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

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.

An expanded version for The New American of my recent article on the Flat Tax is no

For months Alex Tabarrok has being doing a great job yelling to all the world that this “credit crunch” is bogus.

Three economists for the Minneapolis Fed have written a paper called “Myths about the