The Fed understands itself
The former St Louis Fed president, William Poole, now consultant for California-based Merk Investments, made an interesting statement on the Fed po
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What’s Good for GM Is Good for the Government
Bankrupt General Motors Corporation has begun its conversion into an arm of the government.
Activity v. Activism
The Supreme Court’s Heller ruling upholding the Second Amendment’s individual right to bear arms has created uproar among liberals.
The vicious lie behind the global warming scare
The environmentalist movement believes that unless immediate and drastic measures are taken to combat global warming, “disease, desolation and famine” are “inevitable” on a scale that might spell the end of life on earth, making earth “as hot as Venus.”
John Galt Shrugs! John Gray Slides! JLS Rules!
The two latest issues, 21.3 and 21.4, of the Journal of Libertarian Studies will be the last (at least in a prin
The Japanese tighten their belts
I didn’t realize that Japan had enacted a law that will certainly improve it’s economic malaise:
When Antitrust and Patents Collide (Rambus v. FTC)
As I noted in The Schizo Feds: Patent Monopolies and the FTC, the state grants patent monop
Dirt and Politics
In the escalating negativity in American politics, each side of every battle constantly unearths arcane new details that attack the other sides, wh
