An authoritarian rich country augurs a better future than a poor democratic one.

Bureaucrats can never be as competent as the people they're trying to regulate, because they have no incentive to be.

Can Mexico get its act together?

Unions hate the cheap Chinese goods American consumers love.

Public-sector union leeches are dangerously close to killing their host.

Federal regulation and oversight has made the Gulf oil spill far worse.

Like Somalia, Detroit is supported by outside contributions, but the pirates spend their loot much more carefully.

Colonialism bankrupted the colonial powers.

...do anything else useful anymore?

Government regulations for drug-testing have caused a great deal of harm.