Over the past decade, mass tort litigation involving de minimis levels of impurities has skyrocketed. One need only turn on the evening news to see advertisements for litigation related to allegedly ...

Rent seeking is the real virus. The virus spreads from person-to-person through the central bank-backed fiat monetary system and grows like a cancer through regulation. Rent seekers think they are ...

Rent seeking is defined as any practice in which an entity aims to increase its wealth without making any contribution to the wealth or benefit of society. It's typically done by manipulating the ...

Over the last several years, there’s been an ongoing and lively debate in the comment section of CD between the advocates of free trade and the advocates of protectionism (“scarcityists” as Jon Murphy ...

One need not look far for evidence that the costs of a college degree are skyrocketing. The average college student pays more than $23,000 per year on tuition, fees, room, and board at a baccalaureate ...

Main bhi bohut ajeeb hun, itna ajeeb hun ke bas Khud ko tabah kar lia aur malaal bhi nahi This couplet by Jaun Elia reflects the regressive mindset of our society and government, which continues to ...

Scharfstein, David S., and Jeremy Stein. "The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets: Divisional Rent-Seeking and Inefficient Investment." Journal of Finance 55, no. 6 (December 2000): 2537–2564.