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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 …
Fifty Shades of Government
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. …
Kill Private Capital, Kill Civilization
Capitalism and entrepreneurship make the difference in the world. Whether a country is rich or poor depends on both. The evidence is all around …
Let’s Build a Self-Managed World
The books we remember most are the ones that change our minds or redirect our thoughts. Most readers consume books and ideas that only …
Is Austerity Killing Us?
The European economy is turning from stagnation to contraction. Financial journalists are concluding that “austerity” is the reason. They say that forced reduction in …
Government Is Good for Nothing
Excerpts from an Interview with the Daily Bell: Daily Bell: Give us some background on yourself. Where did you grow up? Jeffrey Tucker: My …
Rand Paul’s Tea Party Manifesto
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 …
The Amazing Ethanol Scam
Corn prices are officially through the roof, spiking to record highs. It’s been headed this way through six years of crazy volatility. Now the …
Small Stories, Gigantic Lessons: Albert Jay Nock on Everything
In 1946, oil baron William F. Buckley Sr. sent his extremely bright son Bill to Yale University. The father wanted to pass on one …
How the Fed Killed Equities
Not too long ago, it was conventional wisdom: Personal wealth comes not from wages, but from return on investments. Stocks are for the long …
Nock’s First Political Memories
In the final segment of my appearance on Capital Account last week, the hosts mentioned that plenty of Americans don’t know the names of …
Olympics and Economics: Why the Double Standard?
Why do people love competition so much in the field and in the pool, but fear and hate it in the business world? The …