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Ninety years ago this month, on December 23, 1913, the Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act, establishing a national central-banking system in t

“The only difference is that Saddam would kill you in private, where the Americans will kill you in public,” Mohammd Saleh, a 39-year o

This paper by Philip Oreopoulos argues that dropping out of school isn

Interesting price chart from CNN: 

With reference to “In Defense of Scrooge,” there is more to say.

Government is not very adept at accomplishing it aims, but it is very good at re-defining its objectives.

Stephen Hawking remarked that each equation in a book halves its sales.

“Back in 1937, an economist named Ronald Coase realized something that helped explain the rise of modern corporations -- and which just might

Only 1.8 percent of civil cases go to trial in federal court, reports the NYT

Tyler Cowen is now pondering how we might handle th