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Government Is Shrinking?
In today’s political climate, the more implausible the claim, the more likely it is to stick. One that seems to be sticking now is …
Laissez-Faire Today
Own Guns, So that I Don’t Have To
While attending the Agora Financial Symposium in Vancouver, I became aware that Americans enjoy some rights that Canadians do not: among them, the limited …
Mises Can Save the World
If they had listened to Mises in 1927, the world might have been saved. There would have been no Holocaust, Gulag, bombing of civilians, …
Bernanke: Drug Pusher
Real economic growth has slowed to stall, even according to the official data. What will the central bank do now? Ben Bernanke says,”the FOMC …
Floods of Fake Money
Vancouver is a wonderful place, a clean metropolitan city featuring both breathtaking scenery and fascinating diversity. The place is no longer cheap, a lesson …
Condo Crazy: Canadian Edition
I’m here in Vancouver for Agora’s Financial Symposium, where there will be plenty of discussion of booms, busts and stagnation. Watching BNN this morning, …
Business Begging for Life
Even in this seemingly permanent recession, government is intensifying its regulation, taxation and harassment of regular business people. Business pages are filling up with …
The Financial Fish Rots From the Top Down
In The Dark Knight Rises, a cruel strongman rallies the people of Gotham against the corruption of the elites, instituting a violent dictatorship in …
Where the State Is Nowhere to Be Seen
There were plenty of big names speaking at FreedomFest in Las Vegas last week. There were TV talking heads like Steve Forbes and Andrew …
The Miracle at Mon Ami Gabi
I became lost the other day, wandering around in Mon Ami Gabi, an upscale French restaurant situated within Las Vegas’ Paris Hotel. Standing somewhere …