Big Government

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. Her books sold in the millions and were most effective in transforming a generation of readers into ardent anti-communists and strong capitalists.

Lew Rockwell visits Justin Raimondo's great biography of the master thinker.

Joseph Potts asks how much longer the United States, in its dealings with Cuba, will continue its futile and ossified policy of frustrating the very sort of trade that made the US the wonder and envy of the world.

Francis Fukuyama offers us a most peculiar argument, which as best as I can make out goes as follows. We have learned in the twentieth century that free-market economic systems work better than centrally directed ones.

Lew Rockwell shares some thoughts on the rise of red-state fascism in America, and the libertarian response.

In its current form Freddie Mac is a mercantilist company, and as such, it is not a good example of free enterprise, write Paul Cleveland and Michael Tucker.

Here is another outrageous story of how

With the Kyoto Treaty, writes Joseph Potts, government and science have found each other, and the spawn of this marriage look set to destroy global wealth on a scale that will render the greatest of history’s wars trivial by comparison.

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005 For more informatio

Recorded at the Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference at The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, 02-19-2005