Governments can make the New Year better by enacting optimal supply-side and demand-side policies.

Politicians only address symptoms when it's the system we need to fix

The Democrats promise change, but the changes will be minor alterations within the statist status quo

The social cost of the tax that pays for the subsidy is greater than the gain to the buyers, because the extra buyers are able to to buy it at less than the market price.

Government policy can be either market enhancing, such as by penalizing theft, or market hampering, such as by taxing human action.

Creating money not based on gold, manipulation and inflation rather than the natural interest rate, and land-value subsidies, all skew and distort prices and profits.

Comparing economic approaches by three major cities

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

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

Do lenders need more cops or less temptation?

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

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.

The Federal government forces California to spray to eradicate a moth and causes health and environmental problems

The moral case against taxing the rich is that if they earned the money with their labor, it is morally wrong to take away their earnings by force.

In the fall of 2007, Freddie Mac, the second largest housing finance company, was hit by a $2 billion quarterly loss

The federal government has initiated an anti-trust action against the Whole Foods grocery company to prevent it from merging with Wild Oats.

A song about courage and value

If a pure free market has peace, prosperity, and harmony, then the absence of these today must have its cause in government intervention

The bear will devour us with falling stock markets, folks losing their homes, loans in default, business shut downs, and job losses

There are already recessions in two key industries, residential real estate and automobile manufacturing