It would take another article (here is the original and discussion on it) to respond to all the bogus claims of the FairTax supporters. However, I would like to settle once and for all, as simply as possible, the dispute about the FairTax percentage—whether it is 23 percent or 30 percent.
According to this article, Richard Branson‘s Virgin Galactic space venture will set up shop in the Southwestern US. Unfortunately,
“New Mexico announced an agreement Tuesday for the state to build a $225 million spaceport.”
The alleged war on Christmas, and the first real war as waged by Massachusetts Puritans in the 17th century.
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article.
Ludwig von Mises: ”A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.”
An interview with Lord Browne, CEO of BP, gives a sense of the costs which the anti-capitalist mentality imposes on business.
The annual flu frenzy is on, and all its attendent vaccination hysterias, and this year the mania is stepped up by the media’s frothing over the coming pandemic “bird flu“—a threat that has hoax written all over it.
Its balance sheet, for starters.
Toyota is catching up to General Motors in terms of sheer size, but has passed up the Detroit behemoth in many respects.
With Gold soaring past $530 now, its highest level for a quarter century, some interesting things should be noted.
