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Nobody follows the Billboard charts anymore. In an age of music downloads, the “Top 40” ranking is pretty meaningless.

The United Nations recently passed a resolution in which those who lend money to governments are denounced as "vultures" while the governments themselves are portrayed as hapless victims. This isn't exactly a complete and accurate picture of the situation.

Peter Klein will give this year’s Raciti Memorial Lecture on entrepreneurship (October 21

In his article last week on the United States’

The most effective revolutions are in fact silent, slow, stubborn, and most importantly, peaceful.

Mises Daily Monday | Andrew Syrios writes: 

With a Congress enamored of military spending and elective wars, there's no end in sight for the tax and spend policies that ensure bigger and more lavish treats and amenities for government contractors and military agencies alike.

The Pope is touring North America this week, promoting a variety of interventionist “solutions” to global warming, poverty, and more. But a far more powerful religious figure, Janet Yellen, continues to pull the levers of the global financial system.

In what Agence France-Presse calls a “fierce