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The best thing about this Bloomberg Businessweek article is actually the graphic and headlines that didn’t make it into the online version. Under the headline “What’s in the Innovation Sandwich?”…
A weekend edition of one of the state’s largest newspapers carried a short wire-service article with the following headline: “Congress on pace to pass fewer laws than ever.” The article…
This is getting quite a bit of play. Another statist writer who has taken it up is E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post, whom I regard as an utterly…
Tom Woods smacks down a Salon writer who claims to have posed “the question libertarians can’t answer.”
Tom Woods provides here a good list of the books you need to read if you want to understand economics and the impact of government intervention.
9:30 a.m. David Stockman How Crony Capitalism Corrupts the Free Market 10:00 a.m. Walter Block Fractional Reserve Banking 10:45 a.m. Douglas French TAG: Unlimited Insurance, Unlimited Risk 11:15 a.m. Peter…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek labels this year’s crop of Capitol Hill bigwigs the “Doing-a-Lot-of-Nothing Congress” because lawmakers have sent “only 54 bills” to President Obama. The magazine labels most of…
That is Walter Williams’ argument in this column. Civil disobedience is merited for laws that unconstitutionally restrict freedom. That was the case with regard to the Fugitive Slave Act in the…
Known for his clear writing, the late economist Irving Fisher might not appreciate that the most important element of a brief Bloomberg Businessweek article about his legacy is buried in…
Readers of Thomas Sowell’s Housing Boom and Bust are likely to cringe when they read the opening of this Bloomberg Businessweek article: Lawmakers began 2011 with sweeping ambitions to shrink…
Tom Woods refutes the latest feeble attack on libertarian thinking and in this case, Rep. Ron Paul specifically, here.
The following information from Bloomberg Businessweek is scary enough: For sale or rent by distressed owner: 248,000 homes. That’s how many residential properties the U.S. government now has in its…