‘solutions.’ Much more often we are confronted only with trade-offs. Principled and informed defenders of a policy of free trade accept this fact. I wish that more defenders of protectionism did likewise.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
