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Greece: The Canary in the U.S. Coal Mine?
by Steven Horwitz

With everything that was going on in the U.S. economy this past winter, the beginnings of the crisis... 

Yet Again with the National ID
by Becky Akers

Fresh from their defeat in forcing national identity papers on us with REAL ID, the feds are trying once... 

Why Doctors Don’t Want Free-Market Medicine
by Theodore Levy

You may have heard that the AMA and “America’s physicians” favor universal health care. That’s... 

A Free-Market Energy Vision
by Robert L. Bradley Jr.

Energy is the master resource. Without it other resources could not be produced or consumed. Even energy... 

Are Profits Fit Only for Serfs and Slaves?
by Richard W. Fulmer

In their recent book, From Poverty to Prosperity, Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz relate that ancient Romans... 

The Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
by James A. Dorn

The recent financial crisis has expanded the power of government. Tea parties have revealed the disillusion... 

Subsidizing More College Students Won’t Help the Economy
by George C. Leef

Governments in the United States subsidize college education heavily. State universities charge students... 

More Border-Picture Economics
by T. Norman Van Cott

I suggested in the May issue that an aerial photograph of the border between barren Haiti and the heavily... 

Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
by Arnold Kling

Daniel Callahan has written a bracing and exasperating book on health care policy. It is bracing in its... 

The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
by E. Frank Stephenson

If you had a childhood interest in pirates and a teenage love for economics, what would you do as an... 

Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation
by George C. Leef

Karl Marx was right—sort of. He was right in saying that society is riven by class warfare, but he... 

Whatever Happened to Thrift? Why Americans Don’t Save and What to Do about It
by Robert P. Murphy

Keynesianism is back in vogue, and prominent economists are dusting off their discussions of the “paradox... 

Politicians Smother Cities
by John Stossel

I like my hometown, but I must admit that New York has problems: high taxes, noise, traffic. Forbes magazine... 

Good Economists, Bad Economists, and Walmart
by Lawrence W. Reed

Good economists are seldom popular with the political class. This is not unique to democratic systems;... 

The Art and Science of Pseudology
by Thomas S. Szasz M.D.

The common belief that the scientist’s job is to reveal the secrets of nature is erroneous. Nature... 

Foreign Lenders: Friends Indeed to a U.S. Treasury in Need
by Robert Higgs

When the U.S. government wishes to spend more money than it receives as tax revenue, it covers the shortfall... 

Government as Consumer
by Sheldon Richman

Destutt de Tracy, as I discussed in the June issue, was a French economist whom Thomas Jefferson did... 

Unions Lose Respect
by Charles W. Baird

I have often argued that American labor unions enjoy much more respect than they deserve. In February... 

The Government Turns on Goldman Sachs
by Sheldon Richman

Goldman Sachs took a beating during the spring.  The SEC and a Senate committee were investigating whether... 

Higher Income Taxes Are Benign?
by Jeb Bleckly

In a recent issue of the online magazine Slate, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer attempts to debunk...