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I highly recommend Terrance Tomkow’s Retributive Ethics to anyone interested in new approaches to ethics.

The article today on John Wanamaker further confirms my thinking that

Of course, the best patent reform would be abolition.

A 3.5 hour discussion between myself and Abhi Mallick about last week’s Mises Dailies. Click to stream, right click to download.

A brief period of Kuhnian “normal science” is now over in macroeconomics —

Robert Murphy may think Ben Bernanke is a joke, but Mr.

In early 2009 at the AEA meetings, Stanford economist John Taylor, used the term “Mondustrial Policy to criticize the Fed and Treasury response to

The last two years haven’t been boom times for too many, but for those picking the low-hanging fruit from the Fed’s liquidity tree, it couldn’t be better and they couldn’t be smarter.

Leftist political humorist Calvin Trillin once noted, “sooner or later, every president makes you nostalgic for his predecessor.” Now, halfway thro

Exhibit A: Jeremy Grantham, a highly respected and successful value investor,