Mises Wire
The privatization of holidays
The struggle over holidays oddly mirrors the intractable struggle between market and state, so that we have Labor Day, Presidents Day, and Memorial
Gold Stocks
The old high (in terms of closing prices) in the XAU gold stock index was 168.62 during May of 2006
Stick It in Your Earmark
President Bush has just signed the long-debated ethics bill, which Democrats are trumpeting as helping “drain the swamp” of corruption,
More money makes us rich
It was this very day that I was telling some visiting students about the silliness of the old populist silver movement of the late 19th century, ho