Adam Summers | Wednesday September 18, 2019 at 10:07 AM PDT
Improving housing affordability will significantly reduce homelessness, but it will not in itself solve the problem.
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Tag: deregulation
Raymond J. March | Thursday August 1, 2019 at 3:39 PM PDT
According to a recent study by the Pacific Legal Foundation, 2,094 out of the 2,952 regulations issued from 2001 until 2017 by the Department of Health and Human Services were unconstitutional.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Friday November 16, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
Deregulation to answer housing shortage.
Raymond J. March | Thursday November 15, 2018 at 10:00 AM PDT
Right-to-try will never reach its potential without deregulation.
Craig Eyermann | Thursday September 13, 2018 at 2:30 PM PDT
It’s amazing what good things can happen when the power and greed of bureaucrats and politicians over regular Americans is diminished!
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Monday September 10, 2018 at 3:17 PM PDT
Whatever his performance on regulations, the president has failed to eliminate any federal agencies, however useless they might be.
William F. Shughart II | Tuesday October 17, 2017 at 1:23 PM PDT
I first met Fred S. McChesney (1948–2017) at the Federal Trade Commission in the early 1980s. Ronald Reagan had just been elected to the presidency and had appointed James C. Miller III as the FTC’s chairman. Robert D. Tollison had been confirmed as the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. I am not...
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William F. Shughart II | Friday October 24, 2014 at 8:30 AM PDT
President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act on October 24, 1978. That law phased out the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) over the next four years, ending five decades of federal regulation of passenger airfares on interstate commercial flights and entry into the airline industry. One of prime movers behind this first legislative initiative...
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David J. Theroux | Monday December 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM PDT
Independent Institute Research Director Alexander Tabarrok is interviewed here by Ray Lehmann on the FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate News) Podcast for the Heartland Institute. The interview discusses many government barriers that exist that block innovation and what policy reforms could be adopted now to restore entrepreneurship and prosperity. Issues addressed include patents...
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Art Carden | Friday March 26, 2010 at 7:47 AM PDT
You might have read the story about the Socialist Alarm Clock. Here’s one version. A friend who wishes to remain anonymous sent his libertarian version and asked me to post it: This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock built by the ingenuity of millions of individuals all working for their own gain,...
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