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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden have nine days left to reach a spending deal before the U.S.

One: the Republicans want big cuts and austerity. Two: The US has never defaulted before. Three: Default is the end of the world. 

While Japan made some technological transfers to these places, prosperity came to them later, with the advent of free-market economies.

A century ago, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest nations and the Argentine peso rivaled the dollar. Today, Argentina is famous for periodic hyperinflation.

With the US economy facing a severe downturn, we should remember that two recessions ended quickly because the government didn't intervene at all.

In the 1950s, Murray Rothbard took on the question of whether or not the United States should defend Formosa (Taiwan) from attack by mainland China. Rothbard was predictably red-baited for his efforts.

Some of our fine readers have put together a site where you can still comment on the articles, and with a lot of the same people who have contributed comments for years. 

Another mass shooting, another call for gun control. However, when it comes to mass killings, Washington sets the sorry example.

It is the right of the consumer, not the regime, to determine what lighting sources work best for them.

Domestic violence is a stain on society, but it is worse if we only care about violence committed against people of one sex.