Consumers and producers are uniquely situated to make judgments about meeting their own wants and needs. So government regulation in the name of protecting consumers and competition-or in any other name for that matter-rarely lives up to its billing.
Economy
Don’t Fence Me In: Lianne’s Story
Family, then finances—and opportunity. Those are what brought Lianne Halpern back to tiny Shamrock, a small, dusty stop on the famous Route 66 in the Texas panhandle. Like generations of Americans before, Lianne and her family had traveled west along that route in search of the golden promises of California. Lianne’s father worked in the...
January 29, 2026