Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us we cannot eat fatty foods, workplace roles that stifle opportunity, and absurd environmental regulations.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.

Good government has to mean less government.

What I've learned in 40 years of consumer reporting is that the market is imperfect, and some people get ripped off.

When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort