Seattle Seahawks Flee America for Medical Treatment
America’s best athletes have been forced to leave the US for treatment because of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Thanks to Markets, Houston’s Disaster Isn’t as Bad as it Might Have Been
The Feds may have learned from the Katrina disaster that it's not a good idea to sent in FEMA and start bossing everybody around.
A Program to Stabilize the Economy—in Four Words
Paul Cantor recently surprised us by revealing the line the he remembers Mises speaking at his seminar at NYU.
Why Houston Doesn’t Need Federal Flood Relief — In Four Charts
Texas and Houston are larger and wealthier than most countries. Forcing other states to pay for rebuilding is nothing more than political theater.
Germany’s New Political Party Is Just Another Big-Government Party
Germany's newest political party once held a banner for free markets. Unfortunately, it's been lately moving very much in the wrong direction.
America’s Two Democracies
Government has a measure of control over markets, but the ultimate results are determined by the minute-to-minute decisions of the buyers and customers.
Walter Starkie and the Greatest Novel of All
Whether Starkie was right that Don Quixote was the greatest of all novels is a question that each reader must determine for himself.
Mario Draghi’s Fatal Conceit
Central bankers seek to shrug off any limits to their power. Only if totally unrestrained, they believe, can they truly do "whatever it takes."
Will Congress and Trump Declare War on WikiLeaks?
The federal government is ratcheting up its war against those who embarrass the government by documenting its many misdeeds.
Distraction as Political Strategy
Is it a coincidence that while we are fighting about Confederate monuments, we are not focusing on the real plight of the poor and middle class?
