by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 31, 2017
Governments occasionally pass laws with good intent but which backfire because they were poorly thought out and created perverse incentives, making the situation far worse. The current effort to stop money laundering has turned into a disaster for the global poor, who...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 24, 2017
Most new cars sold in 2024 will have self-driving capabilities so that the number of auto fatalities will be falling rapidly. That is an easy prediction, because the technologies have already been developed and roll-outs of the new cars are being planned and, in some...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 17, 2017
The rains have returned to California, and the six-year drought appears to be largely over. We have heard countless assertions from journalists and politicians, ignorant of the weather history of California and the other western states, that the drought was a result...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 10, 2017
Did the authorities, in “an abundance of caution,” take too long to reinstate operations after the tragic shootings in the Fort Lauderdale airport this past Friday? The airport was shut down immediately after the shootings and remained shut for more than 12 hours,...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 3, 2017
A positive side effect of President Obama’s duplicity with the anti-Israeli United Nations vote was the attention it brought to what the U.N. is actually doing and how it is wasting taxpayer dollars and undermining liberty. If the U.S. Congress had it to do all over...
