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Texas is moving ahead with its plan to build an independent gold storage facility where ordinary people can have accounts.

The Defense Authorization bill should remain notorious. It represents most of what is wrong with Washington.

The more hard-core socialist the system is, the worse its problems.

Some US states are taking steps to offer their residents more freedom in the money they use.

The choice between various ways of ‘measuring’ economic variations (and gauging their causes from these measurements) is arbitrary from an economic point of view, and becomes a largely political endeavor.

The recent lackluster jobs data suggests we've reached the limits of monetary policy.

Changing the demographic makeup of central bank officials is tantamount to slapping a food label on a box of rat poison in an effort to make it safe to consume.

The number of faults that have been alleged against capitalism are without limit. Few have any merit.

Small boarding houses once provided affordable housing for a large number of working-class Americans. They're mostly illegal now.

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