WTO Meltdown
Only the developing countries had it right in Seattle: both the protestors and the leading delegates represent a threat to free trade and enterprise.
In Defense of Cheap Labor
The protesters and the Clinton administration are demanding higher wages in the developing world, but this would be the kiss of death for economies around the world.
Posner on Antitrust
Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can’t be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
The WTO: Threat to Free Trade
Created in the name of free trade, and even backed by some free traders, the World Trade Organization has become what its fine-print promised it would be: a vehicle for economic planning.
Don’t Check the Box
Only 1 in 10 taxpayers are willing to send money to the presidential election fund. What does that tell us, asks Lew Rockwell, about public sentiment concerning government?
No Third Way
It’s an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.
The Millennium’s Great Idea
The free economy has liberated the human spirit to produce a level of prosperity unknown in the history of the world. (Opinion column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)
Privatize Risk
Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer.
The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
The real meaning of Thanksgiving: Plymouth was a socialist colony and it failed miserably.
Microcredit Meltdown
A scheme heralded by the political elite turns out to be an economic fiasco everywhere it has been tried, argues Jeffrey Tucker.
