Where would the European economy be today without Germany? Compared with all the other states in the European Union, Germany is the viable cash …
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 …
One of the great pleasures of releasing an ebook every week is this: I face the pressure to edit, read, and digest books at …
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 …
It is the strangest dysmorphic transformation of any holiday in history. The day that overthrew a government, July 4, 1776, now celebrates the power …
Government finance at all levels seems to be unraveling. The city of Stockton, California, declared bankruptcy. North Las Vegas, Nevada, would be in the …
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 …
The Department of Energy, which is the Supreme Court of your home appliances, thinks you might be wasting precious energy. And the bureaucrats have …
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 …
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 …
Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain …
Those of us in our 50s grew up going to the movies. But only occasionally does Hollywood take its eye off the 2 to …
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.” …
I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, …
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 …
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 …
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes’ General Theory and proclaim that the world needs low interest rates …
Sorry, but I dreaded my visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. It had to be done, …
Growing up in the Cold War, we tended to look at Russia as a nightmare slave society that was utterly and completely foreign to …
“The private economy is doing fine.” Those were the words of President Obama that unleashed a torrent of political hysteria. The Romney campaign immediately …
Shanghai’s leading code slinger, David Veksler, who is also a good friend and long-time collaborator on all things digital, has come up with something …
Many people these days openly express regret about the digital age. I find their complaints vacuous: They say we are losing the art of …
My link to my family past is a photograph taken in dusty, desolate West Texas, the one in which my grandmother on my father’s …
The financial pages and popular culture are often strangely aligned. For example, many young people today are consumed with the seeming emergence of a …
