Why Liberals Hate Uber
By Rich Lowry • RealClearPolitics Grandmothers may know best, as Hillary Clinton has put it in tweets, but judging by her latest economic speech, they don’t…
The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability
The law’s perverse incentives will have the nation working fewer hours, and working those hours less productively. By Casey B. Mulligan • Wall Street Journal Whether…
America’s New Class System
“Clerisy” class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds • USAToday We’ve heard a lot of election-year…
Regulators Wreck Innovation
Ride-share services benefit consumers, but the taxi commission doesn’t want to give us a good deal. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds The regulatory knives are out for Uber and Lyft, two…
Trampling Democracy to Fight Climate Change
by Ramesh Ponnuru Republicans are calling President Barack Obama’s new coal-plant regulations a “power grab.” The truth is more complicated, and ominous, than that. This isn’t a case where the…
The Tale of Two Recoveries
by Michael Hausam How often have you heard a Democrat prattle on and on about how well Barack Obama has done with the economy, given the mess he inherited? Usually,…
How Big Government Policies Kill Jobs and Opportunity
To reduce unemployment, we need a free market in labor. by Richard A. Epstein The latest government labor report indicates that job growth has slowed once again. It is now at a…
Feds list 141 new regulations in only three days
It’s a new year and you know what that means — new regulations. The Obama administration has wasted no time in writing them. The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations that…
White House delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy
To avoid adversely impacting the economy before the 2012 election, Obama delayed new rules and regulations on everything from ObamaCare to new environmental and workplace regulations. by Juliet Eilperin …
Obamacare is slowing economic growth and costing Americans jobs
With the recent news that the Obama Administration will postpone the healthcare mandate on employers (but not on individuals) until after the mid-term elections, a new Gallup poll of 603…
The Regulated States of America
by Niall Ferguson In “Democracy in America,” published in 1833, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans preferred voluntary association to government regulation. “The inhabitant of the United States,”…
The Red-State Path to Prosperity
Blue states with high taxes are struggling to compete for businesses and workers. by Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore You can tell a lot about prosperity in America by…
Carbon Taxes and Leprosy: The opportunity of a life time? Who are they kidding?
by George Landrith It is not surprising that there are liberals in Washington proposing new stealth carbon taxes. What is surprising is that a few “conservatives” support the idea.…
Fact-checking President Obama
by George Landrith Let’s fact check President Barack Obama’s debate statements. He spent a lot of time since the first debate and during the second debate complaining that what Gov.…
Economy, Debates Reveal Obama, Biden Haven’t Got What It Takes
by Peter Morici This election should be about the economy — the recovery is too slow and Americans are hurting. The performances of President Obama and Vice President Biden in…