Bush Battles the Chinese Sock Threat
American textile producers have been coddled by Washington for several decades, writes Grant Nulle, and the new agreement is more of the same.
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Repeal the Minimum Wage
Repeal the minimum wage and a free labor market would welcome young people, writes Hans Sennholz.
Target: Google
Is Google the next target of the government's antitrust police? William Anderson says it is possible.
There Is No Such Thing as a Fair Tax
Writes Laurence Vance: the FairTax Plan—a proposal to replace the current system of federal taxes with a national sales tax is a disaster waiting to happen.
How the Market Might Have Handled Katrina
Now that the furor over the botched response to Hurricane Katrina has largely subsided, Robert Murphy examines an aspect of the episode that most commentators have neglected, namely how the market might have managed the crisis better.
The Right to Set Your Own Price, Cont’d
I recently heard from Jason McBride, who was the subject of my last Mises.org article, “The Right to Se
Wal-Mart Warms to the State
The CEO of Wal-Mart surprised many by calling for an increase in the minimum wage, writes Lew Rockwell. It is a cartelization tactic that uses regulatory violence as a means of competition.
Katrina and Socialist Central Planning
Watching the Capitol Hill hearings on what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina provided a glimpse of what it must have been like in the Politburo in the 1950s, writes Lew Rockwell.
