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Here are some basic principles of bizarro economics in the 21st century:

If meaning is use, then President Obama is a socialist, and there can’t be any argument about it —

As Kinsella points out, a major feature o

While 2,300+ pages worth of financial regulation just passed Congress that will provide the tools to, in the words of Henry Paulson, “help mitigate

I’m often asked by people who are interested in the criticisms of intellectual property how authors, for example, would be compensated in a copyrig

I can’t even bring myself to comment on

The report this morning about June retail has everyone down in the mouth, but it actually can’t be a bad thing that consumers are pulling back.

Following on the heels of the excellent discussions during Secession We

Here’s a question, paraphrased from Charles Calomiris via Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce: wou

Today on NPR’s All Things Considered there was a discussion of extending unemployment benefits.