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Future Shock at the Fed (New York Times,

I am always annoyed when money is referred to as a “store of value”.

Despite all of the public wailing for the desperate state of the poor left behind in New Orleans, to say nothing of all the low-wage workers who re

A recent post lauded the UK as a homeland of free enterprise, based on some broad statistics about immigration.

American intellectual life in the early 20th century has a dirty secret and its name is Eugenics.

One of the best writers of the old liberal school was Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859), the Whig historian, essayist and statesman.

It’s Bernanke for the Fed.

• COMMON PROPERTY IN ANARCHO-CAPITALISM by Randall G. Holcombe.

The cover story of Time ($$) this week discusses Apple and Apple CEO

Various fearsome characters will soon be chanting “trick or treat” at doors all over America.