Photo: Flickr/​​Jason Lawrence How a cab medallion system is counterproductive: it introduces artificial scarcity and distorts drivers’ incentives. Russ Roberts points out that Japan’s fuel shortages are no mystery and that the solution isn’t more regulation. Shortages are a result of price controls that keep a scare product artificially inexpensive. Some fancy CSS work by Josh […]

Ryan Messmore warns that President Obama’s tax proposals might dampen charitable contributions and thereby increase dependence on government. Whoever would have thought that a billion-​​​​dollar bailout program wouldn’t work as expected? Adam Schroder’s 5 Steps to HTML5 showcases—and explains—some of the new features designers can build into their sites using HTML5 and CSS3. Smashing Magazine, meanwhile, […]

A clever job listing; the Koch brothers demystified; text-​​to-​​donate as an immature technology; real estate without a government tenant; and more.

What would Edmund Burke do? Also: using CSS media queries to scale web sites; Europe’s welfare state; and Google’s free web fonts.