- Will the US Privatize Iraq(Lew Rockwell, LRC): With the announcement of these reforms, we are supposed to imagine the future of Iraq as a big democratic Hong Kong, with bustling businesses everywhere, with an international flavor, where taxes are low and property is secure and commerce is the watchword above all else. Utopia! And what a contrast to today, where no one is safe under a US military dictatorship. And just think: the US will shepherd the whole transition. If you believe this, the US has a bridge in Baghdad to sell you.
- Rothbard Battles the Mainstream(Powell and Stringham, Mises.org): “In order to publish in mainstream academic journals, must Austrians “water down” or soft pedal our ideas so that they will not seem “too radical”? Murray Rothbard, thankfully, never followed that strategy, but it still did not preclude him from publishing in a number of highly ranked journals. In Rothbard’s early years as an economist, his writings for professional journals in the 1950s are some of the most radically and explicitly Austrian that those journals probably ever published.
- Setting living wage hurts more people than helps (Yuri Victor, The Exponent)
- Morris Dees’ Defamation (Myles Kantor, Frontpagemag.com): “Don’t let truth and decency get in your way.”
- Gold Reaches 7-Year High (Bloomberg.com)
- Durables Post Surprise Drop (CNN)
- Paychecks fell the pinch (CNN)
- Recovering Companies Reducing Debt Loads (USAToday)
- New Funding Demanded for Electricty Development--in Iraq (WashTimes)
