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Golden Rice destroyed by green vandals (#GMOMonday) 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Claiming that they “were not able to control their emotional outburst,” a mob stormed a rice field this month in the Philippines and laid waste to the seedlings growing there. The mob tore down a fenc...
Should McDonald’s raise prices so it can pay higher wages? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
It is fashionable today for people to shame fast food chains for not paying their employees more. One way I hear this argument put amounts to the following: Why can’t these restaurants raise wages and...
On the soda ban 22 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
Recently, an appeals court reaffirmed the unconstitutionality of the infamous New York City soda ban. Good. Given that such paternalistic interventions are becoming increasingly popular and that Mayor...
Forbes.com: Obamacare is bad for you (especially if you’re young) 21 Aug 2013 | 08:33 pm
Obamacare requires young people to pay higher premiums in order to foot the medical bills of those older. In the Washington Post this week, Ezra Klein argues that this scheme actually benefits the you...
John Allison on how Dodd-Frank is smothering small business lending 21 Aug 2013 | 06:15 am
We have heard several prominent business leaders—such as Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and Subway founder Fred Deluca—state that they could not have started their amazingly successful businesses...
European Union tramples rights of GMO growers (#GMOMonday) 19 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Last year, across the globe, 17 million farmers sowed billions of genetically engineered seeds in more than 420 million acres of arable land. Corn, soybeans and cotton are major players, but others su...
At FoxNews.com: Repeal the anti-merger laws 16 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
At FoxNews.com today, I explain how the federal lawsuit to block the airline merger is made possible by antitrust laws that should be repealed. Here’s a sample passage: Antitrust enforcers want us to...
Should Apple confess to having sinned? 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
The headline sums it up: “Judge scolds Apple for lack of remorse in e-book antitrust case.” The article quotes Judge Denise Cote’s statements to lawyers at a hearing last week. “None of the publishers...
Why your doctor has less time to treat you 16 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
The Policy and Medicine blog is out with another of its diligent, helpful posts detailing the complexity of so-called Physician Payment Sunshine laws now going into effect. The blog is trying to help ...
“Zero-emission” regulations and the rise of “compliance cars” 14 Aug 2013 | 11:50 pm
BMW recently announced its first mass-production electric car: the i3. In announcing the new vehicle, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer said: “If you look around the world, [at] the emissions regulations, in ...
