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 …

In 1946, oil baron William F. Buckley Sr. sent his extremely bright son Bill to Yale University. The father wanted to pass on one …

Not too long ago, it was conventional wisdom: Personal wealth comes not from wages, but from return on investments. Stocks are for the long …

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 …

Why do people love competition so much in the field and in the pool, but fear and hate it in the business world? The …

Before the third of the Batman trilogy hit theaters, I had heard that The Dark Knight Rises was a film without hope, with a …

In my town this week, two tribes shouted each other down, each claiming that the other is destroying the country. At issue: whether to …

Is a blowout bust coming for high-flying Internet stocks? There was the disappointing Facebook IPO, but many people wrote that off as due to …

After Sept. 11, the American system of government became crazy obsessed with security. The implementation has not only been brutal and contrary to human …

In today’s political climate, the more implausible the claim, the more likely it is to stick. One that seems to be sticking now is …

While attending the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver, I became aware that Americans enjoy some rights that Canadians do not: among them, the limited …

If they had listened to Mises in 1927, the world might have been saved. There would have been no Holocaust, Gulag, bombing of civilians, …

Real economic growth has slowed to stall, even according to the official data. What will the central bank do now? Ben Bernanke says,”the FOMC …

Vancouver is a wonderful place, a clean metropolitan city featuring both breathtaking scenery and fascinating diversity. The place is no longer cheap, a lesson …

I’m here in Vancouver for Agora’s Financial Symposium, where there will be plenty of discussion of booms, busts and stagnation. Watching BNN this morning, …

Even in this seemingly permanent recession, government is intensifying its regulation, taxation and harassment of regular business people. Business pages are filling up with …

In The Dark Knight Rises, a cruel strongman rallies the people of Gotham against the corruption of the elites, instituting a violent dictatorship in …

There were plenty of big names speaking at FreedomFest in Las Vegas last week. There were TV talking heads like Steve Forbes and Andrew …

I became lost the other day, wandering around in Mon Ami Gabi, an upscale French restaurant situated within Las Vegas’ Paris Hotel. Standing somewhere …

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 …

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 …

From what I can tell, most of what people believe about politics has nothing to do with reality. For example, remember when President Obama …

People tell me that I get overly worked up about small government regulations. But small matters. The building of civilization is revealed in small …