The U.S. electric grid needs drastic restructuring to handle the new exponential power demands of the electronic economy.
In 1982, the U.S. Commerce Department spent $440,000 holding training sessions in three-star hotels. Another Golden Fleece.
The Saucon Valley school district paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit by the Satanic Temple and allow a club that doesn't yet exist.
The Maryland Healthe Department lost track of $1.4 billion in federal funds related to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Michigan is getting $1.5 billion from the federal treasury for high-speed Internet, but has been sharing it with private entertainment venues.
Social Security will be unsustainable because successive generations are smaller than the ones they are supporting.
The Environmental Protection Agency spent $11 million on a key database that lacks proper security, allowing former staff to access it.
The green energy subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act would cost too much and not yield the energy they promise.
The site USASpending.gov is supposed to be the official monitor of federal spending - but 49 agencies won't report to it.
Iowa and Minnesota present a controlled experiment in tax cutting, with Iowa as the experimental side. Results are overwhelmingly positive.