Big Government

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Robert Batemarco

What I have shown is that to the extent that government spending consists either of waste or of intermediate goods, measurement of the standard of living of those working in the private sector is rendered much more accurately by Rothbard's measurement of PPR per private sector worker than by the Department of Commerce's per capita GNP.

Mark A. Pribonic
A scandal more serious than Enron. Mark A. Pribonic explains.
George Reisman

Congressmen no longer read the bills they vote on and thus do not require them to make sense.

Ted Roberts

I loved my cat. Probably as much as my cousin, Malcolm, who owed me fifty bucks. So when she died — my cat, not Malcolm — I was unhappy.

Stephan Kinsella

A friend in Cambodia alerted me to this story, about the Cambodian Prime

Per Bylund
To be Swedish once meant to be beholden to no one. But Per Bylund writes that the welfare state has created a dependent people utterly incapable of finding value in life.
Gennady Stolyarov II
Compared to the adverse effects of their illegalization, writes Gennady Stolyarov, the harm of drugs themselves is small indeed.
Manuel Lora

The Ragbrai is an annual bike ride across Iowa.

Tim Kern
Countless articles have chronicled how bad commercial air travel has become since the TSA took over, writes Tim Kern. But it’s even worse than most people think.