Comparing economic approaches by three major cities

Somehow, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not understand the real estate cycle and that their own institutions would make the recession that much more severe

Transit systems depend on taxation to pay for costs. These extra sales taxes have an excess burden, reducing production and economic growth

The six-month truce between the Israeli government and the Hamas chiefs in Gaza offers opportunities which if not fulfilled could lead to greater dangers.

Why pay more at the pump? There are solutions!

Restrictions and taxes prevent workers from being employed, and the remedy is to remove them.

California Grants Privileges to Government Personae

When parents create a child who will have medical costs because of genetic flaws, they should bear the costs, as they willingly took on the risk.

Even economists can separate out the value of buildings

Government chiefs claim they want to reduce environmental damage and promote energy conservation, but in practice, they punish people for doing this

How long can military spending and stocking inventory keep us afloat?

Speech is a danger if it directly incites people to physically attack the targeted group. But if speech only offends a targeted group, this is not considered a crime.

When there is a product subsidy, then the increase in demand is artificial, and this shifts production from one use to another. That shift distorts prices, profits, and quantities.

Do lenders need more cops or less temptation?

As in previous real estate booms, house builders overbuilt in the hot markets. Why don’t they learn? Because they expect a bailout.

The Vatican has revised the traditional Catholic “Seven Deadly Sins” with new ones, including “being obscenely wealthy.”

If the European Union cracks down on Liechtenstein, violating its sovereignty, German and other European taxpayers will shift their accounts to other tax havens.

How can the Democratic Party chiefs claim they can govern better, when they cannot even manage an orderly primary election process?

California judges have ruled that parents are legally forbidden to home-school their children unless they have obtained a teaching credential from the state.

Few people know that William F. Buckley was a Georgist, an adherent of the policies espoused by the American economist and social reformer, Henry George.