State Surplus Store

"Need a knife? A snow globe? A grenade-shaped belt buckle? Someone may have left one for you at a Texas airport."

State Surplus Store Has Your Dangerous Snow Globes, Belts - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

“Capture” of Regulators

"Political economists describe the process whereby government officials end up being the servants rather than the masters of the firms they are regulating as the “capture” by the industry of their regulators"

“Capture” of Regulators by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-Becker - The Becker-Posner Blog

The Road to Prosperity

"...eliminating the job of a single regulator grows the American economy by $6.2 million and nearly 100 private sector jobs annually."


The Road to Prosperity isn’t Paved with Good Intentions | The ChamberPost

The Federal Sugar Racket

"The collapse of communism brought an end to many of the world’s command-and-control economic systems and central planning by government bureaucrats. But a notable exception is the United States government’s sugar program."

Lugar Targets Federal Sugar Racket | Cato @ Liberty

Dodd-Frank Fails to Meet Test of our Times

"The vexing question confronting regulators is whether this rising share of finance has been a necessary condition of growth in the past half century, or coincidence. In moving forward with regulatory repair, we may have to address the as yet unproved tie between the degree of financial complexity and higher standards of living."

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Dodd-Frank fails to meet test of our times

Greenspan and Complexity

"Alan Greenspan has suggested (in Wednesday's Financial Times) that financial complexity encourages economic growth. Lex's John Authers and Edward Hadas discuss how robust the former US Federal Reserve chairman's theory is."

Greenspan and complexity - lex - global economy - FT.com