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So you’ve been to a summer program sponsored by Mises, IHS, FEE, Cato, Independent, or any of a number of other organizations dedicated to economic

Here is an example of what I write about frequently, copyright renewals that doom a book to obscurity, books that hardly anyone cares about for whi

It’s been a good day on Bloomberg, with yet another insightful

Given the portrayal of an anarchist utopia (Galt’s Gulch) in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged–given the unavoidable conclusion of anarchy given t

The judge tack

Marketers love to entice potential consumers to try their product by adding an endless string of qualifiers.

Paul Starr, a senior adviser to the Clinton health care reform effort, wrote:

Someone asked me the proper way to view deposit contracts, in the context of a discussion about fractional-reserve banking (FRB).

“Last year, according to the IMF, the U.S. pumped an extra 1.1% of GDP into the economy.

An interesting piece of correspondence today from a person who observed how easy money dramatically transformed the technology industry, from ratio