Fear Itself: FDR’s Inaugural Address
Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.
Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.
He's been searching for a legacy for years, and now at last he leaves two, says William Anderson: a recession and high energy prices.
Paul Krugman rails against cutting taxes, but his own quack solution is more of what brought about the downturn in the first place.
Real "credit crunch" is threatening on the horizon, writes Hans Sennholz, and it could gravely encumber the American economy.
Woodward reports that Greenspan himself was willing, on occasion, to do things that weren't strictly legal.
A CNN report on a Russian police academy, writes Adam Young, masks the brutality of training children to serve as state revenue agents.
She won’t have to face the relentless frustration and anger that comes with trying to make a bureaucracy do what it is not established to do.
Cheer up. A drop in stock prices doesn't destroy wealth, say Robert Murphy and Gene Callahan. It only reveals a change in the marketability of one line of production against another.
Just as the antitrust suit seems to be burning itself out, the enemies of Microsoft have launched another sneak attack, writes Lew Rockwell.
The unhappy truth is that Thomas Jefferson, a great libertarian theorist when out of office, was an outright disaster in power, writes Joseph Stromberg.