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In a neat admission that his bosses are rotting the money in our pockets, Chicago Fed economist Francois Velde has come up with

Yet Another Example of how Intellectual Property is Partial Enslavement:

In more lawsuit news, a 16-year-old being sued for online music piracy

In addition to the Downing Street memo, we now have former chief of the CIA’s European division, Tyler Drumheller, in an interview with Spieg

[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and

In the copyright equivalent of mummies rising from the dead,

The local PBS station is due to rebroadcast the Nova program

In “How I Stole a Great Idea From Lew Rockwell,” Gary North writes:

Let’s say that we could generate a graph with happiness in rows and wealth in columns. The curve slops perfectly upward.

Man wins $138,000 trip to space. Feds say he has to report that as income, and owe 25 grand in taxes. Man cancels trip.