The Free Market 19, no. 3 (March 2001)

The Free Market 19, no. 4 (April 2001)

One of the modern hero-myths the State has cultivated about itself is that government vaccination programs drastically reduced some common communicable diseases in the twentieth century. For decades, the government has required certain vaccinations for entry into schools, and most parents have passively submitted to the inoculation of their children. Now, in response to increasing evidence that vaccines may not be the boon to our health that has been supposed, opposition to mandatory vaccination programs is building.

The Free Market 19, no. 4 (April 2001)

In an earlier article in the FreeMarket, I questioned whether or not Joel Klein, who headed the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division during the Clinton administration’s jihad against Microsoft, was doing so as a “public servant,” or might there be a more personal agenda. We now have our answer: Klein was going for the big bucks.

The Free Market 19, no. 4 (April 2001)

I may not make a ton of money doing what I do, but it sure is fun. 

I go into my office seven days a week most weeks, and I haven’t had a vacation in two years. But the environment I work in, surrounded by my friends, all recruited to our small real estate management company through the most stringent system of nepotism, makes it seem like one long hang-out session.

The Free Market 19, no. 4 (April 2001)

Religious social services soon may be getting a new ally in their efforts to rescue people from the clutches of poverty, drug addiction and other personal problems: the federal government. The hook is “compassionate conservatism,” and as the linchpin of President Bush’s domestic policy, stand-and-deliver time has come early. But his plan, if fully realized, should succeed mainly in underscoring the folly of state-sponsored private charity of any type.  

The Free Market 19, no. 4 (April 2001)

“That which hurts, teaches.”

--Max Gunther

Among the follies of our own age seemingly has been the dot.com boom. Indeed, it is apparent now that much of the resources invested in the Internet were wasted.

The Free Market 19, no. ( 2001)

Editor’s Note: This piece, which Rothbard wrote in 1956, is published here for the first time. The problem of “payola”--money given by recording companies to radio stations as a quid pro quo for air time--is still in the news. Some companies have even banded together to call for federal regulation because “greed and corruption” is supposedly dominating the market (See Salon.com, April 3, 2001).

The Free Market 19, no. 5 (May 2001)

In the parlance of finance, liquidity refers to the readiness that an asset can be converted to cash without a significant loss in value. Examples of liquid assets include money market shares, US Treasury bills, and bank deposits. Throughout most of American history, the most liquid financial instruments have been those markets dealing in federal government debt instruments. 

The Free Market 19, no. 5 (May 2001)

The Free Market 19, no. 6 (June 2001)

There are no good American history textbooks on the market. I’ve looked. We non-leftists have to settle for the least bad one we can find. A number of my friends told me a year ago that Tindall and Shi’s America: A Narrative History was the least bad. So, I’ve used it this semester for my survey course covering the period from Reconstruction to the present.