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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

Following on the heels of the excellent discussions during Secession We

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.

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.

Here is a weekend code writer who was hammered by a corporate corresponden

SPDR Gold Trust has surpassed the monumental $50 billion mark in terms of assets (gold).

The London “Daily Telegraph” columnist, Ambrose Evan-Pritchard reported in an

BK Marcus drew my attention to this passage from Mises’s Theory and History

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has now cost the taxpayer at least 146 billion.