Mark Twain, in an unverified quote, once described a mine as "a hole in the ground owned by a liar." Using that definition, a horde of liars were in Las Vegas last week to pitch their projects and bright prospects to hundreds of gold geeks who attended the Gold & Precious Metals Conference.
It is conventional to credit medicines and hospitals for long lives, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but we should also give due regard to such conventional consumer products such as shoes that make life past the age of 40 worth living at all.
A basic understanding of the elementary economics of unionism, writes Tom DiLorezno, shows why violence against competitors has always been an inherent feature of unionism.
Cast aside all the trumped up claims concerning the power of the central bank to achieve price stability, writes Antony Mueller.
Everything we have heard from conventional wisdom regarding the minimum wage is false, writes Shawn Ritenour.
Kant belongs to the classical liberal tradition, writes Marcus Verhaegh, and his view of property ownership shows why.
In a recent letter to the editor published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, police officer Ruben E. Hood makes the claim that the Nevada Public Employee Retirement System "is one of the healthiest, most financially sound retirement systems in the country." Officer Hood is no doubt just parroting what he has been told, writes Doug French.
Stefan M.I. Karlsson examines the claims of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis that neither Donald Duck nor Scrooge McDuck can earn more than the average.
The "superior bargaining power" argument has always been the most important argument on behalf of unionism and of all the legislative privileges that unions enjoy. Thomas DiLorenzo points to Mises's demolition of the idea.
So long as we get liberty, the name doesn't matter, writes Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. But it does matter that the Bush campaign would take unto itself a term like "ownership" in an attempt to dupe people.
