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Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, died this m

Michael Rozeff has a surprising analysis where he lays out a few convincing arguments that gold prices are too high right now, relative to other prices.

An expanded version for The New American of my recent article on the Flat Tax is no

For months Alex Tabarrok has being doing a great job yelling to all the world that this “credit crunch” is bogus.

Three economists for the Minneapolis Fed have written a paper called “Myths about the

[From a talk given to a Memphis-area discussion group on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.]

In another thread here, a commentor asks, “What, exactly, is un-libertarian about “loser pa

I’m really enjoying John Stossel’s Guide to Politics.

Jacob Weisberg explains how stupid libertarians are for not recognizing the meltdown as a failure of “unregulated markets.”

During the fury and carnage of World War I, little thought was given to two shots fired from a small pistol on a leafy suburban street in Sarajevo