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In America, Memorial Day weekend (like Labor Day weekend) means big sales at most major US retailers.

Memorial Day provides as good an opportunity as any to reflect on the horrendous and irreversible costs of war.

What does freedom really mean? Freedom is the absence of state coercion. Nothing more, but certainly nothing less.

Many of my friends think of the state as stupid, and therefore an easy foe for determined dissidents to defeat. I have a different view.

Ken Rogoff offers a series of powerful arguments in favor of retaining paper currency.

Butler Shaffer writes:

The Senate has confirmed Stanley Fischer

The ultimate thesis in Thomas Piketty’s best-selling

Interviewed by host Tom Woods, Bob Murphy demonstrates that the au