Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Humor: Working for the Goverment

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(source: Dan Mitchell )
Friday, October 04, 2013

Obamacare Adds 10,350 pages to Existing Regulations

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From Austrian economist Gary North at the Tea Party Economist When the government passes a law, it must be enforced. The executive bran...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

The Economist: Why Americans Love the IRS

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The Economist’s sarcastic takedown of the the US tax agency the IRS : (bold mine) WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Inter...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Are Taxes and Regulations as Primary Business Obstacles a Myth?

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The McKinsey Quarterly writes to supposedly debunk the myth where taxes and regulations poses as key obstacles to small businesses: Man...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Quote of the Day: Business Advise: Get Lawyers and Lobbyists

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If you run a business, get a lot of lawyers and lobbysists. He who writes the regulations will make a lot of money. He who does not will l...
Monday, October 22, 2012

How the US Government Spends Money

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When government lavishes away the economy’s scarce and valuable resources through the acquisition of unsustainable levels of debt for the b...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Corrupt Indian Politicians Loot $14.5 billion in Food

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From Bloomberg , as much as $14.5 billion in food was looted by corrupt politicians and their criminal syndicates over the past decade ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund in the Red

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Many think that government (central banking) surpluses should be ‘invested’ through loans or through financial markets as sovereign wealth f...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Graphic of the Day: Red Tape and Small Business

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In the mainstream, hardly has there been any meaningful discussions about how red tape, costs of regulatory compliance and the costs of levi...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Warren Buffett Sees Rising Municipal Bankruptcies

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Obama crony Warren Buffett predicts that municipal bankruptcies will increase From Bloomberg , Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairm...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Italy’s Regulation Choked Labor Markets

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Here is another example of the normative way of how politicians deal with problems: They treat the symptoms rather than the disease. From ...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Chart of the Day: Greece’s ‘Macaroni’ Bureaucracy

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From Bloomberg , (bold emphasis mine) [hat tip P. Ella] Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, who works in the Greek Ministry of Administrative ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Quote of the Day: Inconsistencies of Public Policies

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Bureaucracies typically resist working with other bureaucracies for fear that their own power and budget might decline as a result. If hi...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Video: Understanding The Difference Between Private and Public Enterprises

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Dr. Robert Murphy explains the fundamental difference between private businesses and public enterprises.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

One Source of Wealth Inequality: Government Owned Or Controlled Corporations (GOCCs)

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Those promoting class schism by presenting misleading arguments on wealth-tax inequalities deal with superficial analysis, instead they sho...
Saturday, December 04, 2010

Paper Money Is Political Money

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Populist blogger John Mauldin writes , The euro never was an economic currency. It is a political currency, and for it to remain a curr...
Friday, November 19, 2010

On India’s Lost Government Revenues From ‘Corruption’

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Columnist Megha Bahree of Forbes reports that a huge amount ($213 billion) of tax revenues had been lost to bribes, tax evasion and misprici...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

The Mentality of A Government Expert

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An interesting quote by the Wall Street Journal Blog on Professor Adam Posen, a Harvard PhD economist, who sits on the Bank of England’s M...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Example of Political Priorities: Politics First, You Later

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This should be a good example of public choice, where officials decide on the basis of their self-interest than for the public good. From Ma...