Mythology of the Minimum Wage
Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage, writes Doug MacKenzie.
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Where Would General Motors Be Without the United Automobile Workers Union?
Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.
Flat Tax Folly
Steve Forbes's plan for a flat tax seems good, writes Laurence Vance. But there are major problems.
The Actual Nature of Offshoring and of Our Balance of Trade Deficits
Few issues are more frequently commented on than the shifting of American manufacturing to locations outsides the United States, in order to take a
Interest Rate Dynamics for Dummies
Poor Alan Greenspan — ex Ruler of Rates. Once he stood before masses of moneymen who dare not cough lest they miss a word, an inflection even.
Uncertainty and Its Exigencies: The Critical Role of Insurance in the Free Market
Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains the neglected role of insurance in a free market economy. Any insurance involves the pooling of individual risks by the market, a task the state can only distort.
For Society To Thrive, The Rich Must Be Left Alone
Contrary to Paul Krugman and his friends, economic inequality that results from economic freedom is in the material self-interest of everyone, writes George Reisman.
The Current State of World Affairs
We are living through a revolutionary moment, seeing the collapse of socialism at the end of the Twentieth Century. Socialism lost its moral legitimacy. The force of modern technology required markets.
The Incredible Stuff Machine
So those scurvy bums at Wal-Mart are finally getting what is coming to them!
Bush Battles the Chinese Sock Threat
American textile producers have been coddled by Washington for several decades, writes Grant Nulle, and the new agreement is more of the same.
