Adumbration

I have previously ranted and otherwise written elsewhere about how the regulatory state tends to promote special interests:  sports stadiums, company bailouts, and regulation in general.

I was looking at my archive of Planet Money episodes and found these two further examples:  in one, we hear about how a young woman can't braid hair for a living without obtaining a license from the state; another describes something much more widespread - farm insurance programs, where even the recipients recognize them as a private benefit.

These sorts of restrictions hurt consumers everywhere.