... Reynolds posed in his piece as to why recessions became longer and more severe with increased government intervention, "Why do you suppose this is true? What is it about large-scale government intervention ... be longer and deeper? I would guess it is two factors. The first is the distorting effect of government, which is to say, political meddling with price, demand and supply signals in an ...

Libertarians often warn about the slippery slope of government intervention: Let the government run the schools, and it may end up teaching your children values that offend you. Let the government have new powers to fight terrorism, and it may use those extraordinary powers in the pursuit of ordinary crimes.

... doing 'good works' do not achieve this by voting for or asking government to replace them in this obligation. Secondly, and I think that this is the most insidious part of those that have faith in government ... has in mind here. And what we are doing is transferring faith in Christ to faith in government. I am not suggesting that this is a binary equation where one completely crowds out ...

... Charles Gasparino discusses the indispensible role our government played in the creation of the tower of unrepayable debt ... moral hazard had been created thereby. Simply put, our government made it clear at that time that it would never fail to backstop ... required, and no more than a third of the homes in the U.S. were mortgaged. Since the 1930s, government-backed home lending, the mortgage-interest ...

The ill-advised ethanol saga continues. Government mandates and subsidies for ehtanol were a massive boondoggle from ... temperatures). Hot Air covers the latest in the saga. The government mandates and subsidies have now led to a glut of ethanol, ... % ethanol to 20% or more to take care of all the profiteers who, enticed by the government, have invested heavilly in expanding ethanol production. ...

... in greenhouse gas emissions to prevent dangerous climate change. The way energy is used, priced and created would have to change in order to institute these cuts. Ahead of elections in Britain, which must be held before June 2010, Dave Timms of Friends of the Earth shared his thoughts with Reuters on what the group thinks the next government needs to do in order to build a low-carbon economy.

... become bigger, or at least the ones that we feel comfortable using. Seperately, he suggests (and I think rightly) that we are predisposed to use debt (both companies and individuals), so having government policies that push us further in that direction isn’t particularly helpful. In both cases, additional regulation would make sense, but in a counterintuitive sense: we should regulate to ...

Political humor blog El chiguire bipolar (The bipolar capybara) mocks the Government of Venezuela will manage public money, as customers can carry out cash withdrawals, make national and international transfers and “keep a glass of wine from tipping over while a bear makes itself comfortable beside it”.

Another good editorial from the WSJ: Climategate -- Science is Dying. I think it's becoming more and more apparent that government involvement at all levels of science makes it increasingly politicized, and thus in any conflict between objectivity and politics, politics wins more and more often. To bring science back to Science requires nothing less than free inquiry, and this is only ...

... that was the biggest spender since LBJ (at least until Barack Obama), is warning against government intervention in the economy:The former president, who was outlining his vision for a policy ... made Barack Obama's presidency possible. He laid down the groundwork for bailouts and more intervention. I've said it before, Bush has become Herbert Hoover. A president that increased intervention ...