The only page on the site used more than the homepage: the article feed.
News item: “Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.”
Frederic Bastiat reminds us of the dangers to all sides of using military force as a means of securing resources or to bring freedom to foreign peoples.
I have a column on the controversy over libertarians being paid to write columns that back special interests. It ends with a long discussion by Mises on the difference between genuine liberalism and special-interest politics.
This webpage econphd.net provides an inside look at mainstream economics. It includes information on rankings, admission standards, graduate textbooks, lecture notes ect. It would seem that the mathemization of economics is complete and there is no longer any actual economics in economics, at least in graduate training at the major universities. Disturbing, but not necessarily surprising.
For the entrepreneur in a market economy, nothing is a sure thing. Every business is only a short step from bankruptcy. No business possesses the power to make people buy what they do not want. All success is potentially fleeting.
