California Screaming, Under Government Blows
Production and price controls, not deregulation, are the cause of the state’s energy miseries, writes George Reisman.
Intellectual Roots of Terror
When Khrushchev said, “We will bury you,” he meant it. Communists buried 85 million people in the 20th century.
In Defense of Scrooge
He ran a business, paid the market wage, and kept his contracts. What’s not to like?
Fall of the Dot Coms
The slip in stock prices has unleashed hysterical calls for massive goverment intervention. William Anderson suggests a better solution: laissez-faire.
Will of the People?
Politics means taking from some and giving to others, says Tom DiLorenzo; only the market economy can truly reveal the will of the people.
Now the Bad News
Even under the new regime, fundamental economic freedoms will continue to be at risk, concludes Mark Brandly in his dissection of the Bush campaign manifesto.
Fighting for the Right to Vote?
When, precisely, did a foreign power ever threaten to take it away? All threats to voting rights have been domestic, write Joseph Stromberg.
Ballots and Bullets
The argument that democracy is better than revolution because it provides for “peaceful change” doesn’t hold up to logical scrutiny, writes Murray Rothbard in this unpublished piece (1959)
Immigration Quandary
There is no pure economic case to be made against immigration. But voting patterns this year suggest the welfare-state message has enormous appeal among immigrants. What to do?
Time to Inflate?
If the economy is slowing, argue some economists, the Fed should lower rates and flood the market with credit. Gene Callahan disagrees.
