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Getting Serious About Freedom
Is there anything that we can do to stop the government’s data mining of our email, phone calls, and other digital habits? I moderated …
An Oasis of Freedom in the Desert
Struggling savers, of which there are plenty here at FreedomFest, have been getting plenty of investment wisdom during this year’s largest gathering of free minds. However, there is no consensus as to what a person is to do.
Freedom of Thought: Don’t Take It for Granted
If the Spy Briefing Club is about anything, it’s about the freedom of thought. Most of us take the freedom to think what we …
NSA Surveillance of European Allies May Block EU-U.S. Trade Talks
The first round of negotiations over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union is scheduled to start this week, but …
Money Can and Should Be Private Property
I was daydreaming over the weekend. The subject: notable intellectual epiphanies I’ve experienced in the course of my life. These are moments when someone …
America’s Globalized Racism
The race issue in America never seems to go away. We were reminded again last week when celebrity Southern chef Paula Deen was raked …
Are We Rome? Not yet, but We’re Getting There
Hanging out in Rome, surrounded by ruins of all ages, you can’t help but have big thoughts about the state of the world. Here …
Surveillance Has Changed Us
My passport is festooned with patriotic blather about freedom and democracy. It didn’t used to be this way. The less freedom we have, the …
Four Important Facts to Remember About Gold
When volatility prevails in the gold market, I love seeing so many different opinions because it promotes critical thinking and healthy markets. But because …
U.S. Senate to Retroactively Punish Runaway Tax Slaves
Years ago, it was virtually unheard-of for someone to give up his/her U.S. citizenship. Then, one by one, a handful of famous cases surfaced… …
End of QE? I Don’t Buy It
A new meme is spreading in financial markets: The Fed is about to turn off the monetary spigot. U.S. Printmaster General Ben Bernanke announced …
Gun Control and the War on Drugs
Many opponents of gun control support the war on drugs, and many critics and reformers of America’s drug laws tend to believe in gun …
Snowden’s Flight to Freedom
Dear rest of the world: Please know that it is painful for Americans to see what is happening in the case of Edward Snowden. …
The Government Regulation That’s Been Killing for 50 Years
By the end of the week, 1,700 liberty lovers are expected to stop in at Roger’s Campground in Lancaster, N.H., to see what the …
The Republican Socialists
The collective fondness for presidents grows after they leave office for a simple reason. The next occupant of the office is always worse. For …
Inside Ben Bernanke’s Doomsday Device
Where things stood at the close of last week: Dow down 105, gold up $9 an ounce. Nothing worthy of comment, in other words. …
A Democrat, a Union, and Myriad Businesses See Chaos in Obamacare
Perhaps the question is no longer if Obamacare will wreak havoc on the American economy. Instead, the query seems to have morphed into something …
Cryptography and the Money We Use
When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden wanted to talk to reporter Glenn Greenwald, he insisted that they use encrypted chat. Unfortunately, Greenwald didn’t know how …
Turmoil Coming: How to Survive and Thrive
I was in Paris one time, in a park near the Louvre museum, enjoying a lazy summer day. I wasn’t the only one with …
The Woman Who Changed Millions of Lives
In this age of Obamacare, the writings of Ayn Rand are inspiring some doctors to push back. A small, but growing group of doctors …
Real Markets and Real Economics
I just spoke to a friend, Skinner Layne, who is from Arkansas, but now lives in Santiago, Chile. He emigrated there and is now …
“If They Want to Get You, They Will Get You in Time”
What a weekend it’s been, like watching a global prizefight of epic proportions, with every conceivable side throwing the hardest possible punches. It began …
Democracy Is Inherently Broken
Like the U.S., many democratic nations are suffering from permanently high unemployment, staggering public debts and budget deficits, and a deep economic recession. Although …
The Big Drag on the Rest of Us
It’s second-term scandal season in Washington, D.C. The folks at Fox are eating it up. But over at MSNBC, not so much. First it …