People complain about poverty in America. But what does poverty mean today?

This recent Heritage Foundation study shows that poor people have cars, air conditioning, modern electronics--things even kings didn't have decades ago.

There is wealth disparity, but that isn't bad; it's just a byproduct of freedom, and life is better when people are free. The rich get richer, and the poor get...richer... continue reading »

Businesses are greedy. They want our money.

So what do the politicians and bureaucrats do? They set "standards." I wish they'd stop.

That's what my syndicated column is about this week:... continue reading »

National Review has Part 1 of my Uncommon Knowledge interview with Peter Robinson up today.

You can see the entire, 45 minute version here.

Soon we'll know if former presidential candidate John Edwards goes to jail.

We're told that he faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines... continue reading »

Pat Buchanan joins us tonight to talk about being fired from MSNBC, supposedly because his bosses didn't like what he wrote in his book, Suicide of a Superpower... continue reading »

My syndicated column this week discusses the "fairness" of wealth inequality:

A free market will create big differences in wealth. That wealth disparity is simply a byproduct of freedom - vastly diverse individuals competing to serve consumers will arrive at vastly diverse outcomes.

That disparity is not unfair - if it results from free exchange.

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Politicians spend and regulate. They have us on what F.A. Hayek called "the road to serfdom."... continue reading »

Politicians pretend they can protect us from risks. But they can't. Often intuitively useful safety rules leave us less safe.

That's what my syndicated column is about this week:

Everyone has a different tolerance for risk. One person takes out a second mortgage to start a business. Another thinks that sounds nerve-racking, if not insane. Neither person is wrong. Government cannot know each person's preferences, or odds of success... continue reading »

I assume government regulators don't want to kill prosperity. But that's what their pages of rules do.

This video got suddenly popular this month. It asks the question, "What if you wanted America to fail?" The narrator, Ryan Houck, is here to discuss it.

Cliff Asness says current financial regulations make us less safe... continue reading »

A blog post in the Washington Post criticizes states like Michigan and Tennessee for supporting the spread of charter schools, because that diverts money from the government schools:continue reading »