Archive for March 30th, 2009
Safety regulations screw the little guy
Monday, March 30th, 2009...and help the rich and powerful. Kevin Carson wrote an excellent article with lots of good details about food-safety regulations (proposed and existing) and children's toy and clothing regulations, which I blagged about previously. The system is designed to screw the little guy and help the rich and well-connected.
Rothbard on inflationary booms
Monday, March 30th, 2009From Chapter 3 of What Has Government Done To Our Money?, originally published in 1964. (This is from the 1980 version, so I'm not 100% positive this passage appeared verbatim in the 1964 edition—either way, it provides yet another example of the ability of free-market economists to predict and explain ...