In the aftermath of the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass an “energy bill” for the coming year, the usual punditry has befallen us. From the demands that the bill goes in the “wrong direction” because it does not emphasize “alternative” energy sources, as well as increase the subsidies for mass transit to the Washington Post’s demands that Congress
In the election of 2000, John Ashcroft managed to lose his Missouri seat in the U.S. Senate by losing to a dead man. However, in the last few weeks, we have seen the U.S. dollar do one better, as it has lost ground to what was supposed to be a dead currency, the Iraqi dinar, better known as the Saddam dinar, which portrayed the face of the
En las elecciones de 2000, John Ashcroft logró perder su escaño de Missouri en el Senado de los Estados Unidos ante un hombre muerto. Sin embargo, en las últimas semanas, hemos visto al dólar americano hacerlo mejor, ya que ha perdido terreno frente a lo que se suponía que era una moneda muerta, el dinar iraquí, mejor conocido como el dinar de
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
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