The New York Times: It Just Can’t Stop Hating Success and the American Way of Life
To combat climate change, we need to break our addiction to consuming oil, while developing countries need to break their addiction to sel
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The Case of Government Retirement Programs
A scandal more serious than Enron. Mark A. Pribonic explains.
Government Did Invent the Internet, But the Market Made It Glorious
Government involvement accounts for the internet's continuing problems, while the market should get the credit for its glories.
Who Owns Corporate America?
Here is a little map I made up awhile ago of companies and their board of directors t
The War on Immigration Will Fail
There exists a market demand for low-skilled cheap labor, writes Wade Mitchell. This triumph of the market is not in itself a problem.
How Prosperity Generates Poverty
In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.
Mythology of the Minimum Wage
Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage, writes Doug MacKenzie.
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
