U.S. Economy

From Mike Davis:

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.

Various fearsome characters will soon be chanting “trick or treat” at doors all over America.

It is hard to know when the empire and its bubbles will collapse. Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin don't pretend to know. But, Empire of Debt makes the wait more fun.

Index targeting is widely viewed as a state-of-the-art concept, writes Thorstein Polleit. But in Mises's view, the very idea of measuring price levels toward stabilization is theoretically untenable and politically dangerous.

The recent run-up in oil prices drew interesting reactions, writes Pierre Lemieux. Some analysts have tried to explain how reductions of crude demand by refineries can push crude prices up!

When the State of Alabama recently announced that it was banning the importation of Vietnamese basa fish, writes William Anderson, officials even intimated that some sneaky terrorists might use it kill Americans.

In recent months, certain Bush supporters have been gloating over the recent surge in federal tax revenues and the resulting reduction in the budge

Thomas DiLorenzo has written a masterpiece, says Laurence M. Vance. We have not only a great reference source, but a great weapon in our arsenal against all varieties of socialism, interventionism, and anticapitalism.