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Victory in Iraq?
There is no peace treaty, no humbled enemy, no national glory and certainly no newfound freedom. The “liberation” of Iraq leaves a widely hated …
Laissez-Faire Today
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 …