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Burton Blumert

The Sacagawea $1 coin was introduced with great fanfare. But so far as anyone can tell, it has disappeared. What happened? Burt Blumert explains.

Hans F. Sennholz

The European currency is stuck in a rut because governments have insisted on using the conversion period as an excuse to collect more in taxes. Hans Sennholz explains.

Gregory Bresiger

Why are some of the top names in the securities industry cooperating with an obvious shakedown racket? Gregory Bresiger explains what's behind the Wall Street Project.

Frank Shostak

Tax cuts are great, but there is a missing element in Bush's budget: any attempt to cut outlays. New spending must be paid for somehow, someday, writes Frank Shostak.

Gregory Bresiger

A former Fed chairman explains how the stock-market bubble has changed American values for the worse. Gregory Bresiger reports.

Hans F. Sennholz

If millions of mutual investors should stampede out of their holdings, would they cause a "mutual fund death spiral"? Under the Investment Company Act, the SEC is authorized to suspend the redemption obligation.

Joseph T. Salerno

He has succeeded in misleading almost everyone into accepting a bizarre and idiosyncratic view of the business cycle, writes Joseph Salerno.

Gregory Bresiger

Section 31 (a), a remnant of the New Deal that hits every stock trade, rakes in billions of play money for the government. Yet they call it a fee, not a tax.

William L. Anderson

What was his crime? To bring consumers oil, he violated laws that should not exist in the first place. Clinton was right to pardon him.

Hans F. Sennholz

Real "credit crunch" is threatening on the horizon, writes Hans Sennholz, and it could gravely encumber the American economy.