How Not to Like Wal-Mart
Laurence Vance suggests a way for those who loathe Wal-Mart to be activists who make a difference: don’t shop there.
Should we “engage” or “disengage”?
Don’t you just love the term “engagement” when it is used in the context of US relations with the world? It is hopelessly obscure and deliberately so. We are told that there are those who want to “engage” the world and those who want to “disengage” from the world.
You Treat Me Like Property
Vedran Vuk, as an economics major, thinks that it’s not such a bad thing to treat one’s beloved like property, so long as it is private property.
Four Myths about Money That Ought to Die Forever
With the possible exception of international trade, no topic in economics contains more myths than monetary theory. In the present article I address four popular opinions concerning money that suffer from either ambiguity or outright falsehood.
Under Siege: Voting Rights of Felons or Property Rights of Citizens?
The New York Times misses almost no opportunity to advance the cause of government robbery and other forms of force and violence against the citizens of the United States. Its latest effort, expressed today in an editorial titled “Voting Rights Under Siege,” is to urge the enfranchisement of five million felons.
Fools Put Faith in Data Alone
James Sheehan writes that randomness influences all types of human action and helpfully exposes the futility of macroeconomics and econometrics, to say nothing of the attempt by government to plan.
Dinner With Alan
It cost Lehman Brothers $250,000 for the first client briefing by the ex-Fed chairman. That’s $100,000 more than his regular fee of $150,000.
It all began, as usual, with the Greeks
The first chapter of Murray Rothbard’s magisterial History of Economic Thought stretches far back in time.
The Uses and Abuses of Math
Ever since his State of the Union speech, President Bush has been pushing increased government funding to improve science education, with better mathematics preparation as its foundation.
Sarbanes-Oxley Board Unconstitutional?
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Free Enterprise Fund and a small accounting firm are challenging the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a creation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. The “Peek-a-boo” is technically a non-profit organization, but has unusual powers to enforce federal laws and set standards for auditing internal controls at public companies.
