U.S. Economy

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; Auburn, Alabama, on 14 April 2008.

Just in case you might think that the curbing of free enterprise and individual rights is something new in American history, someone just sent me a

The Federal Reserve System virtually controls the nation's monetary system, yet it is accountable to no one.

So says Mike Whitney, a “well respected freelance writer living in Washington st

Let us say that the present aggressive interest rate stance by the Fed fails to prevent the economy from falling into a recession; what kind of action is Bernanke then going to undertake? In some of his writings, he has suggested that, under such circumstances, the Fed should adopt a very aggressive stance and start pushing money on a massive scale, i.e., helicopter money. Needless to say that if this were to happen, Bernanke would run the risk of badly damaging the foundations of the real economy.

Epstein finds little fault with government's economic numbers and plenty of fault with the reporters and pundits who use those numbers.

Being hated by the wealthy and powerful is perhaps the high cost of serving those with low incomes, and Wal-Mart will no doubt continue to encounter resistance from those who don't need its services for some time to come.

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “They ca

But so far, the debate has focused on the natural-science question of whether global warming is actually occurring, and, if so, what its cause is. Here is where the popular understanding is very much in need of correction.

This scathing address delivered by Dr. Jordan at the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board, 16 May 1946, one year after the end of World War II.