Regulation
Stossel targets red tape
John Stossel‘s latest column at Human Events focuses on the negative consequences of an overly burdensome regulatory regime. I’m upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a…
John H. Cochrane
American economist
Law & Public Safety
The Regulatory State and the Rule of Law, Continued
View in your browser. Two weeks ago I linked to a post by John Cochrane in which he warns that: The burgeoning regulatory state poses a new threat to our…
Law & Public Safety
An Economist Writes about the Rule of Law
View in your browser. An Economist Writes about the Rule of Law John Cochrane (AKA "The Grumpy Economist") has posted a long meditation entitled "Rule of Law and the Regulatory…
Health Care
Health Care Should Operate More Like Uber
University of Chicago Economist John Cochrane explains why. See video below!
Health Care
Unleash A Competitive Health Insurance Market: Part II
View in your browser. Before the Obamacare days, the pre-existing condition dilemma generally occurred when a high-risk individual transitioned off an employer sponsored health insurance plan and was unable to…
Health Care
Unleash a Competitive Health Insurance Market
View in your browser. Those keeping up with Obamacare are well aware that one of its most popular provisions prohibits insurers from denying health coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. …
Health Care
What To Do When Obamacare Unravels
An excerpt from John H. Cochrane’s recent opinion article in the Wall Street Journal: “What To Do When ObamaCare Unravels” Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and…
Liberty
Harming the economy means reducing revenue to the government?
In today’s Wall Street Journal, University of Chicago professor of finance John Cochrane has an article called “America Needs an Alternative Maximum Tax.” The case made in the article is…
Regulation
Forbes highlights freedom’s power
The latest Forbes includes Steve Forbes‘ thoughts about the power of freedom to “outfox control freaks.” During the Depression states passed numerous so-called fair-trade laws to prevent “murderous” price discounting…
Liberty
Superb article on the current Obamacare flap
University of Chicago professor John Cochrane has a superb article in today’s Wall Street Journal on the flap over mandatory insurance coverage of contraception. He gets at the root of…
Liberty
Attack of the Keynesians
The Heritage Foundation?s Brian Riedl provoked an online slugfest a while back when he published a paper challenging the basic absurdity of the Obama administration?s stimulus policies ? that government…