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Jeffrey A. Tucker

As with all products of the market, one doesn't really appreciate the fridge until it suddenly goes away.

David Lee

Strangely, Canada finds itself at the most pro-market limit of the political spectrum.

Ron Paul

Abuse of paper money helped lead to the expulsion of the Mongol dynasty from China.

Roman Skaskiw
It’s quite easy for nation builders to believe they are doing good.
Stephan Kinsella

What could be more beautiful than the idea that we ought to respect each other's rights so we can live in peace and harmony?

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

There is a wide difference between a social organization founded on the general laws of human nature, and an artificial organization, invented, imagined.

Paul A. Cantor

It all began in the late Triassic Period, when the government decided to come to the aid of cold-blooded creatures everywhere. The Body Temperature Stabilization Act subsidized cold-blooded animals at the expense of warm-blooded, eliminating all federal taxes on the former and doubling them on the latter.

Robert P. Murphy

Although the trend could reverse, data from the past two months suggest that the inflationary big one may be upon us.  All of those pundits who hedged their predictions may need to go back to the drawing board. Recent releases from the Fed show that the excess reserves are starting to leak out.

Wendy McElroy
The wall separating state and society is crumbling. Or, rather, the state is taking a jackhammer to it.