At the Cato Institute, Norbert Michel discusses ways to improve the Bank Secrecy Act to protect the Fourth Amendment, bank customers, and banks themselves. He writes: Last week my Cato colleagues and I held our second annual Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives conference. The theme was Financial Privacy under Fire: Protecting and Restoring Americans’ […]

At LewRockwell.com, Karen Kwiatkowski explains that if government even considers the Ten Commandments, everyone knows what it thinks of the 8th-“Thou shalt not steal,”-and the 10th-“Thou shalt not covet.” The answer, explains Kwiatkowski, is that government doesn’t think of them at all. She writes: Congressman Ron Paul’s famous desk sign said Don’t Steal. The Government […]

Years ago, Joel Salatin, one of America’s food kings, wrote a book titled “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front.” In the book, Salatin lamented the capture of government regulators by “Big Ag” and the burdensome regulations this has led to for local food growers. It’s a war […]

At Cato Institute, Nicholas Thielman discusses the role that the misaligned incentives of the Federal Home Loan Bank has played in distorting the banking industry in America, and its potential influence on such recent debacles as the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Thielman writes: Though often ignored, the various loan and credit guarantees provided by the federal […]