PolicyBytes

Liberal nanny-staters pass laws or impose regulations to make the world better; but those efforts often backfire and create real problems for other nanny-staters.

Big-spending politicians are increasingly adopting inflation as a solution to a stagnant economy. That’s a Ponzi scheme that won’t last. The better option is to embrace economic growth.

The U.S. Treasury is criticizing Germany for being so successful at selling its products and services to other countries, and encourages the country to adopt the failed polices that are undermining economic growth in the U.S. and several EU countries.

Craig Zucker did every thing he was supposed to ensure the public safety of his product Buckyballs—except kowtow to the Obama administration. And now Team Obama wants to teach him a lesson.

AARP’s new study purports to show the economic benefits of Social Security, but completely ignores the downside of the taxes the program imposes on the economy—and people.

Maine is allowing the purchase of prescription drugs from foreign Internet pharmacies, putting both patients and the state at risk.

A simple, easy-to-understand income tax with a flat rate isn’t just a dream of the future, it’s what we had in the past.

Speaker Boehner said he would return to “regular order”: if he had, the government-shutdown battle over ObamaCare would have had a much smaller impact.

Government shutdowns over budget battles are not new, and they were often led by Democrats.

Our “constitutional scholar” in the White House has done more than anyone to reignite popular interest in the freedoms and limits outlined in the U.S. Constitution—though not exactly in the way President Obama might have hoped.