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Janet Yellen spoke to lawmakers today.

With the Dow Jones closing above 16,600 for the first time ever last week, investors are overjoyed by the signal this sends.

Mark Thornton explains why the government’s latest unemployment numbers are a sham, and the labor market is nowhere near recovered.

Thanks to Contrpoints for the French translation of Robert Higgs’s article that appeared

By Sterling T. Terrell 

Like Peter Lewin,

…newspapers buzzed with the news that former Secretary of State Richard Olney declined President Woodrow Wilson’s request that he serve as the firs

…newspapers buzzed with the news that former Secretary of State Richard Olney declined President Woodrow Wilson’s request that he serve as the firs

Murray Rothbard once noted that “One of the most common charges leveled against the free market is that it reflects and encourages unbridled ‘selfi