When Donald Trump was running for President he accused China’s trade policies and the resulting U.S. trade deficit of being “the greatest theft in the history of the world.”

Neil Schulman, who passed away August 10, was best known as a science fiction writer, and his Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza are libertarian classics. He was one of several brilliant writers and thinkers associated with the great Sam Konkin’s “anarcho—village.” I met Neil only a few times, but his commanding presence and vigorous defense of his ideas made an indelible impression on me. He used his immense writing talents in defense of liberty and in opposition to war and the state.

Atilla Sulker has posted a new interview with Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com. My favoire part:

The most important thing is to wait, and we are qualified to wait.
~Francsico García Paramés

Francsico García Paramés — often referred to as the Spanish Warren Buffett — is a master value investor who has flown under the radar for American audiences. With his first book, Investing for the Long Term, that ought to change.

Do Leftists believe gun bans will make guns evaporate?

[Excerpt from Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, chapter 6: Antimarket Ethics: A Praxeological Critique (2009), pp. 1303–06.]

Shannon O’Toole, according to the author’s biography on Amazon, “worked extensively to identify fraud in multiple government programs. She received countless accolades and honors for her achievements and finally the prestigious HUD Secretary’s Award for her work.”

[Excerpted from “Voluntaryism: The Political Thought of Auberon Herbert,” from the Journal of Libertarian Studies 2, no 4 (1978): 303–04.]

To gain insight into the state of an economy, most financial experts and commentators rely on a statistic called the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The GDP framework looks at the value of final goods and services produced during a particular time interval, usually a quarter or a year.