I’ve subscribed to Newsweek for more than 30 years.  I started subscribing in the 1970s, partly because I wanted a magazine that summarized the week’s news (plenty of choices there) and partly because Newsweek ran a monthly column by Milton Friedman.
When I started subscribing I didn’t notice what some might call a liberal bias in [...]

Leon County, Florida, where I live, is selling carbon credits for methane gas it is burning from the county landfill, going part-way into turning our garbage into cash.  Here’s the story (facts come from the local paper, the Tallahassee Democrat, October 19, page 3A).
Because of complaints of nearby residents of odors coming from the landfill, [...]

Charlatans posing as representatives of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a press release, sent out emails, and held a press conference at the Washington, D.C. National Press Club today, announcing the Chamber’s new “Free Enterprise Climate Policy” pushing for “strong climate legislation.”
One mystery is how Reuters and other news agencies could have been taken [...]

Please see “Sustainability is a Waste”: here.
This relates to issues I raised with the Sustainability Scam back in November 2008. See also “Plants Have Rights Too!”
Even in hard times, gullible people are willing to give up their money and their freedom to a radical movement that is “anti-rational.” Let’s stop the waste of money on [...]

My old friend John Chapman channels Bastiat in a new op-ed:
A lesson from the parable is that government spending cannot create wealth; it can at best redistribute it, often accompanied by waste. The clunkers program certainly helps auto manufacturers, sellers and participating buyers, today; this is what’s seen. But it hurts used-car buyers, who now [...]

Attention High-school Students & College Undergrads:
Don’t let your intellect atrophy! Make summer vacation a time to delve into new subjects or to probe topics that have sounded intriguing to you. The Challenge of Liberty Summer Seminar explores economics, liberty, and society using lectures, discussion, directed reading, and multimedia presentations.
Students consistently give our summer seminar [...]

Al Gore spoke in favor of the Waxman-Markey climate bill recently passed by the House, saying it will help bring about “global governance.”  He’s right about that.
Regardless of how you evaluate the threat of global warming, the threat of global governance is good reason to be skeptical of climate change agreements.
I won’t go into a discussion of [...]

Gregory Rehmke (Economic Thinking and the Foundation for Economic Education) will be speaking to homeschoolers in Idaho on July 15. The topic: reforming environmental policy. Students interested in Lincoln-Douglas debate competitions will find this program especially helpful.
(Students unable to attend will have the opportunity to hear him give two talks at our own Challenge of [...]

One of the strangest claims of today’s environmentalists is that “green” technology is actually highly productive and efficient, so that by switching to environmentally friendly production methods, firms can increase their profits, and by adopting energy efficient practices at home, consumers can save money. Obama’s plan to outlaw incandescent light bulbs, for example, is being [...]

As has been discussed elsewhere, the FDA is threatening General Mills over its advertising Cheerios’ assistance in lowering cholesterol. In so doing, the FDA claims to be the sole gatekeeper for health information in the U.S. Yet as Dan Klein and Alex Tabarrok show on our related website, FDAReview.org and in related commentary; and [...]