Can we quit with the whole fucking “Bush deregulated and cut spending on education” bullshit?  Reason’s Hit and Run: Between 2001 and 2009 George W. Bush did not “cut back on investments in education,” he increased them by 58 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars. Regulations? “The Bush team has spent more taxpayer money on issuing and […]

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Apparently the most important thing state governments can imagine themselves doing at this particular point in time, despite 46 of them being chest high in red ink, is to protect adults from advertising consensual services in which both parties benefit. Good job.

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There’s a good piece at Downsizing Government which sums up the woes of MMS/oil industry partnerships. Also, I’ve never quite understood why regulatory capture is described by Leftists as a free market failure, rather than a government failure. If government regulators are charged with making sure that industry players abide by sets of rules and […]

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You see? We definitely need government overlord protectors because businesses aren’t responsible enough and don’t recognize that they have a monetary incentive to do what is good for their businesses all on their own.

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It is competition within the free market which spurs innovation, NOT government regulation.

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The day the new financial sector overhaul passed, I wrote Though one should notice that they didn’t figure a way to deal with government excesses “that tipped the nation into the worst recession since the Great Depression.” And it appears that I was right. Via Minyanville: The financial services reforms of the Dodd-Frank Act were […]

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Helene Cooper of The New York Times: The signature achievement — a response to the 2008 financial crisis that fundamentally alters the relationship between Wall Street and the federal officials charged with regulating it — is a culmination of two years of fierce lobbying and intense debate over how to deal with the financial excesses […]

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I wonder how long until I can use this link?

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President Obama walks in to a large conference room full of business leaders. He waits to be acknowledged as The One before sitting at the head of the meeting table and begins to speak. President Obama: What is it about the current economic environment which has made it difficult to get private enterprise moving forward, […]

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Great.  Not only are lawmakers “doing something” in an attempt to fix what was messed up the last time they did something, but they’re doing it tense, tired, and trying to make a joke of a serious matter.

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