If you are compassionate and want to make sure your friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens can still have access to necessities during a crisis, don't impose a good-sounding government policy that ignores basic economics. It'll make things worse, not better.
From Carolina Journal’s Lindsay Marchello: A Vermont man’s attempts to work as a funeral director in North Carolina were thwarted when the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld a decision rejecting his request for a reciprocal license. Craig Franklin Smith is licensed as a funeral director in Vermont, but the…
Recently, I’ve been going through the available research on Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws and their effects. CON laws are most often associated with attempting to restrict the supply of health care in order to control costs by reducing the amount of duplicate and unused services. In order to be…
Robert Goldberg uses a Real Clear Policy column to challenge the “war on vaping.” Will the government hamstring what is potentially the most important public health innovation of the 21st century? Last week, the Food and Drug Administration announced “historic action” against e-cigarette manufacturers for what it sees…
Lindsay Marchello reports for Carolina Journal Online on the N.C. Court of Appeals upholding a licensing decision that blocks a Vermont man’s attempt to work as a funeral director in this state. John Hood’s Daily Journal analyzes two recent polls that offer very different assessments of N.C. voters’…
In 2005, Dr. Karen Palasek wrote a Free Market Minute column about how "price gouging, a term that has no economic meaning, is actually helpful in averting a gas crisis."
