This age of relatively free enterprise and global trade has resulted in an unprecedented reduction in poverty.

The lack of competition means there is significantly less incentive to invest in innovation, either in efficiency or safety.

State and local governments should simply remove the obstacles they have put in place that have driven up land and construction prices so much.

It is an apt description for a high-speed rail project that has been plagued from the start by fanciful assumptions and the inability to identify a funding source for the vast majority of the project.

What consumers really need is competition, not more politicization of the gas and electricity markets.