Jeff Jacoby on what they have in common:
Each is a good reminder of that most powerful of unwritten decrees, the Law of Unintended Consequences - and of the all-too-frequent tendency of solutions imposed by the state to exacerbate the harms they were meant to solve.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/03/ethanol-and-sub-prime-mortgages/219077/
