Big Government

Many say that markets are fine from day to day but not during exceptional events. But Lew Rockwell finds that markets love nothing more than a challenge that offers a profit opportunity.

Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.

The President today, writes Adam Young, is the focus of political and increasingly social life. He is presented to the public as an all-purpose master of every issue and situation, a veritable demigod in his reputation for near omniscience and infallibility.

The government stumbles or runs into crisis after crisis, writes Gregory Bresiger.

It was capitalism that finally ended the Great Depression, writes Tom DiLorenzo, not FDR's hair-brained cartel, wage-increasing, unionizing, and welfare state expanding policies. 

Americans have something in common with Iraqis, writes Lew Rockwell: experience has told us that when the government promises to bring us security, it means only that it wants more control over our lives.

A basic understanding of the elementary economics of unionism, writes Tom DiLorezno, shows why violence against competitors has always been an inherent feature of unionism.

Everything we have heard from conventional wisdom regarding the minimum wage is false, writes Shawn Ritenour.

The "superior bargaining power" argument has always been the most important argument on behalf of unionism and of all the legislative privileges that unions enjoy. Thomas DiLorenzo points to Mises's demolition of the idea.

Last year, the governor of Alabama proposed and then overwhelmingly lost a bitter referendum to increase taxes and boost revenue, writes Chris Westley.