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The Secret History of the Club (Part 1)
“Launch” has been the watchword this week in the world of Spy Briefing Books. It’s been on everyone’s mind since the brilliant idea of …
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Laissez-Faire Today
Money and Finance as if You Mattered
During the 2008 credit crisis, a horde of central bankers, Treasury officials and large corporations screamed that the end of the world was upon …
The Bizarre World of Plastic Fees
Most everyone is really down on financial companies these days. What kind of scam are they running, anyway? It seems as if everywhere we …
Despair and the State
The sad and tragic story of Andrew Wordes — the chicken farmer who was driven to despair by government harassment and killed himself last …
How Regulators Wrecked Our Mowers
When I was a kid, lawn mowers worked. You pushed them and they cut grass. The grass went into the bag. Then you emptied …
Regulators Take on the E-Book
Get this: The federal bureaucrat who last month started the litigation against Apple and book publishers for e-book pricing is the same person who, …
The Good News (for Animals) on Health Care
There’s so much bad news about health care these days. Maybe it’s time for some good news. One sector, technology, is advancing at a …
A Tool of Human Liberation
Of all social media on the Internet, LinkedIn is the least splashy. A movie will never be made about this tool. It has introduced …
Commerce, Our Benefactor
What if we had the following economic system? This system would shower the globe with free goods day and night, asking nothing and giving …
Iran and the Recurring Bad Dream
Maybe U.S. energy independence isn’t such a great thing after all. Some years ago, when the American political class was whooping it up for …