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Where the State Is Nowhere to Be Seen
There were plenty of big names speaking at FreedomFest in Las Vegas last week. There were TV talking heads like Steve Forbes and Andrew …
The Miracle at Mon Ami Gabi
I became lost the other day, wandering around in Mon Ami Gabi, an upscale French restaurant situated within Las Vegas’ Paris Hotel. Standing somewhere …
Obama Is Wrong about the Hoover Dam
In his famous “you didn’t build it” speech, President Obama cited the Internet, fire departments, the GI Bill, the Golden Gate Bridge and the …
Markets Tell the Truth
People can’t get enough of predictions. There is that basic human desire to know the future and capitalize on it. People especially like hearing …
Most People are Clueless about Politics
From what I can tell, most of what people believe about politics has nothing to do with reality. For example, remember when President Obama …
The Day Your Life Fell Apart
People tell me that I get overly worked up about small government regulations. But small matters. The building of civilization is revealed in small …
In Politics, Expect the Unexpected
Where would the European economy be today without Germany? Compared with all the other states in the European Union, Germany is the viable cash …
Report from an Underwater Wasteland
Christine Lagarde, the head fixer at the International Monetary Fund, says U.S. policymakers need to be more aggressive in dispensing medication to boost America’s …
She Nailed It, In 1943!
One of the great pleasures of releasing an ebook every week is this: I face the pressure to edit, read, and digest books at …
Why Isabel Paterson Is Great
Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine (this week’s Club release) was one of four magisterial libertarian works to be published in the dark …
The Birth of Sedition
It is the strangest dysmorphic transformation of any holiday in history. The day that overthrew a government, July 4, 1776, now celebrates the power …
Democracy Reaches Its Limit
Government finance at all levels seems to be unraveling. The city of Stockton, California, declared bankruptcy. North Las Vegas, Nevada, would be in the …
Life Is Beta, an Experimental Leap into the Unknown
Lara-Murphy Report Interview With Jeffrey Tucker June 2012 Jeffrey Tucker is the executive editor of Spy Briefing Books and the founder of the Spy …
Take Your Bureaucratic Hands Off My Microwave
The Department of Energy, which is the Supreme Court of your home appliances, thinks you might be wasting precious energy. And the bureaucrats have …
Finally, the Truth about Health Care
Nothing starts a fistfight like the health-care debate. The market for what is just a basic service has been contorted and mangled by government …
A Sacred Right
The Supreme Court will soon issue its decision in response to Obamacare litigation. It’s anyone’s guess how this will turn out, and that’s a …
How to Think Like a State
Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain …
Finally, a Film for 50 Somethings
Those of us in our 50s grew up going to the movies. But only occasionally does Hollywood take its eye off the 2 to …
Scholarship that Changes Everything
Some writings have turned the world upside down. They toppled tyrannies. They sparked revolutions and ennobled humanity. The Magna Carta. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” …
The Silent Killer
I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, …
Capitalists Who Fear Change
Digital technology is reinventing our whole world, in service of you and me. It’s free enterprise on steroids. It’s bypassing the gatekeepers and empowering …
The Wonderful World of Commerce
It’s fashionable to put down commercial culture, but, when you think about it, this makes no sense. Commerce is the driving force of human …
Professor Bernanke’s Plan for Your Life
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes’ General Theory and proclaim that the world needs low interest rates …
The Political Theater of President Ford
Sorry, but I dreaded my visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. It had to be done, …