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What Is Bernanke Really Thinking?
Why a third round of quantitative easing? Sure, Ben Bernanke says that it is all about jobs and growth, as shown by various 60-year …
Rachel Carson and the Bed Bugs
A month ago, a family I know returned from a trip in which they stayed in an ordinary hotel off the interstate in Virginia. …
Give the Gift of Liberty
You know the cliches: It’s a small world after all We are the world. Globalism rules Earth is our neighborhood now and every citizen …
The Bernanke of the 18th Century
Central banks around the world are ramping up money production to revive their economies. What should investors do? It’s easy, according to Jeff Kilburg, …
To Build a Better Can Opener
“How the heck does this thing work?” I struggled with the new can opener for 20 minutes before giving up. This thing doesn’t work. …
TAG, You’re It
You probably don’t realize this, but your finances are standing behind more than a trillion dollars of the bank deposits of large corporations and …
The Truth Behind the Romney “Gaffe”
Cover the kids’ ears! Hide their eyes! Shuffle the weak and frail from the room! A politician running for president has uttered a heresy …
Five Deadly Effects of QE3
In announcing QE3, Ben Bernanke’s words betrayed not the slightest doubt that this is the right thing. More Fed bond purchases, combined with three …
Gadget Mania: May It Never End
What kind of events are worth reporting on in real time, with updates every few seconds? Such events have to be pretty dramatic. Well, …
Who Knows the Future?
The instant the Fed announced QE3, an unlimited program of bond buying with fake money until the end of time, the speculation about what …
Is the Housing Bust Over?
Some pretty big names in the financial prognostication business are recommending that investors start buying houses. Jim Grant has devoted lots of space in …
Drop the Freon and Come out With Your Hands Up
“All the profits of drug trafficking and none of the risk.” That’s how the prosecutor in a federal criminal case described Carlos Garcia’s smuggling …
Don’t Think about Elephants
The movie Inception (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan, is one of the few films I’ve seen that takes the idea of ideas themselves seriously. …
The Great Mischief Maker
There is reality and there is Ben Bernanke. The two are ever more disconnected. Speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Fed Chair Ben Bernanke claimed …
Banks and Sociopaths
Oceans of taxpayer money and patience have been devoted to propping up the banking system. Why? So that when we go to retrieve our …
A New Case for Gold
While Ron Paul lost the battle for the presidency, he may yet win the war for sound money. At least the intellectual battle might …
The Fast-Food Path to Skinny?
In Mao’s Great Leap forward of 1958, and then the Cultural Revolution of 1966 and following, millions suffered persecution and death. Collectivized land led …
The Greatest Market in the World
In the United States, the free (as in government is not involved) part of free enterprise has been forgotten. So it is the highest …
Smartphone, Dumb Government
Google’s new Motorola unit had great ambitions to serve customers and keep dazzling us with ever more spectacular things that enhance our lives. After …
It’s Brutal Out There
The longer the recession goes on, the more people are catching on to incredible fictions we’ve been told for five years. The political class …
Can You Learn with a Gun to Your Head?
School is back and so is the grim reality that whatever the government touches, it wrecks. Government has done more than touch education, moreover; …
The Murray I Knew
The harder you work, the luckier you get: You never know when serendipity will smile. This week, the Laissez-Faire Club is offering for free …
Will the Jobless Masses Storm the Barricades?
Many political pundits doubt that an incumbent president can win re-election with an unemployment rate over 8% After all, we are told, no American …
The 15 Best Videos on Commerce and Entrepreneurship
The web is packed with some of the greatest educational material on entrepreneurship and enterprise, material that didn’t exist a decade ago and is …