Laissez-Faire Today

If the Spy Briefing Club is about anything, it’s about the freedom of thought. Most of us take the freedom to think what we …

The first round of negotiations over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is scheduled to start this week, but …

I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …

The race issue in America never seems to go away. We were reminded again last week when celebrity Southern chef Paula Deen was raked …

Hanging out in Rome, surrounded by ruins of all ages, you can’t help but have big thoughts about the state of the world. Here …

My passport is festooned with patriotic blather about freedom and democracy. It didn’t used to be this way. The less freedom we have, the …

When volatility prevails in the gold market, I love seeing so many different opinions because it promotes critical thinking and healthy markets. But because …

Years ago, it was virtually unheard-of for someone to give up his/her U.S. citizenship. Then, one by one, a handful of famous cases surfaced… …

A new meme is spreading in financial markets: The Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. U.S. Printmaster General Ben Bernanke announced …

Many opponents of gun control support the war on drugs, and many critics and reformers of America’s drug laws tend to believe in gun …