Cover the kids’ ears! Hide their eyes! Shuffle the weak and frail from the room! A politician running for president has uttered a heresy …

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 …

What kind of events are worth reporting on in real time, with updates every few seconds? Such events have to be pretty dramatic. Well, …

The instant the Fed announced QE3, an unlimited program of bond buying with fake money until the end of time, the speculation about what …

Some pretty big names in the financial prognostication business are recommending that investors start buying houses. Jim Grant has devoted lots of space in …

“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 …

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. …

There is reality and there is Ben Bernanke. The two are ever more disconnected. Speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyo., Fed Chair Ben Bernanke claimed …

Oceans of taxpayer money and patience have been devoted to propping up the banking system. Why? So that when we go to retrieve our …

While Ron Paul lost the battle for the presidency, he may yet win the war for sound money. At least the intellectual battle might …

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 …

In the United States, the free (as in government is not involved) part of free enterprise has been forgotten. So it is the highest …

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 …

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 …

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 harder you work, the luckier you get: You never know when serendipity will smile. This week, the Laissez-Faire Club is offering for free …

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 web is packed with some of the greatest educational material on entrepreneurship and enterprise, material that didn’t exist a decade ago and is …

On a flight the other day, I noticed that a third of the passengers were reading a certain best-selling book. It got me thinking. …

Capitalism and entrepreneurship make the difference in the world. Whether a country is rich or poor depends on both. The evidence is all around …

The books we remember most are the ones that change our minds or redirect our thoughts. Most readers consume books and ideas that only …

The European economy is turning from stagnation to contraction. Financial journalists are concluding that “austerity” is the reason. They say that forced reduction in …

Excerpts from an Interview with the Daily Bell: Daily Bell: Give us some background on yourself. Where did you grow up? Jeffrey Tucker: My …

Politics is a lagging indicator of social-cultural trends. Politics doesn’t lead change; it chases it, incompetently and long after the underlying reality is impossible …