U.S. Economy

The meltdown on Wall Street can't be corrected through intervention; if it is headed down further, it needs to run its course.

In 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith assailed American spending patterns. Consumers, he told us in The Affluent Society, spend too much on such fripperies as large tailfins on cars.

Rothbard's classic history of colonial and revolutionary America, back in print at last. 

If pundits really want to pay tribute to the central state, they should look beyond the New Deal and consider the watershed years of the Progressive Era. 

Another day, another politician blasts economics as a discipline and political issue. (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The sordid history of failed economic predictions in our time. (Analysis by Clifford F. Thies.) 

How government subsidizes U.S. business abroad. (Op-ed by Janice Shields and James Sheehan)

The truth about the newest fiscal gimmicks to come out of Washington. (Commentary by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

Dominick Armentano defends his radical proposal against those who merely want antitrust reformed. (An excerpt from his new monograph.)

New surveys showing demographic disparities in internet use should be of no political interest. (Column by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)