All posts tagged "Government intervention"

Reprinted from Mises.org A famous, very...

Un argument classique en faveur de l’intervention de l’État dans l’économie consiste à stipuler qu’il faut corriger...

Reprinted from the Freeman In the final analysis, government is solely responsible for the business cycle and...

Interest in the Austrian School of Economics and the work of Ludwig von Mises has been on...

Reprinted from Library of Economics and Liberty In mainstream thought, the fall of the once-iconic Enron Corporation...

The LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) is “an Ontario government enterprise and one of the world’s...

Last spring, I went to put a set of summer tires on my vintage BMW alloy wheels,...

Back in April, I reviewed a document called the “Financial System Review”, published semi-annually by the Bank...

The New York City subway system has a problem – a big problem. It has done what most government agencies and non-privately-owned businesses do, namely, run up huge deficits and make promises it cannot keep. Given that the subway system is hugely in the red, it’s faced with a few options of...

The 21st century has been one marked by low interest rates and even lower real interest rates....

Dear readers, it’s happened again. The federal government is once again revising its rules on mortgage lenders....

The environmental movement continues its jack-booted march down the road to serfdom. I normally wouldn’t mind, except...

If you are new to the subject, this article will be for you. You will find no...

Chalk up another failure for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. More than three years after pumping an...

History repeats itself, so the scholars say. But according to Mark Twain it just rhymes. Literary quips...

The obvious answer is, of course, yes. If bureaucrats are put in charge of enforcing the latest and greatest scheme dreamt up by politicians deluded enough to believe themselves capable of utopian engineering, than employment rolls invariably increase. And when mandates are placed on businesses to acquire certain inputs in order to...

After years of litigation, the United States government, along with the governments representing the fifty states, has...

While reading “Developing the Leader Within You” by John Maxwell, I was intrigued by the chapter dealing...

The following is a piece I wrote as a response to an editorial written in the Harrisburg Patriot News by Elizabethtown College economics professor Sanjay Paul. The piece, unfortunately, didn’t get picked up so I will reproduce it here. It’s written for the layman as a simple critique of Paul’s commendation of...

The policies of mercantilism that harken back to the days of the 17th century are alive and well in modern day Ontario. But in this case, the industry in favor of the so-presumed enlightened public officials is not one normally considered of great need or “public necessity.” It’s one of simple recreational...