Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.