According to a tweet from Bernie Sanders: "The video game industry made $43 billion in revenue last year. The workers responsible for that profit deserve to collectively bargain as part of a union.

There is a website called HackerNews that is popular among technologists and small business leaders.  They use it to post articles and ask questions.  One recent question was about the Small Business Innovative

A current justice of the Supreme Court believes "almost anyone can be arrested for something" in the United States:History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and

Economic literacy is no common thing.  In fact, you can find downright dumb economic statements almost everywhere.  And not just in places you would expect, like Congress.  But also in reports from financial

The Hong Kongese want freedom; half-measures won't do.Last week, a million Hong Kongese protested against a bill that would allow citizens of Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China.  The government

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) facilitated Nazi war crimes in World War II.  The Bretton Woods conference recommended it be liquidated.  Instead, it was expanded.  Now it's the "bank for central banks"

Imagine a government that isn't trusted to do what is right.  You probably wouldn't consider it a "good" government.  But would you even consider it a legitimate one?  That's a question Americans need

The United States government declared a "war on poverty" in 1964.  Some Americans say it hasn't helped.  Others say it has.  Both sides are correct.  That's because they're using different definitions of "poverty.

The 2018 Massachusetts ballot is a case study of American political dysfunction.  All 3 ballot measures are misguided and unnecessary.  At least 2 of them are outright perversions of democracy, with clearly destructive

The United States government has developed a repugnant strategy for making traveling citizens cooperate with intrusive security measures.  Here's how it works:It asks you to do something simple but invasive.  For example,

Central banking in the United States is a self-contradiction.  The Federal Reserve is antithetical to almost everything Americans claim to believe.Americans say they want de-centralized government.  They fought the Revolutionary War to

The United States Federal Reserve was created by bankers, for bankers.  The most prominent man in their lobbying effort later acknowledged a fundamental deceit.In 1911, associates of JP Morgan Chase and John

The famed science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wasn't impressed by George Orwell's 1984.  He considered Orwell's dystopian vision unrealistic, and therefore unfrightening.  He suggested a way to make it plausible, but dismissed that,

Australia's proposed spyware law would make Australia even more dystopian than China.In 2017, China started forcing citizens in Xinjiang province to install a "surveillance app" on their phones.  It's called Jingwang.  The

You know how the government is supposed to kick people while they're down?  It has done a great job with Shared Responsibility Payments.The Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," requires that

Remember that giant bailout of the banking industry by the U.S. federal government?  That was ten years ago.  At the time, it wasn't clear what was happening with those hundreds of billions

Governments frequently subsidize pro sports teams.  Whether a lot or a little, it's an abuse of taxpayers.Bloomberg recently published an article with the headline, "You Can Pay for a Ballpark Without Fleecing

We, modern humans, are the benefactors of millennia of political experimentation. We know the effects of tribalism, monarchism, feudalism, imperialism, liberalism, conservatism, socialism, communism, and countless other ideologies. One would think we'd have

Republicans took full control of the United States Congress in the 2016 election.  Their legislative session began in 2017.  Their actions have been so ill-considered and shameful, they have made the Democrats look

An Iowa woman's justification of one of Obamacare's strangest requirements is actually a great way to see that something is wrong with the way we're governing our nation.Congressman Rod Blum, in a

Government is a reason for the student loan crisis, not the solution.Student loans have become a fiasco in the United States, and the situation is only getting worse. In fact, Consumer Reports

Economists shouldn't be making public policy.There is a curious discussion going on among economists.  It's about whether the lessons of a basic economics class are useful in crafting public policy.  And it's