U.S. Economy

The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn't exist.

The Sacagawea $1 coin was introduced with great fanfare. But so far as anyone can tell, it has disappeared. What happened? Burt Blumert explains.

New York Governor George Pataki has abandoned his original platform for the same reason that Republicans usually sell out: he has chosen staying in power over cutting government.

Wal-Mart has come under fire, even now, for selling gasoline at prices that some state legislators say are too low. William Anderson debunks the charge.

Will the free market underproduce roads? Not a chance. Chris Westley explains how government intervention causes traffic congestion. 

Why are some of the top names in the securities industry cooperating with an obvious shakedown racket? Gregory Bresiger explains what's behind the Wall Street Project.

Mark Skousen is not easy to satisfy. "In 1980," he informs us, "I asked Murray Rothbard to write an alternative to Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers" (p.9). 

As more Americans become aware that anthropogenic global warming is a hoax, the people who make their income from scaring us are increasing their efforts.

Paul Krugman is at it again, this time calling for price caps in California as a way of solving the energy problem. How can an economist think such things?

Even before the recent rate cuts, Greenspan had opened the monetary spigots, in a duplication of the policy error that led to the artificial boom. William Anderson explains.