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, …
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 …
Obama Is Wrong about the Hoover Dam
In his famous “you didn’t build it” speech, President Obama cited the Internet, fire departments, the GI Bill, the Golden Gate Bridge and the …
Markets Tell the Truth
People can’t get enough of predictions. There is that basic human desire to know the future and capitalize on it. People especially like hearing …
Report from an Underwater Wasteland
Christine Lagarde, the head fixer at the International Monetary Fund, says U.S. policymakers need to be more aggressive in dispensing medication to boost America’s …
Why Isabel Paterson Is Great
Isabel Paterson’s The God of the Machine (this week’s Club release) was one of four magisterial libertarian works to be published in the dark …
Democracy Reaches Its Limit
Government finance at all levels seems to be unraveling. The city of Stockton, California, declared bankruptcy. North Las Vegas, Nevada, would be in the …
Finally, the Truth about Health Care
Nothing starts a fistfight like the health-care debate. The market for what is just a basic service has been contorted and mangled by government …