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The MERS Mystery
A firm with 50 employees located in Reston, Virginia calls MERS claims to hold title to half of all the home mortgages (60 million) in America.
Why Get For Free What You Can Pay For?
Wired.com ran a story today about a great new innovation over at speedtest.n
Technology Eats Lawyers
Back in 1900 over 40 percent of the America’s workforce was employed in agriculture.
Are markets (and other social phenomena) really “spontaneous”?
I have misgivings about the term. ”Spontaneous” can mean “impulsive” (as in “he spontaneously started dancing”), which is obviously unsuitable.
Pirates and Hayek
I appreciate everyone’s comments on my intro to my “Capitalism and Socialism” course
The Fed Extends and Pretends
Real estate mogul Sam Zell appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box yesterday morni
Trade is Made of Win, Part 1
The Institute for Humane Studies is putting together (and beta-testing) a series of short videos on basic principles of economics and the classical