The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Yet “business history has shown that given enough time, arrogance and money, your average CEO can destroy far more shareholder value than any normal human being could think possible,” writes Jason Trennert of Strategas.

The right to healthcare does not mean you will ever get any healthcare. That is a myth. In the immoral attempt to make healthcare a “right”, to make it “free” for everybody, it has instead become less and less available for everybody.

There is not a damn thing that public unions workers can do cheaper or better than private industry. Taxpayers foot the bill for the difference.

FEELING the need for an example of government policy run amok? Look no further than the box of cornflakes on your kitchen shelf. In its myriad corn-related interventions, Washington has managed simultaneously to help drive up food prices and add tens of billions of dollars to the deficit, while arguably increasing energy use and harming the environment.

Congress continues to behave in a manner that would be felonious if it were a private company. Its budgetary practices are appalling–the Democratic Congress hasn’t passed a budget in more than two years, and now refuses even to propose one–and the accounting gimmicks it uses to conceal its fecklessness from voters–the Social Security “Trust Fund,” for instance–would be criminal if engaged in by a publicly-traded company.

The reality is that political attempts to reduce income inequality with transfers are frustrated by the same considerations that would frustrate an attempt to reduce gender inequality in life expectancy with transfers. Helping the poor by reducing poverty is desirable independent of comparisons with the wealth of the rich. And, as with greater longevity for men, improving the income of the poor is best achieved by the freedom and prosperity that result when government is restricted to enforcing the general rules of private property and voluntary exchange.