Power & Market

When the end of another year rolls around it is not a bad idea to think about how we might improve ourselves and perhaps even improve the lives of

One of Murray Rothbard’s greatest contributions to American history was his analysis of the Progressives, and in this week’s column I’m going to discuss two key themes from that analysis, themes that are very relevant to us today.

Three regulators fighting over fewer than a third of the banks that were operating 40 years ago. Thousands of regulators overseeing bankers pretending bad loans are good. 

It is hard to find an article in the past century more influential in economic methodology than Milton Friedman’s “The Methodology of Positive Economics.”

During a recent podcast, the woman who accused three Duke University lacrosse players of beating and raping her in 2006 admitted that she had lied about the whole thing.

I am not referring to the lighting of the White House Christmas tree but to passage of a “continuing resolution” (CR) funding the government and thus avoiding a Christmastime government shutdown.

Instead of fearing another government shutdown Americans should be hoping and praying for one – and not just a five weeker. What a great Christmas gift to the entire nation that would be!

“There was no ‘classical’ liberalism, only a single liberalism, based on private property and the free market, that developed organically, from first to last.” 

US coins in circulation get damaged and are eligible to be redeemed through the US Mint Mutilated Coin Redemption Program, begun in 1911.

While Scrooge rightly dropped many of his imprudent traits on Christmas Day, following his haunting, this need never have required the dropping of the rugged individualism he originally embodied.