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Even as Greenspan is condemned and blamed for the economic crisis, the “libertarian” Cato Institute now rushes to his defense.

Quantitative finance analysts, or “quants” in the financial jargon, played a prominent role in the subprime crisis.

The only redeeming feature of our political process is that we peacefully accomplished an ideological shift -- a coup of sorts -- that in almost ev

Jeffrey Tucker offers insights into Greenspan's role in the 2008 economic crash.

A remorseful Dr.

At first blush, incarceration would seem to involve a loss of physical mobility – you have to stay in the prison all day and all night.

I don’t know what it is about the Nobel Prize that makes economists fall in love with John Maynard Keynes, but once again I see a Nobel winne

When I saw the title of this Cato podcast–“Intellectual Property Versus Reason”

Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, died this m

Michael Rozeff has a surprising analysis where he lays out a few convincing arguments that gold prices are too high right now, relative to other prices.