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Memorial Day provides as good an opportunity as any to reflect on the horrendous and irreversible costs of war.

In America, Memorial Day weekend (like Labor Day weekend) means big sales at most major US retailers.

Many of my friends think of the state as stupid, and therefore an easy foe for determined dissidents to defeat. I have a different view.

What does freedom really mean? Freedom is the absence of state coercion. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.

Ken Rogoff offers a series of powerful arguments in favor of retaining paper currency.

Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Bob Murphy demonstrates that the au

The ultimate thesis in Thomas Piketty’s best-selling

The Senate has confirmed Stanley Fischer

Butler Shaffer writes: