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How Politicians Wreck What the Market Creates
One of the coolest aspects of modern life is about to come to an end. I’m speaking of the great innovation in the last …
How Politicians Wreck the World: Lesson #425,689,231
One of the coolest aspects of modern life is about to come to an end. I’m speaking of the great innovation in the last …
The Twelve-Year Sentence
You look at the parade of mindless dopes and dopers that make up the Occupy protesters and think: What is wrong with these people? …
Does the Market Preserve or Wreck Tradition?
The fliers from the local grocery arrive by the day. “Buy your complete holiday meal for $40!” To me, this is just thrilling. You …
I’ve Tried But Failed to Become a Wine Snob
Yes, I’ve been the wine-tasting parties with the index cards to fill out sip by sip. I’ve compared the 1984 with the 1986 variety …
Is OWS Really Radical?
The Occupy protesters imagine that they stand in a great tradition of American radicalism, willing to stand up to the man and risk arrest …
A Hymn to Taco Bell
We’ve all visited Taco Bell a thousand times – 2 billion of us at least once every year – but now I’ve taken the …
Leaping toward the Keynesian Dream
The Fed’s latest inflationary scheme sounds like a technocratic innovation. It lowered the costs of currency swaps between central banks of the world, with …
Unemployment Solutions: Weird and Scary
There was a brief moment of joy at the news that retailers hired 206,000 new people in November. But only one day later, the …
Taxes Can Kill the Web Marketplace
Let’s say you are a farmer and most of your animals are dead from disease. But there are a handful of chickens still making …
The Blessing of Falling Prices
The DVD player crashed last night. The disc wouldn’t load. Clearly, the player had gone the way of all flesh. With great reluctance, it …
Spooner the Entrepreneur
Do you know the amazing story of Lysander Spooner? He lived from 1808 to 1887. His first great battle was taking on the post office monopoly. In the 1840s, he was like most people at the time: fed up with the high prices and bad service. But as an intellectual and entrepreneur, he decided to do something about it. He started the American Letter Mail Company, and his letter business gave the government some serious competition.
The Equality Obsession
The word “equality” is being rammed down our throats every day, with special focus on the so-called “income gap.” The presumption is that we …
What is America Anyway?
There are occasions in American life – and they come too often these days – when you want to scream: “what the heck has …
Unemployment Solutions: Both Weird and Scary
There was a brief moment of joy at the news that retailers hired 206,000 new people in November. But only one day later, the …
Spooner the Prophet
How much more ridiculous can the US Postal Service get? This you will not believe. It has embarked on a public relations campaign to …
Deleverage the World
Capitalism is supposed to be a system of profit and loss, but in recent years, central bankers and central planners seem to have forgotten …
What the Heck Happened to America?
There are occasions in American life – and they come too often these days – when you want to scream: “what the heck has …
How We Adore Taco Bell
We’ve all visited Taco Bell a thousand times – 2 billion of us at least once every year – but now I’ve taken the …
The Difference between OWS and Anti-Vietnam Protests
The Occupy protesters imagine that they stand in a great tradition of American radicalism, willing to stand up to the man and risk arrest …
The Self-Expropriation of the Patriotic Millionaires
Do you want higher taxes? There is an easy answer. Pay more. No one is stopping you. You can overpay to the tax authorities. …