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Life without international trade: using local labor and materials only, a suit takes 500 man-hours to produce.

Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan write in The Washington Post:

Thank goodness for congressional committees, and the committees’ subcommittees.

This is one you might not expect, one that will leave you speechless.

Sometimes the regular news reads just like The Onion

In 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them, Peter Leeson of

Many churches during the season of Lent hold a “hunger banquet” to illustrate the problem of poverty in the developing world.

I guess I don’t understand politics unless I assume that politicians think we’re a lot dumber than them.

You can listen to the panel I appeared on at yesterday’s Cato Institute conference o

The Hayek Foundation of Argentine has a new site.