The August 3, 2011, shakedown of the Rawesome food cooperative in Venice, California, in spite of the tragic outcome, has produced one positive result. The ruthless raid on the part of miscellaneous government agencies has sparked a wave of unprecedented discord over the question, How can government dictate what we choose to eat when we each have
Amazon.com vs the Taxman is still in the news . Numerous states are still trying to stick their paws into Amazon’s pot to grab some of the company’s dough by nailing it with their sales tax laws. The state of Connecticut passed a new Internet tax law and contends that Amazon had a physical presence because it had affiliations with websites through
What do you when the Depression is deepening, unemployment is steadily creeping up, underemployment is becoming the norm , inflation is moving front-and-center, housing is sinking further still, the debt ceiling is crashed, the deficit is unsustainable, household wealth is sinking , and quantitative easing is on the verge of becoming an enduring
Due to the exponentially increasing popularity of artisan, small-batch foods, governments everywhere had to react quickly to control these horrifying and hazardous-to-our-health voluntary market transactions that were taking place everywhere. Michigan, for instance, is a state where wonderful and unique artisan and local products are easily
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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