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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 …
Laissez-Faire Today
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 …