[I wrote the text below on July 6 but somehow didn’t finish. Now the China’s stock market falling, the notes below and links may provide helpful background. Also valuable background for current financial and...
In “Who’s Regulating the Regulators?: Federal agencies like the EPA shouldn’t be able to issue expensive new rules without external checks and balances,” (July 6, 2015), the Mercatus Center’s Jerry Ellig concludes: The issue...
Around the world, private companies have been improving management of port facilities, investing billions to expand and improve operations. The collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe reveal stunning mismanagement of state...
NSDA has a criminal justice topic for 2020-21. This post was originally for an earlier NCFCA federal court system reform topic, on cases involving federal courts and criminal justice reform. I’ve argued in previous...
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its trade policy with one or more of the following nations: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade topic will regularly...
In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life offers a series of problems to be solved. Each day we...
A Wall Street Journal headline writer likely sensed something amiss with the latest calls by U.S. steel producers for more protectionism. The August 12, 2015 WSJ print edition article by John W. Miller was titled: “Steelmakers...
Many reforms proposed for the federal court system have goals of reducing pretrial detention, plea-bargaining abuses, lowering the prison population, and reducing the high rate in which released prisoners are again arrested, plead guilty,...
Link to Lemonade Freedom site Poor instruction from a fitness trainer can cause injuries. Food improperly prepared in home kitchens can make people sick. Lemonade stands can serve goods too sour or too sweet....
Ilya Somin, in his August 7, 2015 VC/Washington Post post, “Rethinking jury nullification,” quotes Glenn Reynolds August 6, 2015 USA Today column “Nullifying juries more interested in justice than some prosecutors“: Of course, prosecutors have...
