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- Are Greedy Corporations Really to Blame for Higher Prices?
- CEOs Are Increasingly Concerned About the National Debt
- Why the 2024 Election Misses the Mark on America’s Most Critical Issue
- Japan’s Lesson on Government Debt Levels
- The Nature of the Union: A Response to Mark Pulliam
- The United States Has Always Been a Melting Pot
- How to Fix California’s Teacher Shortage
- Why Economic Sanctions Continue Despite Their Failure
- What Would Kamala Harris’s FDA Look Like?
- Proposed Congressional Insider Trading Ban
- Donald Trump’s Forgotten Plan to Tax Wealth
- The Controversy Surrounding Microdosing Chocolate Bars
- Europe’s Resurgent Far-Right
- What Biden’s Decision Shows About Democratic Government
- The IRS and the Scale of Fraud during the Pandemic
- Baseball’s Designated Hitter Rule Encourages “Beanball”
- Trudeau Faces Major Setback in Toronto–St. Paul’s By-Election
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell Warns About U.S. Fiscal Policy’s Unsustainable Path
- The End of Restaurants as We Know Them?
- Day of Reckoning for Social Security Draws Closer
- Robert L. Formaini (1945-2024): A Defender of Letting the Individual Choose
- Machado: A Beacon of Hope in Venezuela’s Political Crisis
- Chevron Deference Is No More
- Jury Trials and the Administrative State: SEC v. Jarkesy
- How the Grants Pass Decision Shapes Local Approaches to Homeless Encampments
- California Advances Bills to Ban Thicker, Reusable Plastic Bags That It Previously Required
- Interest on National Debt Surpasses Defense Spending
- America’s Surging Deficit Spending
- Milei and Steering Argentina Toward Economic Stability
- The FDA Is Coming After Microdosing Chocolate Bars
- Myths about the U.S. Constitution and Individual Rights That Erode Civil Society
- Why Are So Many Food and Beverage Products Being Recalled?
- Proposed APRA Bill Is a Bad Attempt at Data Privacy Protection
- The Dollar and its Domestic Enemies
- The “Worst Fiscal Blunder” in U.S. Treasury History
- The Long and Winding Road to Socialism
- California’s Video Game Data Collection Law: A Step Too Far?
- Wind Subsidies Are Rising…
- The National Debt Is Becoming a Public Health Threat
- The Art of Democratic Warmaking: A Recipe
- Tough Times for the Voices of Freedom in Georgia
- Forecasting Interest Rates
- DeLong’s Slouching Towards Utopia
- Can the U.S. Tax Its Way to Fiscal Health?
- The Fed Will Not Meet Its Inflation Target in 2024
- Proposed California Law to Protect Neurorights?
- Is Europe Headed Towards the Extreme Right?
- California High-Speed Rail Celebrates Completing Bridge to Nowhere
- Canadian Bill C-63 Creates a Kangaroo Court
- The Ratchet Effect on the Fed’s Balance Sheet
- The FDA Is Not a Referee
- TSA Failure
- Less Marx, More Mises
- Trump, Jackson, and the Deep State
- President Biden’s Costly New Student Loan Relief Scheme
- Will the Blundering FDA Receive More Power?
- The Oakland A’s Stadium Shenanigans
- DEA and FDA Duke it Out Over Marijuana Scheduling
- Obamacare, Student Loans, and the End of Empire
- Canada’s Healthcare System Can’t Keep Track of Patients and Is Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
- Apple and Lina Khan’s Antitrust Antics
- Interest on National Debt Becoming Uncle Sam’s Biggest Bill
- Ecuador’s Undiplomatic Basta!
- You Can’t Spend Your Way Out of an Opioid Crisis
- “There They Go Again:” Stamp Prices to Rise by a Nickel
- Phantom Parrot and the Orwellian Reality of Surveillance
- The DOE Transformer Steel Rule
- Fiscal Future Is Not Bright: A Simulation Study of U.S. National Debt
- Fixing California’s Growing Insurance Crisis
- California’s High-Speed Rail Continues to be a Trainwreck
- Tipping Point: CBO Director’s Warning on America’s Fiscal Path
- Fiscal Federalism Turned Upside-Down
- A Proposed Amendment to California’s Constitution to Resolve the Housing Affordability Crisis
- Congress Should Reject Biden’s $7.3T Budget Proposal
- Why Is the National Debt So Big?
- Murthy v. Missouri Puts Government Censorship on Trial
- Unsustainable Spending Runs Wild in Biden Budget
- The Politics of Inflation
- As Regulators Fight Big Tech Mergers, Startups Often Pay the Price
- Another Year, Another Crisis
- Borrowing $10 Billion a Day, Every Day
- President Biden’s Climate Aspirations
- Wendy’s Won’t Use Dynamic Pricing—But Should They?
- Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud
- Tariff Truths
- Would Taxing the Rich More Fix the National Debt?
- Fiscal Commission to Focus on National Debt Taking Shape in U.S. Congress
- Why Shareholder Firms Tend to Persist Over Worker-Owned Models
- Is America Fiddling While Rome Burns?
- This Time Isn’t Different
- The Perils of Running a Restaurant (or Any Business) in California
- Nevada’s Bet on the Oakland A’s Is Causing Buyer’s Remorse
- Stock Traders in Congress Beat the Market Again
- States’ Rights Resurgence: Greg Abbott and the Constitutional Compact
- The Black Cloud in Jobs Growth’s Silver Lining
- Total Interest on U.S. National Debt Now Exceeds $1 Trillion a Year
- The Plastic Bag Racket
- The Limitations of OPEC
- The Canadian Government’s Ministry of Truth
- Immigration Fiasco: Texas Loses SCOTUS Battle but Could Win the War
- Did Healthcare Spending Really Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels?
- SCOTUS, Camping Ordinances, and the Eighth Amendment
- Another Infant Formula Shortage? Blame the FDA
- Biden Administration Proposes Regulating Bank Overdraft Fees
- Javier Milei’s Chainsaw Plan and the Five Principles of Oppression
- Off to a Bad Start
- We Got Housing Built after the 1906 Quake. We Can Do It Again. Here’s How.
- MLK’s Philosophy was Rooted in the Natural Law Tradition
- Taylor Swift Enterprising Artistry Shows Through in Eras Tour Concert Film
- Bipartisan Budget Deal Fails to Rein in Spending
- James D. Gwartney: 1940-2024
- $34 Trillion and Climbing
- U-Haulnomics
- When Liberal Became a Political Adjective
- The Ongoing Legal Battle: Biometrics, 5th Amendment, and Phone Decryption
- The Problem With the Power Plant Rule
- California Would Have Low-Cost Housing If Government Allowed It: The Mortenson Experiment
- Exposing Wasteful Spending of the U.S. Government: The Festivus Report
- The Costs of Federal Regulations
- Millions of Federal Regulations
- Geofence Warrants and Google: A Turning Point in Digital Privacy
- The Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals Have a Plan: It Shouldn’t Surprise You
- Constitutional Fidelity vs. Personal Conscience: Sandra Day O’Connor’s Legacy
- Milei´s Ode to Sacrifice
- Gene Therapy: A Promising Medical Frontier Hindered by Regulatory Roadblocks
- Secretary Cardona’s Quagmire
- Dissecting San Francisco’s Housing Crisis: The Evolution of the City’s Discretionary Permit System
- Who Should Decide if Weight-Loss Injections Should be Prescribed for Kids?
- Visualizing the National Debt
- “Men Shall Rise on Steppingstones of Their Dead Selves”
- Section 702 Created a Backdoor Search Loophole
- How Would a Successful Budget Commission Work?
- The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson
- More Oversight Won’t Help the US Baby Formula Market
- Buttigieg Boosts New Marshall Plan—For Ukraine
- The FDA Should Stay Away from Laboratory Developed Tests
- No More Excuses: Dollarize Argentina
- Moody’s Puts U.S. Government’s Last AAA Credit Score in Jeopardy
- Total Interest on National Debt Approaching $1 Trillion
- From High-Flying Journeys to Grounded Reality: The House’s Bold Move on Buttigieg’s Salary
- Pandemic Boat Market Economics
- Stop Mandatory Time Changes
- Biden’s New AI Executive Order Will Harm Consumers
- San Francisco Police Wheel Out Bait Cars, But Do They Reduce Vehicle Thefts?
- From Controversy to New Opportunities: Jordan Peterson’s Quest for Open Dialogue
- How Do Your Kids Create Wealth by Trading Halloween Candy?
- Do Shortages Signal the Fragility of Free Trade?
- The Smoke and Mirrors of Government Spending in 2023
- Can a President Pardon Himself?
- “The Path We’re on Is Unsustainable”
- When Will the National Debt Burden Become Unsustainable?
- Drowning in Debt: Argentina’s Economic Quandary
- California’s SB 593 Opens the Door for Urban Renewal 2.0
- We Hold These Truths
- Why Is the Quality of Goods under Central Planning So Bad?
- The Problem With the Power Plant Rule
- A Congressional Failure to Budget
- Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence
- Democrats Decline an Opportunity with Senate Appointment
- Why the Casual Attitude Toward Inflation?
- U.S. Government on Verge of Losing Last AAA Credit Score
- What Would Help Homelessness? Humility at City Hall Would Be a Good Start
- California Needs an Alternative to “Housing First”
- Biden’s Oil Madness
- Legislature Ramps Up Newsom’s Gun Gambit
- The Pandemic is Over, But Pandemic Policies Are Not
- Divorcing Ourselves From Akhil Reed Amar (Part V)
- Can the U.S. Grow Its Way Out of the National Debt?
- President Biden’s Fiscal Train Wreck
- Divorcing Ourselves From Akhil Reed Amar (Part IV)
- Yet Another Reason Why Minimum Wage Studies Might “Fail”
- Divorcing Ourselves from Akhil Reed Amar (Part III)
- Divorcing Ourselves from Akhil Reed Amar (Part II)
- Price Controls Destroy Coasean Bargains
- NIMBY Etymology and Its Connection to the Independent Institute
- Divorcing Ourselves from Akhil Reed Amar (Part I)
- FDA Efforts to Curb Youth Vaping Continue to Come Up Short
- Some Ironies of Labor Day
- A Broken Government Budget Process and What to Do About It
- California Auditor Proclaims Unemployment Agency “High-Risk”
- How Long Will Putin Remain in Power?
- Donald Trump and the Fourteenth Amendment
- The Fed’s Inflation Rate Targeting Is a Sham
- “Worry About the Federal Deficit”
- Uncle Sam’s Credit Downgrade Hits Americans in Pocketbooks
- Murphy’s Law on Loneliness
- The Disney–DeSantis Feud: Avoidable in a Society Rooted in the Natural Law
- Javier Milei and Argentina’s Clarion Call
- My Oppenheimer Reminiscences
- California Department of Incorrections
- The Ludwig von Mises: Catallactic Converter
- The Waste of Federal Government Office Space
- The Lehman Trilogy
- U.S. Government’s Credit Rating Takes a Hit
- From Troubled Beginnings: The Journey of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- What Happens After Social Security’s Trust Fund Runs Out?
- American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan
- CBO Sends Dire Fiscal Message in 2023 Long Term Budget Outlook
- Shielding Buttigieg’s Jet-Set Waste Is a Bipartisan Issue
- Oppenheimer Avoids Easy Answers to the Dilemma of Nuclear War
- Government Hubris, AI Central to Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
- In a Free Economy, Prices Would Be Going Down, Not Up
- Unraveling the Algebra II-Data Science Debate in California K–12 Schools
- Rediscovering Scotland’s Intellectual Triumphs: The Roots of Freedom and Progress
- 303 Creative Preserves Entrepreneurial Spirit of Private Enterprise
- Transportation Shakedown Administration
- The Great Grift of Covid Pandemic Aid
- Minimum Wage Laws Increase Homelessness, New Study Finds
- California’s Very Flawed K-12 Math Framework
- The Inverted Yield Curve and Next US Recession
- The FDA Loosens Blood Donation Restrictions, Finally
- Angel Studios Sets New Standard with Sound of Freedom
- Federal Government to Benefit from Student Loan Ruling
- Affirmative Action: California and the Supreme Court
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Preferences in College Admissions
- The Sideshow Spectacle: Alameda County’s Crackdown on Onlookers
- Unemployment: Somewhere, USA
- Entitled Disney Flexes its Muscles, and Is Offended When DeSantis Responds
- The End of Russia’s Putin Era
- Will Ron DeSantis’s Feud with Disney Be His Political Undoing?
- Recent Attacks on Recreational Marijuana Legalization Are All Smoke
- Can Artificial Intelligence Solve the Socialist Calculation Problem?
- Court Removes Government Claws From Lobster Industry
- Nevada Approves Taxpayer Dollars to Build MLB Stadium
- We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges
- Remembering Silvio Berlusconi, Former Prime Minister of Italy
- How the Debt Ceiling Deal Will Affect the National Debt
- Independent Counsel Indicts Trump
- Julie Su Testifies to House Committee
- Striking Out: Nevada Legislature Leaves Oakland A’s Stadium Funding on the Bench
- Goats and Gig Workers: Lorena Gonzalez’s Impact on Labor in California
- UC Berkeley Brings Chesa Boudin Aboard
- Student Loan Borrowers Get Deeper in Debt from Pause in Payments
- Constitutional Rights at Stake: Assessing California’s Gun Legislation AB-28 and SB-2
- Misinformation Is a Word We Use to Shut You Up
- The Debt Ceiling Deal
- The Supreme Court’s Watershed 9-0 Ruling
- A Rent Control Renaissance Is Underway in the US—and It’s Sure to Make the Housing Shortage Worse
- Eliminating the Debt Ceiling: Is There Anything the 14th Amendment Can’t Do?
- Who Owns Your DNA?
- No Taxes Before 30
- Central Banks—What Lebanon Teaches Us
- The Growing Burden of Old National Debt
- Why Aim for 2% Inflation?
- Fed Expands its Span of Control over U.S. Banks
- CBO Puts Full Price Tag on Biden Student Loan Relief Scheme
- Is Inflation Slowing? A Look Ahead
- Bank Term Funding Program Discounts the Discount Window
- Marrying for Love
- R.I.P. Ze’ev Wurman
- David Hume’s Warning on Forever Wars
- Is it Wise to Fire-Proof Education Bureaucrats?
- First Republic Bank Seized and Sold to JPMorgan Chase
- New Lessons to Learn on the Risks of Sports Stadiums
- Are Insulin Prices About to Drop? The Devil is in the Details
- Controlled Economies are Failed Economies
- To Caesar, What Is Caesar’s, and to the Argentinians, the Dollar
- Washington D.C.’s Excessive Spending Bill Comes Due
- Julie Su, AB-5 Supporter and Inexperienced Nominee, Faces Criticism for Handling of California’s Unemployment Program
- Brazil’s Lula da Silva and His Troubling Friends
- The Oakland A’s Want to Leave for Las Vegas: Lessons on the Risks of Sports Stadiums
- Government Had Access to Private Twitter DMs
- The Wrong Way to Think About Moral Hazard
- Manners, the Coase Theorem, and a Park Bench in London
- U.S. Government’s Fiscal Mid-Year: Record Tax Collections But Huge Deficit
- Outlook for Social Security Worsens
- Artificial Intelligence Versus Lingual Responsibility
- Court Orders Phoenix to Clean Up Homeless Encampments in “The Zone”
- FDIC Deposit Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Boom-and-Bust Cycles
- Alvin Bragg v. Donald Trump: The North American Banana Republic
- The Moral Hazard Emerging From the Fed’s Response to the Failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank
- The Best Investment Managers in the World
- FDA’s Rare Positive Move
- Insulin Price-Caps: A Solution or a Recipe for Rationing?
- Nominees Under Fire: How Biden’s Federal Appointments Sparked Controversy
- What Debt Ceiling?
- A Master Key to Mail Theft: USPS Inefficiency and Inaction Raise Concerns
- Capitalism!
- From Power Struggles to Unity: The Opposition’s Plan to Challenge Maduro in 2024
- Ronald Coase’s Fitting Tribute to Adam Smith
- Following Their Leaders: How Political Anchors Shape Policy Preferences
- True Spirit Lifted by Individual Courage, Tenacity, and Mental Toughness
- New Bill Seeks to Recover COVID Funds Taken by Fraudsters
- Has the Discount Window Mystery been Solved?
- Clear Skies Ahead? Doubts Arise Over Biden’s FAA Pick
- You Can Choose Your Gender, But Not Your Race
- Biden Grows National Debt Per Household by 11% in Two Years
- Nuke Bizzle, Unemployment Fraud, and AB-5: Julie Su’s Concerning Record
- The Fed’s Cost Overruns
- Biden’s Troubling Nomination: Julie Su for Secretary of Labor
- When is a Drug Safe and Effective Enough?
- Veni Vidi Fauci
- President Biden’s Budget Deficit Legacy
- The FTC is Guilty of Violating the Laws that Authorized Its Creation
- Festivus in Spring
- The FDA is Too Little Too Late in Tinkering with Covid-19 Booster Schedules
- Freedom Took a Hit During the Coronavirus Pandemic. Will It Recover?
- Choice Words From Biden
- A Possible Solution for the War in Ukraine
- López Obrador´s Honeymoon With Cuba
- Deregulation Remains Our Best Hope to Combat Alzheimer’s Disease
- The Inflation Outlook: By the Numbers
- Bureaucrats Gone Criminal
- Transportation Secretary Buttigieg Goes Off the Rails
- Former Senior U.S. Department of Education Appointees Defend UNC-Chapel Hill Board, Chastise Accreditors
- China Balloon Back Stories
- 5 Key Questions in Senate Panel’s Hearing on Chinese Spy Balloon
- SBF, the FTX “Crypto Messiah”
- Biden Ignores Nation’s Biggest Problem in State of Union Address
- Don’t Let Storm Lessons Drain Away
- The False Narrative of Tyre Nichols’ Death
- Noncompete Contract Clauses are Agreed-Upon Voluntarily
- Examining the FBI’s Plans for Expansion: A Debate for the Public
- Let the Federal Reserve Board Choose Their Own Chair
- Unfit for the Bench: Judge Bjelkengren’s Lack of Constitutional Knowledge
- The WEF’s War on Your Words and Your Wheels
- Debunking the Myth: Clearing Up Misconceptions About Machine Gun Conversion Devices
- Economics Isn’t
- California’s SB 876: A Missed Opportunity for Education Technology
- Hollywood? No, Ottawa!: The Epidemic of Nepo Babies
- The End of the Road: How the WEF’s Vision Threatens Your Car
- The Treasury’s Debt Ceiling Shell Game
- Paul Johnson and the “North-South” Economic Dialogue
- Evidence that Economic Freedom Improves Outcomes
- The Real Story Behind Peru’s Recent Unrest
- The COVID Studies We Actually Need
- MLK’s Philosophy was Rooted in the Natural Law Tradition
- Can Family Theme Push Avatar: The Way of Water to Blockbuster Profitability?
- Buttigieg Continues Wasteful Government Jet-Set Ways
- Single Subject Bills
- Gasping for Gas: The Risks of Relying on Electric Stoves During Blackouts
- Fiscal Responsibility at the Forefront of McCarthy’s Speaker of the House Bid
- The Dark Side of Bill C-11: How it Could Silence Canadian Voices
- “Distrust of Government is Bad for You,” Part Deux
- MyGovCost: How Much Will Gov Cost You?
- Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark—ALPRs
- Non-Prophet New Year
- Twas the Night Before Omnibus
- Blonde Deprives Marilyn Monroe of the Dignity She Earned
- Thinktanks Alarmed by “Rapidly Growing Death Spiral” for National Debt
- Independent Institute Research Vindicates DeSantis Ed Reform: National Review
- “Distrust of Government” is Bad for You, Claims Study
- Is “Elf on the Shelf” Normalizing Surveillance for Children?
- The U.S. Economy and the Failure of Keynesian Thought
- Inflating Away the National Debt
- The War in Ukraine: A View from Georgia
- Interest Rate Hike Sets Uncle Sam on Collision Course With Fiscal Reckoning
- The Governmentalization of Social Affairs
- Donald Trump, Election Fraud, and Cato’s Letters
- Wakanda Forever Charts Risky Course in Marvel Universe
- In the Wake of Twitter Revelations, Don’t Forget Facebook
- Fed Slows Interest Rate Bump, Raises Rates by 0.5 Points
- Pete Buttigieg, a Frequent Flier on Taxpayer-funded Private Jets
- Something’s Not Adding Up
- Privacy in the Digital Era: Who Controls Private Data?
- Tracking Truckers
- Keeping Track of President Biden’s Spending
- How NIAID Reforms Could Set an Example for Other Agencies
- Here Is How the FDA Made the RSV Wave More Dangerous
- Burke’s Scattered Hints Concerning Philosophy and Learning
- How We Recraft Dr. Fauci’s Position Matters So Much
- Klaus Schwab Proclaims China a “Role Model” for Many Nations
- Why Does Dr. Fauci’s Replacement Matter So Much?
- How California Is Burning a $100 Billion Surplus
- Spielberg Chooses Art Over Biography to Elevate The Fabelmans
- Mental Health Is in Crisis. What Is the Answer?
- The Pilgrims’ Real Thanksgiving Lesson
- Karen Bass’ Past Matters
- Charter Schools Provide More Choice
- The False Face of SBF, FTX, and ESG
- Where Did 2022’s Extra National Debt Growth Come From?
- Qatar Takes Center Stage with World Cup
- What Happens When You Google ‘Capitalism Fights Racism’
- The Rise of the Police-Advertiser
- Rename Fort Hood After a Woman
- Federal Regulations Explode Under Biden
- Why America Is Less Free
- Biden’s Embarrassing Social Security Tweet
- Are We in a Fiscal Doom Loop?
- Stop the Madness of Mandatory Time Changes!
- The Fed Is Doing the Right Thing
- Vote Selling and Voter Behavior
- California Propositions 2022: What’s on the November ballot?
- Three More Months of the Ratchet Effect?
- Two Cheers for Approval of New Desalination Plant in Orange County
- Economic Growth, Bad Science and Climate Alarmism
- Government and the Ultimate Inside Stock Traders
- Breaking Down the National Debt
- Are You Voting for a Candidate or a Political Party?
- Bernanke’s Nobel effect
- School Choice Milestone Calls for New Approach
- Don’t Let the FDA Tell You What’s Healthy
- California’s Proposition 1 Is Perverse Virtue-Signaling
- Social Security’s 8.7% COLA Will Protect Retirees From Inflation, but Will Hasten Program’s Insolvency
- What is Populism?
- National Controversy over Nationwide Injunctions
- A Foreword to Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- There’s No Such Thing as Free Breastmilk
- New Federal and State Court Rulings on Phone Searches
- California’s Zombie Bullet Train Lurches Along
- Ticking Down to a National Debt Crisis
- Why Aren’t West Coast Ports Booming?
- Highway Heist
- State Department of Nepotism
- Your Household’s Share of the National Debt
- Dr. Fauci Profiteered from the Pandemic
- Fed Boss Powell Railroads Workers
- Inflation is Unlikely to Improve Before Things Get Worse
- How Politics in San Francisco Deepens the City’s Housing Crisis
- Interest Rates and the First Rule of Holes
- State Vehicle Inspections
- Biden’s “Cancer Moonshot” Boosts Bureaucracy
- President Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Scheme
- Progressives, Leave the Senate Alone
- Former SF Public Works Director Gets Prison Time
- Economic Freedom Falls in the United States, Global Report Shows
- Price Controls: The Greatest Hits
- A Century of Advocating for Peace: Join Us!
- Pandemic “Learning Loss” Actually Reveals More About Schooling Than Learning
- Fauci and White Coat Censorship On Trial
- Tribalism and Electoral Politics
- What’s the Issue with Classical Liberalism and Religion?
- America’s Coming National Debt Crisis
- Heat Wave Pulls the Plug on Electric Cars
- President Biden’s Big, Bad Deal
- Reducing Inflation with More Inflation
- Addressing Inequality
- A Law Enforcement Officer’s Take on Independent Institute’s ALPR Report
- New York Was Wrong to Close the Indian Point Plant
- Biden Djokovic Ban, and a Possible Free-Market Solution
- Biden’s Student Loan Dilemma and the Political Business Cycle
- “Beast Mode” IRS Already Armed and Dangerous
- Diamonds are Forever
- California’s Forests Are on Fire … Again
- Where Does Congress Get Its Subpoena Power?
- Ruby Ridge Remembered
- The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
- Brittney Griner and Tameka Drummer
- Uncle Sam’s Stealthy Plan to Force Americans to Pay Higher Taxes
- Russia & Ukraine: Background to Conflict
- Fauci and CDC Won’t Admit Mistakes
- What John Oliver Gets Right (and Wrong) about Inflation
- Why Did it Take So Long for the US to Get the Novavax Vaccine?
- Dr. Fauci Quarantines Truth, Common Sense, and Accountability
- Government COVID Blunders Continue With Monkeypox
- The Economy is Under-Regulated and Increasingly So
- Congress Is Supersizing the IRS. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Everyday Americans
- The Fastest Growing Category of Government Spending
- Gov. Newsom Revives Delta Tunnel Project
- The Biden Administration Says US Not in a Recession, but Federal Statutes Say Otherwise. Who is Right?
- The Gray Man, Harvard Elites and State-Sponsored Murder
- CBO Identifies the Biggest Fiscal Threat to Americans
- How High Can Uncle Sam Afford Interest Rates to Rise?
- Newsom Appoints Failed “Energy Czar” to UC Board of Regents
- The Black Phone’s Christian Themes
- Entry Barriers: A Personal Disappreciation
- No Demise for Failed, Wasteful Federal Department of Education
- The Return of Carlos Rangel
- 75% of PPP Wasted
- More Crazy, Stupid Wasteful Government Spending
- Minneapolis Cop Who Fatally Shot Woman Gets off Light
- Will Google Ever Lose its Monopoly?
- CODA’s Middle American Heart Upends Industry Heavyweights
- Prices and Choosing a Target Inflation Rate
- SCOTUS, Statutory Delegation and the EPA
- Rethinking Regulatory Capture
- Independent Institute Scholars Spar Over Abortion Ruling
- California Getting First Look at New Law on Police Equipment
- SCOTUS v. CFPB Could Restore Self-Government
- Is Classical Liberalism Anti-Democratic?
- Governor Newsom Urges Floridians to Move to California
- Another Look at California’s Inflation Relief Scheme
- Will California’s $17 Billion Relief Package Reduce Inflation?
- Roe Reversed. Abortion Issues Returned to the States?
- Elvis Movie Tells Cautionary Story of Conflicting Interest and Ambition
- Sri Lanka’s Cautionary Tale: Death by National Debt
- Big SCOTUS Win for Second Amendment
- Why Studying Economics Instills Gratitude
- What Francis Fukuyama Gets Wrong
- Problems With Jimmy Carter-Joe Biden Comparisons
- Jurassic World: Dominion Falters on Heavy-Handed Eco-Disaster Message
- Biden Regulations Adding to Cost of Inflation
- The Case of Jeanine Añez
- Fauci and the Highest Stage of White Coat Supremacy
- Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Antitrust
- California’s State Psychiatrists and Taxpayers
- Arrival of High Inflation Sets Up Stagflationary Debt Crisis
- Social Security Benefits Will Not Be Cut
- Adam Smith, Technology, and Liberty
- Automated Decision Making Regulations
- The Research Interests of Academic Economists: Part II
- The Research Interests of Academic Economists, Part I
- Social Security Benefit Cuts Coming by 2035
- California Senate Aims to Make Schools More Dangerous
- Top Gun Maverick Soars With Drama and Action
- Monkeypox and Leviathan?
- Mass Shootings and Gun Violence: Why Buffalo? Why Uvalde?
- How the U.S. Forest Service Set New Mexico Ablaze
- The Costs of Playing Kick the Can with the National Debt
- Surveillance Transparency Report Documents Wide FBI Reach
- Economic Liberalization Stammers in Latin America
- A Proposed Amendment to California’s Constitution to Resolve the Housing Affordability Crisis
- Coastal Commission Ramps Up State Water Deficit
- You Are a Soul
- What Makes You My Enemy?
- Protecting Unalienable Rights
- Biden’s Deficit Shrinking Claim Fails Fact Check
- Conflicts of Interest at the National Institutes of Health
- My Thank You to David Theroux
- The Myth That Sports Stadiums Create New Jobs and Tax Revenues
- A Misguided “Take the Pledge” Campaign at University of California, Irvine
- Treasury Secretary Admits Biden Spending Programs “Feed” Inflation
- Gas, Guns, and Government Lunacy
- Ambiguity With the Dobbs Supreme Court Abortion Case
- Proposal Aims to Bolster Student Privacy in California
- Government Is Failing to Fix Homelessness with Housing
- Inflation Not Caused by Rising Wages
- SCOTUS Overturning Roe v. Wade?
- Disinformation Governance Board Comes as No Surprise
- What Will Musk’s Twitter Policies Look Like?
- My Meeting with David Theroux
- Remembering the Life of David J. Theroux (1949–2022)
- More Bad News on Gas and Water for California
- Some Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Was Inside Job
- The CDC and Unmasking White Coat Supremacy
- Vaccines and Operation Warp Speed
- Are EUAs Deregulation or Regulatory Capture?
- International Disorder: Ukraine Edition
- Masks and the Lack of Trust in the CDC
- C.S. Lewis on Recovering the Way Forward
- It’s Monetary Inflation, Stupid
- Back in the USSR
- The Origin of Bidenflation
- Court Holds Geofence Warrant Unconstitutional
- “The Biggest Fraud in a Generation”
- Obama White House Appearance Invites Review of ACA
- Malcolm Muggeridge Stages a Timely Comeback
- New World Order and Joe Biden
- The Abolition of Man
- Return of Pork Barrel Politics: The Biden Budget Failure
- No, Will Smith’s Assault at the Oscars Was Not “The Most Beautiful Thing”
- Billionaire Tax Proposed by Biden
- New Tax on House Flippers Will Not Increase Housing Supply
- Putin Has the MAD Advantage
- The Real Cause of America’s Looming Food Shortage
- Communist History Month in California
- Do Voters Make Poor Choices?
- Joe Biden’s Supreme Court Social Experiment
- Is Federal COVID Aid Setting Schools Up to Fail?
- Putin and the Rehabilitation of Europe’s Populists
- Will Dr. Fauci Finally Get Downsized?
- William Barr’s Book Reveals More Than It Shows
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- How to Cut One Trillion from the U.S. Budget Deficit
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- California’s High-Speed Rail Authority Wins Dishonor of the California Golden Fleece Award
- Obamacare’s Unintended Consequences: People Buy Short-Term Policies
- Guard Your Liberty
- Chicken and Egg in Consumer-Driven Health Care
- Medicare Pays for Prevention – For the First Time
- Statism—the Broken Window Fallacy Writ Large
- Reconsidering “Must Vote” Arguments
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Confirms Obamacare Death Spiral
- Beware Survivorship Bias
- Trump’s Health Reform Won’t “Make America Great Again”—or Do Anything
- The Constitutional Economics of the “Divergent” Films
- Ideology—a Lens with Blinders
- The Myth of All-Payer Claims Databases
- Apple Encryption and the Erosion of Privacy
- Here’s an Argument for Not Nationalizing Health Care
- Two-Thirds of Patients’ Hospital Debts Are Unpaid
- Say No to Reparations: Remembering Slavery, Forgetting the Classical-Liberal Values that Abolished It
- Obamacare Exchange Plans Lose One-Fourth of Enrollees in 2015
- Apple Shrugs?
- Can the State Enforce Virtuous Behavior?
- Nonvoter Manifesto: Don’t Vote!
- Are NYC Stabbings the Result of Gun Control?
- Why the Worst Get on Top: Comparative Advantage
- Obamacare’s Death Panel: Deferred, but Not Dismissed
- How Not to Make America Great Again
- What Is Consent? Edison’s Light Bulb
- Traditional Medicare Is Disappearing Faster than Expected: Does It Matter?
- So You Think Public Education Is Failing? It Helps to Understand Its Goals
- Giancarlo Ibárgüen S. (1963 – 2016): A Champion of Liberty
- Title IX Privacy Ban Thwarts Campus Sexual Assault Policies
- Trumped on Health Care!
- Why the Disadvantaged Bear the Cost of Police Militarization
- The USA Is Going to the Dogs, as It Always Has in the Past
- Ten Percent of Cancer Drug Spending Is Wasted
- Why Bernie Sanders Is Morally Unfit to Be President
- The Big Short’s Oscar Win and Capitalism in Film
- Michelle Obama’s School Lunches Get an “F”
- Evo Morales and the Populist Domino
- Massive Fraud Likely in Obamacare Exchange Subsidies
- Populist Fascism and the Politics of Class Resentment
- The “Joy” of Entrepreneurship
- How Socialism is Destroying Baseball in Venezuela
- Who’s the Bigger Witch Doctor? Gerald Friedman or Paul Krugman?
- Fear and Trembling in Phoenix: A Common Core Cautionary Tale, Part I
- Drug Companies’ Pricing Firewall Is Melting
- Keep the Immigrants, Dump Trump’s Immigration Policies
- An Interstate Compact for Health Insurance
- Apple vs. the FBI: Three Reasons to Side with Apple
- The Hot-Air Barrier: A Major Reason for the Infeasibility of Representative Government
- Increasing Medicaid Dependency Does Not Reduce “Uncompensated” Care
- Obama’s Supreme Court Appointment
- The “Bern” Unit
- CBO’s Big Mistakes Highlight Need to Privatize Economic Data Series
- Big Government Creates Political Polarization
- The Benefits of Intellectual Property Protection
- Active Shooter Drills and Terrorizing Children
- Politics Creates Conflict
- Will Congress Fix Its Electronic Health Records Fiasco?
- Trumping Washington Won’t Make America Great Again
- Imprisoning the Messenger
- Section 1332, Where Are You?
- No, Senator Sanders, the Fed Was Always a Creature of Cronyism
- Ted Cruz and Health Reform
- Mandated Paid Maternity Leave . . . Again
- Reflections on National School Choice Week
- On Her 111th Birthday, Ayn Rand on Individual Rights, Liberty, and Government
- Obamacare’s Cost per Beneficiary Explodes with Shrinking Enrollment
- The Truth about Tesla Motors
- Alcohol Prohibition and the Rise of KY Meth Labs
- Private Sector Vigilance, Not Government Regulation, Protects Patients
- Another Reason to Scrap Obamacare’s Exchanges
- “El Chapo,” Cartels, and the Consequences of the War on Drugs
- Time to Privatize Federal Public Land
- Government Investment in Self-Driving Cars: Leading from Behind
- Guess Who Pays the “Slacker Mandate”? Workers with No Kids!
- The 2016 “Handicapper General”
- Is Sean Penn Guilty or Innocent?
- The Difference Between the State Department and Me
- Two Years into Obamacare, No Change in Share of Working-Age Americans with Trouble Paying Medical Bills
- Powerball and the Lucas Critique
- US Drug Laws Destabilize Other Nations
- Health Insurers’ Consensus on Obamacare Is Collapsing
- Friedrichs v. CTA Could End Compulsory Union Dues
- Parental Choice Is a Better Path to Student Proficiency
- New Video on History of Police Militarization
- Dear Mr. Obama: I’m Not the NRA, and Keep Your Hands Off My Gun Rights
- Education Results, Not Spending Rankings, Count Most
- Unpopular Individual Mandate Fails to Make People Buy Insurance
- Barack Obama: Firearms Industry’s Best Friend
- Paying for Drugs: Long-Term Benefits vs. Short-Term Costs
- The Reconciliation Distraction
- Ryan Gosling’s Shorts
- Economics and Resolutions
- Douglass C. North (November 5, 1920 – November 23, 2015)
- Third-Party Bureaucracies Can’t Discipline Healthcare Prices
- French Doctors Lose Strike Against “Free” Health Care
- “Fleeced Navidad” Government Wastes Taxpayer Money Tracking Santa
- What Is Driving Health Prices?
- Congress Set to Deficit-Fund Obamacare by Almost $40 Billion
- The Quality of American Education: Two Types of Evidence
- Why Employer Benefit Costs Are Rising Slowly
- Privatize the Marriage Market
- The Stock Market Reacts to the Fed’s Interest Rate Hike
- Obamacare Crushes Working Class Job Opportunities
- Serpent in the Supreme Court: The Folly of “Strict Scrutiny,” from Japanese Internment to Affirmative Action
- Venezuela’s “New” Government: Don’t Get Too Excited
- “Free They Must Remain”: John Milton’s Enduring Wisdom
- Why Are Prescription Prices Higher in the United States?
- Trading Votes in Congress to Get Everything Politicians Want
- Marcus Welby, Where Are You? The Decline and Fall of House Calls
- Asset Forfeiture and Police Corruption
- One in Five Primary-Care Doctors Not Taking New Medicare Patients
- The Paris Summit on Climate Change: Another Kyoto?
- Prostate Cancer Screening: Can the Government Get It Right?
- The Cost of Obamacare’s “Slacker Mandate”
- A Minor Victory for Privacy: NSA’s Bulk Phone Collection Ends
- Hospital Ownership of Physicians Drives Up Costs
- Giving Thanks for Stores that Open on Thanksgiving
- Police Take More Property from People than Burglars
- How Lord Acton Trumps George Orwell in The Hunger Games
- U.S. Department Flunks Data Security … Again
- Rosa Parks Day: The Triumph of Colorblindness and Capitalism
- The Hobgoblin of Separation of Ownership and Control
- K-12 Course Choice: The Next Evolution in School Choice?
- Health Prices Continue to Rise Faster Than Others
- We Need to End, Not Mend, the ESEA
- Is an Interest Rate Hike Overdue?
- War Is the Antithesis of Freedom
- What “The Hunting Ground” Gets Right and Wrong About Campus Sexual Assault
- Shiller’s Irrational Faith in Government Regulation
- Paid Patriotism: The Artist Formerly Known as “Propaganda”
- Honoring Veterans with Parental Choice in Education
- We Need Free Enterprise in Banking
- University of Missouri Police to Investigate Hurtful Speech
- Rock Star Physician Rebels Against Medicare Bureaucracy
- D.C.’s “Missing” Memorial
- Significant Drop in Private Health Facilities Construction in September
- Right Problem; Wrong Solution. Obama’s Push for Reduced Prison Sentences
- Health Services Accounts for One-Fifth of Weak Q3 GDP Growth
- No More Common Core in Arizona
- High-Deductible Health Insurance Crushes Health Spending
- Israeli Restaurant Owner Uses Market Incentives to Advance Peace
- The Cascading Collapse of Obamacare’s COOPs
- The Silliness Surrounding Mascot Nicknames Continues
- Whistleblower Reveals Drones Are Deadly and Poorly Used
- Children Are Not Creatures of the State: New Hampshire Edition
- Canada’s Turn Left
- Milton Friedman’s Solution for Social Security Would Work for Government Pensions, Too
- Peak Obamacare? We’re There
- Data Show Deflation Except in Health Care (Again)
- Data Show Deflation Except in Health Care
- STD Dating Sites: Helpful or Harmful?
- Debate: Hillary Clinton’s Judgment, as Secretary of State
- Actuary Hands Gift to Pension Reformers
- Smith on Jones
- The Gender Wage Gap–A Myth that (Still) Just Won’t Die
- FDA Driving Drug Prices into Stratosphere
- Safe, Legal, and Rare, Part 3: Rare?
- Health Jobs Dominate Terrible Jobs Report
- Is Seeing Believing in Planned Parenthood Videos?
- Health Construction Spending Picks Up in August
- College Campuses Are Not Gun-Free Zones
- Taxation and Wealth Redistribution as Lowbrow Morality
- Understanding the Climate Science Boom
- Producer Price Index: Big Gap in Hospital Inpatient & Outpatient Prices
- Health Spending an Increasing Share of GDP
- Fossil Fuels Are the Lifeblood of Modern Civilization
- Employee Health Benefits on a Winning Streak?
- Hollywood Joins the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
- Health Plan Deductibles Grew Seven Times Faster Than Wages
- Time for Bond Investors, Especially in Chicago, To “Know What You Own”
- Be Prepared for Active Shooter Threats
- “But They’re Illegal!” The Worst Argument Against Immigration
- Freedom, Fairness, and the Transitional Gains Trap
- Happy Birthday, US Department of Education…Now Go Away
- The Fed’s Interest Rate Hike Is Overdue
- Clinton’s Pitching $350 Billion in “Free” College
- Some Constitution Day Reflections about Government’s Role in Education
- Ronald Coase and the Battle of Breastfeeding
- Is China Really Crashing?
- British National Health Service Stops Paying for Lifesaving Drugs
- U.S. Has Less Economic Freedom than Chile, Jordan, or Taiwan
- Hospital Profits Rise 9 Percent
- Health Services Make Up One-Fourth of August’s New Jobs
- Commonwealth Fund’s Red Herring on Risk Selection in Obamacare
- An Apology to an Immigrant
- What You Don’t Know about Immigrants and Medicaid Usage
- Free Kim Davis… And Fire Her!
- Lessons for Taxpayers from Record Low SAT Scores
- Many Americans Don’t Pay Income Taxes
- California’s Proposed $2 per Pack Excise Tax on Cigarettes
- When Government Fails—Venezuela Edition
- The Mountain of Legal Injustice in the USA
- Health Spending Slows to a Less Alarming Pace
- The Government’s Tax on Peace of Mind
- Obama Is Half Right about Katrina
- Safe, Legal, and Rare, Part 2: Legal?
- Follow the Silk Road
- In Memoriam: Nathan Rosenberg (1927-2015)
- The Decline in R&D Efficiency in the Drug Industry
- Aspirations and Policies
- Bobby Jindal’s Attack on Scott Walker’s Health Plan Is Off-Base
- Anthony de Jasay: Political Philosopher Par Excellence
- CalSTRS Boss Jack Ehnes Deceives Californians About Funding
- Game Developers Face Final Boss: The FDA
- Bundled Payments, Barely Hatched, Go the Way of the Dodo
- The Prime Importance of Private Property Rights
- Victory for Free Speech in Medicine
- In Memoriam: Robert A. Conquest (1917–2015)
- Safe, Legal, and Rare, Part 1: Safe?
- Price Transparency Laws Don’t Work
- A Call to Order in the Hobbesian Jungle
- Obama Supports Worker Freedom?
- Hospital Job Growth Up versus Other Health Jobs
- Democrats and Republicans to Blame for Public Pension Crisis
- Government Failure Compounds Denial in Abortion Policy
- FreedomFest Recap: Why Obamacare Stifles Healthcare Innovation
- Ai Weiwei Goes to London
- New Evidence that Obamacare Is Working?
- Atlas Shrugs
- Tennessee’s Fracking Controversy
- Still Won’t Stand with Rand
- Health Spending Growth Moderate in Second Quarter (Maybe)
- Janet Napolitano Makes History as University of California Pension Reformer
- Medicaid’s Poverty Trap Illustrated
- Remembering Alexis de Tocqueville — and Civil Society in Early America
- Love Gov: “Too Real”?
- Patent Reform Is Not a Left Wing Thing
- Is Denial a Good Basis for Abortion Policy?
- Harassment Ruled a Protected Union Activity
- Will 11 Million Pay Obamacare’s Mandate Penalty?
- Standing with Rand? Maybe Take a Seat.
- Obamacare Exchange Plans Have 34 Percent Fewer Providers than Non-Exchange Plans
- Did 15 Million — Not 6.6 Million — Pay Obamacare’s Mandate Penalty?
- The CSA and Symbols: Learning from History
- Love, Marriage, and Green Cards
- Let’s Hope Arizona’s New Health Law Is Contagious
- Government’s Burden on Young Americans
- None “Heil” Trump
- Ten States Join Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
- Cake Politics
- Zeke Emanuel Hammers Obamacare Again
- Pay Attention to History
- Health Jobs Outpace Soft Employment Report
- Red Light Cameras: Safety or Revenue?
- Oregon Judge Attacks Free Speech in Wake of Obergefell
- What Happened to the Midwives? (Hint: Government)
- Why Frédéric Bastiat Still Matters
- Justices Breyer and Ginsburg Would Hold the Death Penalty Unconstitutional
- 41 Percent of Obamacare Silver Plans Have ‘Small’ or ‘Extra Small’ Networks
- Should Gone with the Wind Be Banned?
- When Thinking about Obergefell We Must Distinguish between Policy and Law
- Libertarians Should Be Cautious in Celebrating Obergefell
- Health Spending as a Share of Personal Consumption Keeps Rising
- The War of Ideas
- CBO: Repealing ACA Would Grow U.S. Economy; Reduce Number of Insured by 10 Million
- Donald Boudreaux’s The Essential Hayek
- Obamacare’s Shrinking Revenues: Medical Device Excise Tax
- Which Countries Prefer Capitalism?
- Just How Bad Has Post-9/11 America Become? Some Insights from Eritrea
- Pennsylvania, Delaware to Identify as State-Based Obamacare Exchanges
- Render unto Caesar: Obama Preaches to Catholic Health Association
- Government’s Demonstrated Security Incompetence Warrants Abolishing Its Powers
- Government Charges Hastert with “Crime” of Withdrawing His Own Money
- Whose Fossil Fuel Use Will G7 Leaders Reduce by 70%?
- New TV Show Sparks Unnecessary Moral Outrage (and Proves People Don’t Understand Basic Economics)
- Health Jobs Double Growth in Jobs Report
- The Avengers of Civil Society?
- Racehorses and Circus Animals — Stifle Your Outrage
- Net Neutrality Can Harm Your Health
- Health Spending Unscathed in Shrinking Economy
- Impacts of Sexual Assault on Civil Society Go Beyond Statistics
- Maybe the Government Just Shouldn’t Ask People if They’re Uninsured
- What Abercrombie and Fitch Can Teach Us about the Same-Sex Marriage Controversy
- Hackers Stole Data from Whom? An Example of Media Bias
- Commonwealth Fund: “Underinsurance” Unchanged under Obamacare
- Planned Rate Hikes Presage a Health Insurance ‘Death Spiral’
- Military Education Savings Accounts: A Great Way to Provide Educational Choice
- Parental Choice Could Help Curb Willful Defiance in School
- “Rape Culture” and the Implications for Liberty on College Campuses
- High U.S. Health Prices from Market Power?
- Progressivism: Rhetoric versus Reality
- The Military’s “Heroes” and the Scourge of Nationalism
- Did a Health Insurer Pay over Ten Times the Self-Pay Price for Outpatient Surgery?
- Patent Trolls Still Alive and Kicking
- Welcome, High School Freshman! Pee in This Cup!
- Health Jobs Grow Twice as Fast in April as Other Jobs
- The Individual Mandate
- Shifting from Quantity to Quality in Patent Applications
- The Ex-Im Bank Redux
- Save the Children. Open the Border
- Obamacare’s Risk Corridors Are Back, and Bigger and Badder than Ever!
- Florida’s Financial Health Care Follies, and a Problem with a Part-Time Legislature
- Obamacare’s State-Based Exchanges Struggle with Surging Costs
- Galeano vs. Rangel: A Conflict of Visions in Latin America
- Why Don’t You Own Your Own Health Information?
- Competition and Cooperation
- Health Spending Crushing a Stalled Economy
- Campaign Finance Reform—After I’m Elected
- Do Drones Degrade al Qa’ida?
- Tax Freedom Day, 2015
- Barack Obama Has the Last Word on the Medicare “Doc Fix”
- Obamacare and Employment
- An Argument for “Selling” Babies
- Is FDA Reporting Drug Shortages Adequately?
- Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?
- Do Drones Really Reduce Civilian Casualties?
- Patent Trolls Suffer Setback
- Two Reasons to Pay Off Public-Employee Pension Debt Quickly
- There Is No Real Increase in Insured under Obamacare
- Google Agonistes
- Employers Do Not Systematically and Persistently Pay Women Less than Men for Equally Valuable Work
- Seven of 10 Doctors See Effects of Climate Change on Patients!
- Another Urban Legend? The Middle Ages Were the “Dark Ages”
- Despite Weak U.S. Employment Numbers Overall, Healthcare Jobs Continue Steady Climb
- Harvard Professor’s Latest ‘Heresy’ Throws Water on Obama EPA’s Climate Policy
- Immigration Policy Is Unjust
- The Gender Wage Gap—A Myth that Just Won’t Die
- Lee Kuan Yew and Singapore’s Transformation from Poor to Prosperous
- Needles of Panic? White House Fears Rejection of Boehner-Pelosi-Obama Medicare “Doc Fix”
- Authority and Easter
- Education Savings Accounts Challenge Common Core’s One-Size-Fits-All Schooling
- Government Union Boss Apparently Equates Valuing Work with Taxpayer Shakedowns
- Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on Humans Becoming Gods, Pets, or Ants
- The U.S.’s Nazi Imports
- Access to Health Care Unchanged after Obamacare’s First Year
- ‘The Hunting Ground,’ Sexual Assault, and the Failure of Civil Society
- More Bad News about the Medicare Doc Fix
- Higher Minimum Wage Leaves Working Poor Without Childcare
- This Doc Fix Is an Outrage
- Are Health Plans That Cover Yoga the ‘Next Frontier’?
- Time to KO the Idea of Boxing Bans
- The “Miracle” of Kirznerian Entrepreneurship
- How Big Is Government in the United States?
- Republicans Split over Patent Reform
- Prostate Cancer Treatment Costs Can Differ by 400 Percent. Here’s Why
- The Costs and Benefits of Ethanol
- Comply or Die – Trends in Modern Policing
- Ratcheting Up for New Water Laws
- Shining Spotlight on Bogus U.C. Berkeley “Think Tank” During National Sunshine Week
- Obamacare Costs Are Shrinking – So Should Its Taxes
- Weak Health Jobs Growth; Mostly in Hospitals and Physicians’ Offices
- Military Aid — “If We Don’t Do It, Someone Else Will”
- A Case for Patent Reform
- Senate Dems: Get Pregnant, Then Get Health Insurance
- The Power Elite
- United States of Fear
- How Much of Federal Transfer Payments Are Obamacare Subsidies? More than You Think!
- Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro Tightens His Grip
- Health Spending Chews Through a Weak Economy
- The Consummate Fallen Angel
- University Responsibility for Sexual Assault
- 50 Shades of Predatory Abuse: The Role of Civil Society
- Half of State Medical Boards Perform Poorly When Licensing Out-of-State Doctors
- Florida’s Fiscal Policy: Responsible State Budgeting
- A-B-C-Don’t Indoctrinate Me
- Why Hasn’t Medicare Advantage Collapsed?
- Are the Ruling Elites in China Now More Pro-market than the Ruling Elites in the USA?
- What Makes a Miserable Country?
- It’s Called Recovery, but Where’s the Beef?
- Let Them Eat Cake
- GAO: Medicare, Medicaid and Veterans Health Administration at High Risk for Fraud, Waste, Abuse
- Obama’s Dangerous Call for Collaboration
- Why Americans Should Celebrate President John Tyler
- On U.S. Foreign Policy
- LAPD Targets Citizens’ Free Speech Rights
- U.S. Government Debt Is Now at a Once-Unimaginable Level
- “Site-Neutral” Medicare Payments: A Good Idea from President Obama’s Budget
- Apocalypse Not: The Legacy of Julian Simon
- Sorry, Your Minimum Wage Law Is a Nightmare
- Modern Tech Suggests Government Data on Police-Related Homicides Flawed
- Politics Is Not Just Spy versus Spy; It’s also Slogan versus Slogan
- Health Care Spending Is Up, Way Up
- I Pledge Allegiance to Blind Nationalism
- Medical-Device Excise Tax Kills Jobs, Obamacare Kills Much More
- Breaking News: The FDA Will Not Regulate Your Kid’s Skateboard
- The Fall of Liberty and Human Dignity in American Sniper
- Controlling the Regulatory State
- How Much Longer Can the U.S. Economy Bear the Burdens?
- Death Valley? Peter Thiel and Steve Jobs on What Could Kill Silicon Valley
- Milton Friedman on “Free” College
- About That CBO Report Claiming Obamacare’s Costs Are Down 20 Percent…
- Humala’s Hatchet Man May Be Key Figure in Peruvian Spy Scandal
- Arkansas: Caving In or Standing Up to Obamacare?
- National School Choice Week Starts Today!
- Peter Thiel’s Contrarian Manifesto
- Are Falling Prices a Bad Thing?
- No U.S. Weapons for Countries with Child Soldiers (Oh, You Have a Waiver?)
- Employers Who Dump Workers onto Medicaid: The New Corporate Welfare Queens?
- The State of the Disunion
- The Moral Argument Governor Brown’s Inaugural Speech Left Out
- Individual Liberties and the Right to Die
- No Jobs Bump from Obamacare
- Self Censorship
- Agonizing over Sports Teams’ Mascot Names
- The Unintended Consequences of Banning the “World’s Oldest Profession”
- One Benefit of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press…
- Obamacare’s Effect on Uninsured Is Trivial
- I, Nutella
- Medicaid Expansion Does Not Create Healthcare Jobs
- Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon’s Base Budget
- Common Core Boosters Trying to Scare States into Keeping National Standards
- Constitutional Federalism Beats Feds’ Bribery of the States
- The TSA: A Brief Tale
- Last week’s GDP Estimate Included a Massive Upward Revision in Health Spending
- NSA’s Keystone Kops Play Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz at Our Peril
- Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Don’t Worry, They’ll Guard Themselves!
- The 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Truce
- Putin’s Collapsing Russia
- Obamacare Premiums Higher in States with ‘Active Purchaser’ Exchanges
- Photo Explaining Obamacare’s Perverse Incentives Is Worth a Thousand Words
- I Can’t Believe There’s No Butter! Bad Trade Policy Burns Christmas Bakers
- Obesity Can Be a Disability, Says European Court of Justice
- If You Like Rights, Liberty, and Economic Opportunity, Celebrate Christmas
- High Taxes, Lack of Federal Bailout Make Vermont Cancel Single-Payer Plan
- Oil and Dictators
- CROmnibus and Cronyism for Blue Health Plans?
- Katniss Everdeen and the Paradox of Revolution
- Normalizing Relations with Cuba: Good Policy
- Student Debt and Default Explode While U.S. Department of Education Fiddles
- Economics 101: Uber’s Prices Don’t “Exploit” People
- The Program No One Dares to Question: Social Security
- The Long Road Back from Torture
- How Obamacare Hurts Its Beneficiaries: Two Vignettes
- All Men Are Brothers, but All Too Often They Do Not Act Accordingly
- Anti-Government Movements
- Hiring in Ambulatory Clinics Back on Track; Other Health Jobs Lagging
- Terror and Torture in the Name of “National Security”
- Professor Gruber Strikes Again
- Gallup: Obamacare Hurting the Middle Class
- The Ferguson Protesters vs. the Liberal Left
- Reauthorized Child Care Block Grant: Another Brick in the Wall for Big Government
- Consumer-Driven Plans Increase Share of Employer-Based Benefits
- Plain Brown Wrappers?
- Raising Arizona: Voters Agree with Incoming Superintendent Diane Douglas that Parents, Not the State, Are Primary in Education
- Love Liberty? Learn to Argue.
- The Biggest Threat to North Korea Might Be Dessert
- Income Inequality Is a Statistical Artifact
- Interstellar Liberty and the Foibles of Progressivism
- Small Business Suffers: The Riots, Past and Present
- “Cadillac Tax” Will Hit 38 Percent of Employers in 2018
- Will Obamacare Hit Its Enrollment Target?
- Stores to Open on Thanksgiving — Don’t Complain.
- I’ll Take Market Forces Over Government Force Any Day
- Students Won’t Be Collateral Damage in California Big Spenders’ Showdown
- Right-to-Try Laws Now in 5 States
- The Anachronistic 1979 Oil Export Ban
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- Your Kaiser Permanente Doctor Will See You Now – At Target
- The End of the American Meth Lab? Don’t Get Too Excited.
- Hiring in Outpatient Clinics Froze Last Month
- American Medical Association Backs Telemedicine Compact
- NYC’s Success Academy Charter Schools Are Beating the Odds . . . and Powerful Unions
- Elizabeth Warren on the Economic Consequences of the Obama Administration
- Obama’s Undisciplined School Discipline Reforms
- Net Neutrality: Pushing on Another Side of the Balloon
- “Net Neutrality” Is an Oxymoron When Government Logs On
- The Case for Victim Justice
- Tap and Track: Not Just for the NSA
- Saudi Arabia Pressures Russia
- Lesson from the Election: People Want Less Government
- The Power of Ideas
- Gordon Tullock and the Transitional Gains Trap
- Third Parties Control 83 Percent of Prescription Drug Spending, Up from 52 Percent in 1993
- Gordon Tullock, R.I.P.
- Gordon Tullock (1922-2014)
- Has Colorado Gone to Pot?
- Administration Continues to Stonewall on Obamacare Exchange Enrollment
- The Malvinas versus Argentina
- Obamacare Premiums Increased Dramatically for Every Age Group in 2014
- Hillary’s Right About Jobs
- Election on Tuesday: Who’s Running?
- Government Buries Evidence of Poor Access to Care under Obamacare
- Distorted Education Attack Ads Hide the Facts
- Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
- 92 Percent of Nurses Are Dissatisfied with Electronic Health Records
- Is Humanitarian Aid Strengthening ISIS?
- Obama Appointee Supports Individual Rights
- Australia to Raise $5 Billion by Privatizing Its Biggest Health Insurer
- Is Medicaid-Associated Overuse of Emergency Departments Just a Surge?
- The Case for Drugstore Clinics
- Happy Birthday, Tea Party!
- Georgia’s Ivory Tower Behavior Modification-istas
- Evading Ebola? Don’t Seal the Border
- Hospital Administrative Costs Are Highest in the United States
- Jean Tirole, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences
- Federal “Open Payments” Website Stumbles Out of the Starting Gate
- Fallujah Fallout: Who Pays the Price?
- A New Obamacare Lawsuit from the Former Top Obamacrat
- Brazil—Back to Normality
- NSA Mission Creep: It’s for the Children
- Amazon’s “Dark Side” Is a Bright Spot for Workers and Consumers
- Debunking Democracy with James M. Buchanan
- Berkeley’s Free Medical Marijuana Plan Shows Economic Thinking Has Gone to Pot
- Florida’s Very Interesting Race for Governor
- U.S. National Defense: Just Another Government Program
- The Free Speech Movement Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary, but the Eternal Battle Between Liberty and Power Goes On
- Obamacare Might Have Enrolled Only 2.3 Million; Spent $73 Billion to Save Less Than $6 Billion in Uncompensated Care
- Individualizing Justice in The Equalizer
- More Evidence That Medicaid Expansion Increases Emergency Department Use
- Fascism Is Efficient, Says Andres Duany, Leading Proponent of “Sustainable Development”
- Hospitals Are Cutting Charity Care and Using Emergency Rooms More
- The Worst (Still) Get on Top
- Coercive Foreign Policies and the Boomerang Effect
- Public Schools and Government Schools
- Coming Soon to California: Teachers’ Right to Work?
- Obamacare Will Devour Your Pay Raise
- Common Core Called the “Obamacare of Education”
- Gaming Gainful Employment
- Jameis Winston . . . Again?
- The Giver’s Dystopia: Total Equality and No Humanity
- Smarter Forest Management Could Yield Water for California’s Population Growth
- A Very Weak Case for Hospital Mergers
- Perfecting Tyranny
- Celebrating Human Action—Ludwig von Mises’s Masterpiece
- Obama’s Latest Hostile Takeover Target: Private Career Colleges
- Never Forget
- Arming Syrian Rebels—Afghanistan Deja Vu?
- Are Students Afraid To Be Free?
- Long-Term Unemployment Benefits Expire; Long-Term Unemployment Falls
- New Study Links Patent Trolls to Decline in R&D Spending and Other Ills
- Misplaced Outrage over the NCAA’s Decision to Reduce Sanctions on Penn State
- After $26 Billion Paid Out, Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records Only 4 Percent of Target
- “Hunger” Games
- Obama: The Unbearable Lightness of Being on Immigration
- Costs of Government Administration of Health Care to Almost Double in Ten Years
- Politics and Inequality
- Obamacare Tax Merry-Go-Round
- Oklahoma: Losing Federal Waiver, Winning Back Rightful Control over Education
- Can Taxpayers Recover Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Obamacare Exchanges?
- A Riverside High School Thinks Dumpster Diving is a Needed Life Skill for Special Education Students
- Competing for Students, Not Federal Funding, Is Still the Best Preschool Policy
- Medicare Fees: The RUC Is Bad, but There’s No Point in Regulating It
- California Senate Arrest Rate Higher Than Any Large California City
- Price Transparency Lowers Healthcare Costs
- Chicago Teachers Union Boss and Classic Champagne Socialism
- Parental Choice, Not Common Core, Is the Key to Academic Accountability
- Imposing Costs on Russia: How about a Food Embargo?
- CalPERS Approves 99 New Ways to Spike California Public Pensions
- NSA “Fatigue”?
- There Is a Market for Human Organs, Whether You Like It or Not
- Prize-winning Mathematician Says Common Core Math Doesn’t Add Up
- Patent Trolls: Their Threat to U.S. Innovation—and the Solutions
- Walmart Shakes Up Primary Care – and the Whole System
- California Lawmakers Mandate Students Study about Obama
- What Is to Be Done with Health-Insurance Exchanges, Post-Obamacare?
- Taking Offense at Every Word or Phrase?
- Obamacare Threatens Free Clinics
- Reflections on the YAL National Convention 2014
- Medicaid’s Financing Merry-Go-Round
- Orwellian Language: Peace Abroad; War at Home
- “Creepy Uncle Sam” Obamacare Care-nival
- Classifying America: Government’s Power to Define Is the Power to Discriminate
- Gov. Brown Invokes Religion to Open the Border, but Path to Faith-based Schools Remains Closed
- Another Federal Mandate—Or, How I Misspent My Summer Vacation
- Gross Domestic Product: Is Health Spending Figured Out?
- Technology Can Make the Regulatory State Obsolete
- The War on Poverty and the War on Drugs
- Muckraker or Special Pleader?
- Sweatshops: Misunderstood Paths Out of Poverty
- Ban Government—Not Sweets—in Schools to Combat Bureaucratic Obesity
- Are Lawsuits Ending or Mending Teacher Tenure?
- Obamacare Architect Warned That Tax Credits Would Be Available Only in States with Exchanges
- A Hundred Years of War
- More States Abandoning the Sinking Common Core Ship
- A Hell of a Pinpoint Operation
- How to Pay for the Next Sovaldi?
- Is Medicaid Crowd-Out the Only Effect of Obamacare?
- Obamacare’s Tax Credits in Jeopardy
- Your Tax Dollars at Work at the Ex-Im Bank
- Gun Violence Is a Consequence of War
- Households Finance Only 70 Percent of Their Own Consumption, Down from 93 Percent in 1959
- “Prize-Grants” or Patents for Pharmaceutical Innovation?
- Tech Companies Work to Tame Patent Trolls without Government Help
- Health Spending Grew Slower in U.S. than in Other Developed Countries, 2007-2011 (but the Trend Won’t Last)
- Reining in the Fed
- Governmental “Reform” Is an Oxymoron
- A “Smart-Growth” Revolt in California
- Gun Control Encore? Someone Picked the Wrong . . .
- NASA’s Children’s Climate Change Website, and the book 1984: Creating Spies One Child at a Time
- Understanding Waiting Times for Health Care
- Rags to Riches (to Rags Again)
- Another Cover-Up? IRS and Social Security Administration Not Cooperating with Obamacare Fraud Investigation
- Burgeoning Regulations Threaten Our Humanity
- Do Private Prisons Make Financial Sense for States?
- Why Hobby Lobby Is Not an Assault on Women
- Ralph Nader’s Unstoppable
- Does the United States Over Diagnose Cancer?
- Political Spam
- Health Spending and First Quarter GDP: What Happened?
- 50 Years of Mischief: The Triumph and Trashing of the Civil Rights Act
- “Risky Business” in Climate Change Policy
- The Independent Review—Summer 2014 Issue Now Available
- Who’s Behind IRS Targeting? Don’t Ask NPR
- Shining Light on Big Brother
- Broken Mirror on the Wall: On the Commonwealth Fund’s Increasingly Frustrating Comparison of International Health Systems
- The Economics of Offensive Trademarks
- Only 53 Percent of Previously Uninsured Obamacare Enrollees Have a Favorable Opinion of Obamacare
- Immigration and Mindless Partisanship
- The Veterans’ Administration Has Been a Disaster Since Its Inception
- New Insights into Iraq
- SCOTUS Affirms That Abstract Ideas Are Not Patent-Eligible
- Is “Redskins” Offensive?
- Patent Troll Hit with Legal Fees
- Enemies of Enemies
- Piketty and Emerging Markets
- World Cup Soccer’s Real Top Rivals: Nationalism versus Globalism
- The Problem with Open Enrollment
- Virginia DMV and Taxi Unions versus Consumers
- Soaring Pension Costs Devour School Budgets in California
- Non-Hospital Healthcare Jobs Are Growing Fast
- Taxpayers Are Shocked to Discover That When They Vote for Government Services, They Have to Pay for Them
- Remembering Tiananmen Square, 25 Years Later
- Is the NDAA Notification Requirement Unconstitutional?
- Would Outlawing Food Stamps for Soda Pop Reduce Obesity?
- No Joke, Paul Krugman Praised Veterans Health System as National Model
- What If More States Had Set Up Their Own Obamacare Exchanges?
- In Defense of Edward Snowden Against John Kerry’s Slanderous Attacks
- Obamacare Motivates Insurers to Shun the Sickest Patients
- Chances Are that You Have No More Expertise in Economics than You Have in Astrophysics
- Do Patients Have a “Right to Try” New Medicines Before the FDA Approves Them?
- For John Kerry, Where He Stands Depends on Where He Sits
- How Valuable Is a Federal Grant?
- Once Again, Government Displaces Real Aid
- Using Marketable Vouchers to Speed Up Drug Approvals
- Big Pharma, Trial Lawyers, and Harry Reid Kill Patent Reform
- Common Core: Raising the Bar-barians
- Stagnation Nation? High School Seniors’ Results on Nation’s Report Card Didn’t Budge
- This Memorial Day Honor Vets with Education Savings Accounts
- Patent Trolls and Trial Lawyers Thwart Patent Reform
- Dining with Stalin
- Apple and Google Announce a Ceasefire in the Patent Wars
- Piketty on Inequality
- Piketty’s Capital: IV
- Obamacare’s “Bailout” of Insurers Is Still a Live, Moving Target
- Disinvitation Season 2014
- India—A New Beginning?
- Medicare’s Physician Payment “Data Dump”: Don’t Stop Now
- Patent Litigation Is No Laughing Matter… Or Is It?
- Wait! You May Not Need to Lop Off So Many Heads
- Piketty’s Capital: III
- Piketty’s Capital: II
- There He Goes Again!
- More Evidence Suggests Obamacare Is Not Driving Hospitals Bankrupt
- Piketty’s Capital: I
- Why Did Health Spending Slow Down Before It Sped Up?
- The Austrian School of Economics
- Four Recent Polls Show Obamacare Extremely Vulnerable
- The Concise Case for Free Speech Against Its Enemies
- Gary S. Becker, R.I.P.
- Government Failure.gov
- Health Care Workforce Continues to Shift Away from Hospitals
- Do You Remember the Sixties?
- New Video with Ron Paul: “Defining Liberty: The Future of Freedom”
- Number of Patient Payments to Healthcare Providers Up 72 Percent in 3 Years
- Why Occupational Licensing Is Unjust, Unneeded, and Increases Income Inequality
- Is the Canadian Middle Class Doing Better than the American Middle Class?
- Elizabeth Warren: “We Are Not Resting Until at Least 50 Senators Are [Millionaire] Women”
- The FDA’s Productivity and Consistency Have Collapsed in a Decade
- Some Basics of State Domination and Public Submission
- Ban “Giving Back”
- Obama’s Push to Recruit Young Adults into Obamacare Falls Short
- What Are the Financial Risks of Being Uninsured?
- Tolstoy’s Remarkable Manifesto on Christian Anarchy and Pacifism
- Want to Start a Private Postsecondary School in California? Good Luck
- Los Angeles County Board of Education Blocks LAUSD “Blackmail” of Charter Schools
- More on Obamacare’s “Bailout” for Health Insurers
- Common Core Makes Simple Math as Complicated as the Tax Code
- Global Poverty and the Tyranny of Experts
- Why Won’t Medicare Pay for Medical Tourism?
- Obamacare’s Cost Is Down 8%, but That May Not Be Good News
- Trapped by the State
- Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Health Reform Proposal: Pros and Cons
- P. J. O’Rourke on the Baby Boom Generation
- Let’s Start a Tax Revolt with Our iPhones
- Uninsured Patients Are 36 Percent More Likely To Get Medical Appointments Than Are Medicaid Patients
- Why Is Obamacare a Rube Goldberg Contraption?
- Medicaid Patients’ Access to Specialists Has Dropped Almost One-Fifth in Five Years
- What Middle East Peace Process?
- Exaggerating the Damage Caused by Climate Change
- Campaign Donations: Freedom of Speech or of the Press?
- Hooray! The Medicare Doc Fix Is Fixed Until Next April!
- Can Obamacare Be Fixed? Part II
- Employer-Based Health Insurance: “Job Lock” Is Not the Problem, “Insurance Lock” Is
- Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality
- The Coming U.S. Government Default?
- This Large Health Insurer Has Effectively Admitted Obamacare Is Failing
- “Pot” Holes?
- Universal Government Preschool: Nilla Wafer Wishes and Juice Box Dreams
- Lessons from a German Homeschooling Family about the Nanny State
- Outside Money in Politics
- Can Obamacare Be Fixed?
- The Independent Review — Spring 2014 Issue Now Available
- Obamacare’s Risk Corridor “Bailout” Just Got Bigger – Much Bigger
- New Faculty for 2014 Challenge of Liberty Student Seminars
- Civic Engagement
- A Better Way to Cut Medicare Spending
- Unlearning Liberty to the Detriment of Us All
- A Snapshot of the Health Care Workforce
- Challenge of Liberty Student Seminars—Application Deadline: March 31
- President Obama’s Investment Skills
- Zeke Speaks Out on McCain and Health Reform
- NSA Chief Recommends Severely Curtailing Spying. Obama Won’t.
- Take the Money and Run? GAO Reports Significant Dropping Out of Government Electronic Health Records Program
- Intergenerational Transfers and Political Support for the Welfare State
- Wars on Everything
- VA and Defense Dept. Electronic Medical Records Can’t Talk to Each Other: $29 Billion Fix Already Abandoned
- Speak Loudly and Carry a Small Stick
- Lankford Introduces Legislation Giving Congressional Authority to Interstate Health Care Compact
- The Double Faustian Minimum Wage Bargain of 2007
- Number of Adults with Consumer-Driven Health Plans Grows to 21 Million
- The Hayekian Liberty of Ender’s Game
- Why Are So Many Economists Confused About Obamacare’s Effects on Jobs?
- Taxpayers Get Forked Again
- False Advertising for Obamacare
- Medicaid Madness in Maine: Will the Legislature Punish a Consultant for Reporting the Truth?
- Leopoldo Lopez: Venezuela’s “Dangerous Man”
- FDA Continues to Impede Medical Device Innovation
- FDA Regulations Kill
- Health Spending on State and Local Government Workers Has Outpaced Medicaid Spending by 20 Percent
- TSA Vet Admits Scanners Are a Joke. And So Are You (to the TSA).
- What Republicans and Democrats Don’t Understand About the Insurance Company “Bailout”
- The U.S. Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
- America’s Spymasters and Cultural Propaganda
- Krugman Plays a Mulligan
- Federal Government Gives Patients a New “Right”: Access to Lab Results
- Krugman: “Why aren’t wages going up?”
- Will the Federal Government Turn a Profit on Risk Corridors? That Can Be Stopped.
- Against Libertarian Infighting
- The Police State Retaliates Against Mayor for Pension Reform
- Are Young People Better Off Being Uninsured?
- Patient CARE Act Would Impose 37 Percent Marginal Income-Tax Hike on Late Middle-Aged
- Stalin Apologia
- Believe It: NSA Collects and Stores Content, Not Just “Metadata”
- California’s Immoral Mountain of Debt
- Common Ground
- Health Reform: Senate Republicans’ Proposal Is a $47 Billion Tax Hike with Few Beneficiaries
- More Government Intrusion
- Et tu, Angry Birds?
- How the Left and the Right Talk about Inequality
- Health Reform: Senate Republicans’ Continuous Coverage Consumer Protection Needs Improvement
- Arctic Blast Heroes: Chick-fil-A to the Rescue
- Obama Insults Our Intelligence on Civil Liberties
- Coburn II
- State of the Union 2014: More Preschool Politics?
- Governor Stevens and I
- Health Benefits Cost 40 Percent More for Government Workers than for Private Workers
- Stockman: Cronyism Is Destroying American Capitalism and American Democracy
- “I Felt Like a Hostage”: Toward a Solution for Medical Price Transparency
- Venezuela: The End of Newspapers?
- Is There an Argument—Any Argument—for Community Rating?
- If Obamacare Lost Your Personal Data, Would You Even Know?
- The Failure of the “War on Poverty” in One Picture
- President Obama on Inequality: Rhetoric vs. Reality
- Will Republicans Repeal Obamacare’s Risk Corridors?
- Conscripting Four-Year Olds: California’s Latest Preschool Plan
- License to Kill
- In Defense of Inequality
- Price Transparency: What To Do and What Not To Do
- Medicare Advantage
- Why Global Poverty Has Declined 80%: Economic Liberalization Begets Prosperity and Equality
- Least Surprising Health Research Result Ever: Medicaid Increases ER Use
- Retiring Teacher Seniority in California?
- Judge the Pope’s Exhortation by Results, Not Rhetoric
- Extortion, Part II
- Contraceptives for Nuns? Government at Its Most Absurd
- Medicaid Expansion Means More ER Visits
- A Review of D. Eric Schansberg’s “The Economics of Health Care and Health Insurance”
- New Year’s Revolution
- Extortion
- Two Minimum Wage Fallacies
- Habeas corpus Still Dead, NSA Records Now Assist: Obama Signs NDAA 2014
- Private Exchanges: Getting Ready For Individual Health Insurance To Be The Standard
- Entitlements
- Hooray! The Medicare “Doc Fix” Is Fixed Until March 31
- Obamacare Health Insurance Has “Narrow Networks,” but Why Are There Any Networks at All?
- The Independent Review—Winter Issue Now Available
- Obamacare Will Not Prevent Hospitals from Overcharging
- Catching the Hint of Liberty in “Catching Fire” and “The Hunger Games”
- Immigrants and Poor Kids Aren’t to Blame for Poor PISA Performance
- Carpe Diem: Washington’s Foundations Are Showing Cracks
- Rationing Schooling Freedom in Collectivist Oakland
- Police Claim Teen Shot Himself In Head—While Handcuffed Behind Back
- FBI Successfully Foils Another FBI Plot
- Oh No! The Republicans Are Going to Tax Your Health Benefits!
- PISA Results Show We’re a World Leader . . . in Spending, Not Performance
- Eliminate Long-Term Unemployment Compensation
- Are We About to Face a Severe Doctor Shortage?
- “Job Lock” from Employer-Based Health Benefits: What Should Government Do?
- It’s Official: The Top 40% of Income Earners Pay More Than 100% of Federal Income Taxes
- What Paul Krugman Can Learn from Milton Friedman
- You Didn’t Build That Business, and You Don’t Run It, Either
- Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
- Hospitals’ Bad Debt: Part of the Problem—or Part of the Solution?
- Remembering Nelson Mandela
- Who Loses the Most Under Obamacare?
- Bootleggers and Baptists; Silversmiths and Artemis Cultists
- Sky-High Hospital Prices Are a Result of Government Interference
- Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, Part 2
- War on the Poor
- Obamacare Risk Adjustment: Moving the Goalposts
- U.S. Ranks Third Lowest of Eleven Countries on Health Care Spending
- How Small Business Is Reacting to Obamacare
- Will Obamacare Finally Cause American Seniors to Turn Against Government Health Care?
- A Chance to End the Great Recession
- Can Obama Bail Out the Health Insurers?
- Closing Gitmo Isn’t Nearly Enough
- Why Is David Cutler Shilling for the Administration?
- Pelosi Caught on Obamacare Lies
- Twelfth Grader Schools School Board over Common Core National Standards
- Tattering the Safety Net
- Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!
- More on Common Core: It’s about Snooping, Not Standards
- The Median Voter, the Marginal Consumer, and Obamacare: Why No Politician Competes for the Votes of Patients with Bladder Cancer
- Shocker: Common Core Is about Politics, Not Academic Standards
- None Dare Call It . . .
- The Fictionalized Surveillance State
- Can You Hear Me Now? We Have Too Much Health Insurance
- Venezuela’s Price Police
- Just Say No to Jobs for the Young and Unskilled
- New Videos Slam Obamacare’s Lies
- California Energy Officials Repeat Lies to Expand Their Power
- A Woman May Die Because of Obamacare
- The “Rs”: Understanding the Death Spiral in the Obamacare Exchanges
- David Eckert and the Reality of the American Police State
- Markets versus Government: Real Alternatives versus Possibilities
- Stephen Halbrook’s Gun Control in the Third Reich
- The Selling of Obamacare
- The “Deep State” in American Health Care
- President Obama: “I’m really good at killing people.”
- Questions—and Answers—for Janet Yellen
- On My Libertarian Catholicity
- Schooling for Profit: Doing Good for Students while Creating Wealth for Staff
- San Francisco Professor Compares BART Transit Workers to Slaves
- Scary Movie Medicare Edition: We Pay Dead People
- T-shirts and Free Speech: The Newest NSA Threats
- What Krugman Doesn’t Understand about Medicare for All
- The Whole Surveillance State Must Go
- “Creepy Uncle Sam” Is Back Just in Time for Halloween!
- Why the Exchanges Are a Mess and a Very Simple Alternative
- More on How Obamacare Is Affecting Jobs
- Is the Drug War Toast?
- Donald S. Barnhart (July 18, 1925 – September 8, 2009)
- More Money, Less Liberty, Impoverished Education
- My Limited Experience with Obamacare
- Death Spirals
- The Myth of the Civil Libertarian Democrat
- Generous Contract Offer Still Not Enough for BART Hostage Takers
- Government Spending and Regime Uncertainty—a Clarification
- When Extremism Is Seen as Moderate…
- Victory! The Independent Institute’s Longtime Opposition to Inclusionary Housing Policies Lays Groundwork for Governor’s Veto
- Crisis Averted
- Why Do We Need a Health Insurance Mandate?
- The Ugly Beginning of Dodger Stadium Provides Important Property Rights Lesson
- Happy Birthday, Walter Grinder!
- Nobel Peace Prize: FAIL
- The Defaults of 1933, 1862, … and 2013?
- Are Patients Too Dumb to Make Good Choices?
- New York Times Wrong about Government Childcare Delivery
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Reading Higgs
- Thinking Is Research, Too!
- Community Rating and the Pathology of Price Controls
- America’s Prisons: The Worst National Disgrace
- They Should Change Their Motto From “To Serve and Protect” to “If You Misbehave, We’ll Beat You Up, and Maybe Kill You”
- Retroactive Pay for Furloughed Government Workers?
- Call Me Uncharitable, But…
- Which Is Better: Mini-Med Plans or Obamacare?
- ObamaCare Ruling Just Killed Portable Health Insurance
- New Book Exposes the ‘Terrible 10’ Worst U.S. Economic Policy Mistakes
- The Shutdown Is Upon Us
- The Standing Army Marches On
- Young Adults and ObamaCare
- Good News! SB 1 Dies (For Now)
- The Emperor in Denial
- GOP Health Plan: Good, Bad and Ugly
- Shutdown Theater
- New California Regulation on Political Bloggers Will Chill Free Speech
- New Videos Attacking Obamacare Go Viral
- What Large Employers Are Doing
- Government-Run Preschool Is a Dead End, Not a Lifeline
- Taxing Internet Sales
- The Panthers Were Right and Reagan Was Wrong on Gun Control
- It’s Third-Party Payers, Stupid
- Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Feddie Sue: What Should We Do with Them?
- Nancy Pelosi Flunks the Preschool Test: More Government Is Not the Answer
- Latin America and the Fed Factor
- All Government Policies Succeed in the Long Run
- California Parents Need Education Options, Not Government “Accountability”
- Police Brutality, Close to Home
- Are We Being Unfair to Paul Krugman?
- Did Workers Get Trapped in the Federal ‘Safety Net’?
- Obama Administration Says ‘Nein’ to German Homeschooling Family Seeking Asylum
- Liberalism’s Legacy, Part II
- The Isolated War Party
- California’s Pension Tsunami Swells as Pension Benefits Surge
- The Difference between God and Congress
- Medisave Accounts in Singapore
- Reinhardt on Why the Government Will Need More of Your Money
- Ronald Coase, Professional Odd Man Out
- The Twisted Premises Implicit in the Drive for War
- Will Obamacare Help or Hurt the Economy?
- Creative Destruction—The Best Game in Town
- Infringed: Second Amendment in the Crosshairs
- The Republic of Georgia’s Uncertain Economic Future
- Health and Higher Education
- Balanced Budget Amendments, Good and Bad
- Aircraft Targeted for Unconstitutional Searches
- Coming Soon: The Strange Case of the Chong Chon Gang
- The Inescapable Reality of Blowback
- Is Equality the Right Public Policy Goal?
- How Much Do You Want to Pay for Medical Care?
- Life, Liberty, and the Threat of Abortion Ambivalence
- The End of Cristina’s Reign
- Medical Economics and Medical Ethics
- Is Macroeconomics Really Economics?
- Our System’s Complexity Is Both Its Weakness and Its Strength
- Bono: “Capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid”
- Bismarck and Healthcare Insurance: DeLong and DeShort of It
- NSA Spying Threatens Law-Abiding Americans
- Not Even Achieving an Impossible Libertarian Dream Will Suffice
- Farm Pork Even After Death
- Stunning Results from California
- “Parallel Construction”: Government Term for Lying About Its Investigations
- Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution? Which is the Better Way to Structure Government Pensions?
- NSA Collects ‘Word for Word’ Every Domestic Communication
- U.S. Healthcare Spending: Out of Control
- Explaining College Cost Inflation
- Star Trek Films Fail Because Freedom Has Progressed
- Political Hustle by Fast Food Workers
- The Economic Sector the President’s Policies Have Helped Most? Firearms
- Time for Taxpayer Protections on California Transportation Projects
- What a Program for Bureaucrats Tells Us about Obamacare
- A New Case for Freedom of Immigration: Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s Global Crossings
- Who Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Target?
- Press Coverage of Florida’s Fiscally Conservative Governor Rick Scott
- Fiscal Responsibility, According to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew
- The Wolverine and the Implicit Libertarianism of the Wayward Samurai
- “Evidence-Based Care”: Hazardous to Your Health?
- Does Your Doctor Answer to You — or to Third-Party Payers?
- Obamacare: All Your Intimate Information Available to (Almost) Anyone
- Orson Welles on Contracts and the Rule of Law
- Doctors Should Help Patients Weigh Tradeoffs
- Government Claims It Can Legally Prevent People from Telling Others What It Is Doing to Them
- Where’s the Outrage?
- Romanticizing Healthcare Reform
- The U.S. Empire’s Shameful Multiplier Effect
- Time To Unload the BART Gravy Train
- Prison Eugenics in the Golden State
- Healthcare Is Not Exempt from the Law of Diminishing Returns
- How John Locke Should Have Saved The Lone Ranger
- Neither Snow nor Rain nor Dark of Night Will Prevent the Post Office from Spying on You
- Jim Crow and the Progressives
- Small Business Owners and Obamacare
- Questions About Obama’s Delay of Healthcare Mandate
- The Making of the Sausage with the Senate Immigration Bill
- The Flat Earth Society, Climate Change, and Total Dictatorship
- Why We Are on an Unsustainable Path
- Why Fight for King and Country?
- How Much Do We Spend on Healthcare?
- How Many Warnings Do We Need?
- Problem Solved, No Government Program Needed
- Hospital Pricing Strategies
- Crony Capitalism Is Alive and Well
- The Pro-Liberty Message in Man of Steel
- SCOTUS Decision Offers Hope to Farmers Wanting Economic Freedom
- The Stalinization of Amerika
- Hospital Care That Is Priceless
- Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013)
- Note to Gov. Brown on Medical Liability Law: If It Ain’t Broken, Don’t Operate
- Doctors Should Rethink “Costless” Medical Ethics
- President Obama’s Database: Information on Everyone
- Modern Communications Technology—Savior or Soma?
- What the State Fears Most—Revelations of the Truth about the State
- How Policymakers Can Act Smarter: Simple Lessons about Complex Systems
- What Would Obama Have Done with the Leaks in the Pentagon Papers?
- Did Capitalism Put the “Great” in The Great Gatsby?
- Verizon Surveillance: Do We Feel Safer?
- A Long Hot Summer
- Same-Sex Marriage and Individual Rights
- Goodbye to the War On Drugs?
- The Hubris of Policymakers Often Harms the Poor
- SCOTUS Upholds Taking of DNA from Arrestee
- Replacing Medicare’s Ridiculous Fee Schedule
- Death and Taxes Now Under One Roof
- Why the Precautionary Principle Counsels Us to Renounce Statism
- State Power and How It Might Be Undermined
- Classical Liberalism’s Impossible Dream
- Congressional Criticism of Apple’s Taxes
- Grocery Stores, Healthcare, and the Case for Real Markets
- Bush Wasn’t a Conservative and Obama Isn’t a Liberal
- Crony Capitalism?
- The Folly of Medicare’s One-Ailment-per-Visit Rule
- Recommended Reading: Challenge of Liberty Student Seminar
- Power Corrupts
- Six Billion Physician Fees
- Healthcare and the Cost of Non-Price Rationing
- Stupid Regulations
- Healthcare and the Poor: Why Money Works Better than Waiting
- Why Government Shouldn’t Build Things (Part 3)
- No Longer Fruitcakes. . .
- Both the Right and Left Go Wrong on Healthcare Prices
- What Medical Tourism Tells Us about Our Healthcare System
- When Government Gets “Arty,” Hang Onto Your Wallet (and Children)
- Guantanamo: America’s Great Shame
- Why Your Dog’s Knee Surgery Is So Much Cheaper than Yours
- Obamacare Exemptions: “The Rules Don’t Apply to Us”
- The $800 per Person Uncertainty Tax
- Healthcare as a Complex System
- Happy May Day
- Guardian Against Tyranny: The Writ of Habeas Corpus
- What Emerging Markets Tell Us about Healthcare Reform
- Nationalism—the Bane of the Modern Age
- The President’s Policies: Economic Stimulus for One Industry
- TSA, the $1,022.95 Pocketknife, and Why Your Flight is Delayed
- How Our Healthcare System Has Us Trapped
- Taxing Internet Purchases
- Goodbye, “America’s Most Challenging High School.” Hello, Ebonics?
- Discrimination Against Consumer-Directed Healthcare
- What Is the Threshold for Martial Law?
- The Rodney Dangerfields of the Ideological Universe
- Deficit Reduction and the Coming Inflation?
- Why Has Congress Militarized the Bureaucrats?
- The Power of the State versus the Power of Love
- Five Perverse Incentives of the New Health Insurance Regulations
- Students: Break Free This Summer!
- Obamacare Lawsuits: Open the Floodgates…
- The Coming Clash over Insurers’ Compliance with Obamacare
- “There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days.”—Genesis 6:4
- ABCs for Today’s Public School Students
- Toward a Better Balanced Budget Amendment
- Legalize Recreational Drugs
- Healthcare for the Poor: An Alternative to Obamacare
- Libertarian Wishful Thinking
- Goodbye, Maggie
- The Coming Healthcare Cuts for Seniors and the Disabled
- The Totalitarianism of Universal Background Checks
- Texas Tech Free Market Institute
- Emergency Rooms and the Healthcare Crisis
- What Gives Rise to “Crony Capitalism”?
- The State—Crown Jewel of Human Social Organization
- To Improve Healthcare, Liberate Nurses
- Why Are Cops Acting Like Soldiers?
- Not All Countries Are Analytically Equal
- Gaming the Healthcare System
- 1913: The Final Days of the Old Regime in the United States
- Fascinating Questions from The Independent Review
- Healthcare Insurers’ Incentives to Get Worse and Worse
- Prince of Peace
- The Sluggish Recovery of Real Net Domestic Private Business Investment
- Are You a Victim of Environmental Cancer Hype?
- A Better Way to Encourage Private Health Insurance
- Sean Penn’s Hero, Killer of Free Speech
- Fire Safety Lessons from Nigeria
- Obamacare’s Regressive and Unfair Subsidies
- Obamacare Subsidies Create Perverse Incentives
- The Sequester: Crisis Bungled
- Governor Christie’s Favorite Charity
- Dangerous Medicine: When Preventive Care Meets Politics
- Labor Markets Are Still in Bad Shape
- Rand Paul’s Filibuster Divides the Left and Right
- The Seamy Side of the Military
- Will More Preventive Care Help Reduce Healthcare Costs?
- Italy’s Populists
- Don’t Rely on a Quack Doctor
- How Obamacare Will Affect Immigrants
- The Federal Fiscal Horse Runs Uphill, but Not Downhill
- Sequestration Math
- 20 Years Ago Today: Operation Showtime
- Opinion, Meet Fact: “Gun Control” Doesn’t
- SCOTUS Hears Arguments on the Voting Rights Act
- Obamacare and the Early Retiree
- What Does DOJ Really Think About Gun Control?
- Gun Companies Cease Sales to Government in States Where Second Amendment Is Not Respected
- Hurray for Washington!
- The Next Fiscal Cliff: More Political Theatre
- Obamacare and the Small-Business Owner
- What’s Immoral for the Private Goose Is Moral for the Government Gander?
- Obamacare’s Marriage Penalty
- The Federal Reserve’s First Century
- Armen Alchian (April 12, 1914 – February 19, 2013)
- Political Problems Have Only One Real Solution
- Presidents’ Day
- Young Adults and the Affordable Care Act
- Regime Uncertainty and Firearm Purchases
- Can the Internet Save Us?
- How Will Obamacare Affect Health Savings Accounts?
- The 16th Amendment: A Transfer of Power from the States to the Federal Government
- Obama to Restore Afghanistan Status Quo Ante
- Obamacare and the Medicare Trust Fund
- The FISA Model for Summary Execution?
- Now We Know: War Is Murder
- The Delusion of Money
- Gigantic Run-up of Federal Debt for What?
- How Will Obamacare Affect Medicare Patients?
- Repeal the 17th Amendment
- Drone Strikes on Americans
- Should Insurance Regulation Be Used as a Political Pawn?
- The Relentless March of the U.S. Police State
- How Much Will Your Health Insurance Cost?
- Philosopher Alvin Plantinga Receives Prestigious Rescher Prize
- Will You Be Able to Keep Your Current Health Insurance?
- NLRB: A Rogue Agency?
- Can a Christian School Terminate a Teacher Who Refuses to Provide a Pastoral Reference?
- Where Private Health Insurance Is Headed
- Court of Appeals Holds Obama Exceeded Authority on Recess Appointments
- Gun Control? Someone Picked the Wrong . . .
- Troubling Public Opinion Trends for Gun Rights and Civil Liberties
- Supreme Court Rules: Social Security is NOT a Binding Contract
- The Names Behind the Collateral Damage
- Did Lefty Need to Apologize for Tax Comments?
- Federal Government Debt Undermines the Programs It Finances
- The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World
- ACOs and the Nationalization of Healthcare
- The Best Tax Code Money Can Buy
- Monetary Policy and Heightened Price Volatility in Raw Materials Markets
- An Open Letter to Washington on the Debt Ceiling
- Don’t Know Much About History: Colleges Teach U.S. History with Politics Left Out (Is that Good or Bad?)
- Legitimacy
- Obama’s Resounding “No” to Raising Debt Ceiling
- Disincentives to Work Have Slowed U.S. Economic Growth
- How Will Obamacare Affect Your Tax Bill?
- World War II Didn’t End the Great Depression
- A Vulgar Keynesian Visits My Chamber
- Reforming Medicaid with Health Stamps
- Lower the Debt Ceiling
- Stream of Conciousness Ramblings, Somewhat Related to James M. Buchanan
- Newtown and the Bipartisan Police State
- What If She Had Been Unarmed?
- Nixon and Buchanan: Power versus Principle
- No Surprise: U.S. Urges Britain to Warm to Brussels’ Centralization
- The 23rd Tax Advisory
- Turning Medicaid into a Competing Health Plan
- Tax Code Is Longer than the Bible
- Remembering James Buchanan
- Krugman’s Coin
- James M. Buchanan: 1919-2013
- James M. Buchanan (October 3, 1919 – January 9, 2013)
- Can the State Take Your Blood Without a Warrant?
- Those Versatile Government-Issued EBT Cards
- The Case for Abolishing Medicaid
- ObamaCare Litigation and the Christian’s Conscience
- Hammers, Clubs, and Fists: Making Our Streets and Schools Safe
- The Salmon Trap: An Analogy for People’s Entrapment by the State
- Greatest Hits of 2012
- Escape to … Russia??
- Austrian Economics—the Queen of the Experimental Sciences
- Should We Replace Medicaid with Block Grants to States?
- A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls
- Not Every Intellectual Gunman Is a Hired Gun
- An Overview of Recent Changes in Federal Finances
- Freedom: Because It Works or Because It’s Right?
- How Unfair Is Medicaid Funding?
- The Amazingly Popular Bush Tax Cuts
- How Wasteful Is Medicaid?
- A December 1941 Speech that FDR Never Delivered
- Who Goes to Prison Due to Gun Control?
- Krugman on Regime Uncertainty
- James Madison Analyzed Regime Uncertainty in 1788
- Unprecedented Household Deleveraging since 2007
- Bork on Antitrust
- Robert Bork (1927-2012)
- How Bad Is Care under Medicaid?
- How Will Medicaid Enrollees Fare under Obamacare?
- More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years
- Obama to Charities: Bite the Hand that Feeds You, or Else!
- Liability-by-Contract: A Reform That Would Help Patients
- The Fiscal Cliff: Worst-Case Scenarios
- Krugman Attacks Us
- Three Advantages of Malpractice Reform
- The Fiscal Cliff and Policy Uncertainty
- Reforming the Tort System, Part 3: Freeing the Experts and the Courts
- Hotel California: Paychecks and Pensions, but No Pink Champagne or Full Parental Choice
- Obama’s Mandate; Republican Disarray; The Fiscal Cliff
- Assad Is a Monster, But. . .
- The National Security Agency Collects and Stores Everyone’s Email, Indefinitely
- Union Backs Teacher Bar Exam
- Marxist Ties of the Chicago Teachers Union Exposed
- Reforming the Tort System, Part 2: Freeing the Doctor
- Morsi’s Power Grab
- The Fiscal Cliff
- I, Pencil: The Movie
- The Proper Focus of Immigration Reform
- Robert Reich to Dems: Hold the Middle Class Hostage
- Setback for the Surveillance State in San Antonio Schools
- Reforming the Tort System, Part 1: Freeing the Patient
- Carbon Taxes
- Crisis and Leviathan, 25th Anniversary Edition
- Medical Malpractice Reform: Ten Principles of a Rational Tort System
- Help Wanted: Economists Who Understand the Economy
- Legal Challenge to Federal Agriculture Policy
- Jurg Niehans (November 8, 1919 – April 23, 2007)
- Gaza and America
- A Tale of Two Abolitionists
- Curing the Medical Malpractice Malady
- Big Brother in Government Schools: Trading in Civil Liberties for Cold, Hard Cash
- Dumbing Down for Dollars: A Tale of Two Floridas
- Love, Liberty, and the State
- Hospitals and Doctors’ Offices Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
- The Public-Private Double Standard
- The Ethics of Democracy
- Mayor Bloomberg: “Let Them Eat Cake”
- States’ Education Ballot Results Roundup: The Good, the Bad, and the Really Expensive
- Why Don’t More Hospitals Compete on Quality?
- Don’t Despair
- Defense Cuts Would Encourage Needed Improvements
- Who Should Determine Education Policy? Parents, Not Presidents
- The Next U.S. President and Latin America
- Obama Beneficiaries Are Top Obama Campaign Donors
- Is Government Provision the Answer? (Part II)
- Are Welfare Programs Worth What They Cost?
- Is Government Provision the Answer? (Part I)
- The “Green” Election Market Proxy
- Anti-Gouging Laws Prevent Prices from Sending the Right Signals
- Obama and Civil Liberties: The Prospect of Four More Years
- Once More, with Feeling: Our System Is Not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism
- How Much Do You Trust Your Insurer?
- It’s Official: No Global Warming Since 1997
- Obama’s Trifecta: The 3 Biggest Lies
- Modeling Disasters
- Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash—The Mystery Persists
- How Much Should Individual Preferences Matter?
- Obama and Romney: War Is Peace
- How Much Does Healthcare Spending Matter?
- On Acting Rationally in More Ways than One
- Claim that Unemployment Figures Were Cooked Not so “Ludicrous” After All?
- Competence
- Can a Free Market in Healthcare Work?
- The Buck Stops Here
- Two Flawed Models of Health Insurance
- Race-Based Admissions: Critical Mass Standard Is a Massive Mess in Texas
- The Facts Behind the New Fiction about Won’t Back Down
- Lawsuits over “Fee” Public Schools
- The “Great for Students” Chicago Teachers Strike
- Obamacare’s Impossible Expectations
- Privatize Sesame Street!
- Wishful Thinking…
- The Racist Brutality of Stop-and-Frisk
- ACA: An Impossible Mandate
- The Regulatory State’s Collateral Damage
- HSAs Force Health Providers to Compete
- Regime Change Coming in the Republic of Georgia
- Markets Promote Peace and Harmony
- The Engine of Economic Growth Is Running, but Hardly at High Speed
- The Wretched Nationalization of School Lunch
- Waste, Waste Everywhere and Not a Dime to Spare
- Obama’s 44th California Fundraiser
- Obama Should Play Golf All Day, Every Day
- Beyond Regime Uncertainty: Corporate CFOs Predict Worsening Future
- The Benefits of Ideal Health Insurance
- Thanks, Uncle Sam, for GPS!
- The Bazooka That Doesn’t Kill
- Shortchanging Special Needs Students—Another Poor Mark for Government Schooling
- Obama Touts D.C. Public Schools as Offering the Kind of Education that Will Grow the Economy
- Is Christine Lagarde a Higgsean?
- Obama is Stuck on the First Envelope
- Promote Liberty by Reforming Higher Education?
- Designing Ideal Health Insurance
- Who Are the Top 1% in Healthcare Spending?
- Think You’re Smart? Try This Quiz from The Independent Review!
- Thoughts for Constitution Day
- Better Solutions for Pre-Existing Conditions
- QE3: An Example of Regulatory Capture
- GM, QE3, and Crony Capitalism
- The Fed’s New Foray Into Crony Capitalism
- Don’t Blame the Libyan People
- Freeing the Retirees: How to Make Health Insurance Easier to Purchase
- Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012)
- Abandoning My Pre-9/11 Mentality
- 11 Years Later, We May Have Lost Our Freedoms, But At Least TSA is Keeping Us Safe…Oops—FAIL!
- Freeing the Employee
- Equality Requires Men and Non-Mom Working Women to Work Less
- Freeing the Doctor
- New Online Courses on Liberty
- Social Liberalism and the Drug War
- Boom and Bust Banking—Causes and Cures
- Queen for a Day-Based Voting
- A Simple Way to Control Healthcare Spending
- What’s Work Got to Do with It? Labor Day the Chicago Teachers Union Way
- TSA: Keeping America Safe…from Ron Paul?
- The Pathology of U.S. Democracy
- How Perverse Incentives Affect Healthcare Behavior
- Country’s Largest Roman Catholic Education System Embraces “Entrepreneurial Partnerships” and Outsources School Management
- If Economics Were Like Fashion
- EPA Fuel Efficiency Standards: Goals Are Not Policies
- Stimulating—Enough Already!
- Returns to For-Profit Higher Education
- Quality Competition Without Third-Party Payers
- The Fading Promise of the Euro
- Competition Based on Quality of Healthcare: Why Does Quality Rise in Free Markets and Decline with Government?
- Lessons from Ruby Ridge
- Goldwater Was Right about the Dangers of “Big, Inflationary Government”
- I Don’t Care What Rep. Akin Thinks about Rape
- What’s a Geezer to Do?
- Can Entrepreneurship Be Copied? Some Behaviors Can Be Replicated, but Results Are Unique.
- College Officials’ Excuses Costing Students and Taxpayers
- Absentee Ballots Create a Market for Votes
- Healthcare Entrepreneurs: Unleash the Innovative Caregivers
- Mrs. Obama Guilt-Trips Olympic Wunderkind—Over 300-Calorie “Sin”?
- Hapless Jetskier Criminally Charged for $100 mm Airport Security System’s Total Failure
- Homo Homini Lupus Est
- How Third-Party Payers Crush Entrepreneurs
- Washington Post on Fed Ed Failure: Right Headline, Wrong Reasoning
- White House Yanks Anti-TSA Petition from Website
- Andy Garcia in New Documentary on Cuban Political Prisoners
- Outsourcing Public Schooling
- Singapore Changes Its Tune: “Stop at Two” Now Raps “Make a Baby Tonight”
- Private-Sector Socialism: What the Right and Left Don’t Understand about Healthcare in Other Countries
- TSA and Barn Doors
- ConGameCare
- Terrorism by Any Reasonable Definition
- The Market for Healthcare Risk: How the Current System Biases Against Patients with Pre-existing Conditions
- Georgia On My Mind
- Remembering Gore Vidal
- Health Insurance vs. Healthcare: When Socializing Risk Pays Off
- Counsel of Despair?
- How Much Does Health Insurance Affect Health? Some Surprising Answers
- Private Association Fines Government, and Government Will Pay!
- Progressive Betrayals of Civil Liberties
- The Drowning Lifeguard?
- Cowboy Revisionist History
- The Problem of Unintended Consequences: How Good Intentions Often Lead to Perverse Effects
- Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology’s Political Economy
- Student Loan Forgiveness: Bread and Circuses for the 21st Century
- President Obama’s STEM Master Teacher Corps: Another Unconstitutional, Expensive Federal Foray into Education
- How Much Do You Trust the Government? Politics, Patients, and Perverse Incentives
- Two Approaches to Regulation
- The Aurora Shootings
- Alexander Cockburn, RIP
- What’s Really Behind Student Fade-Out: Summer or Schools?
- Obama’s Business Comment . . .
- Adults Who Say the Kids Are Alright Get It Wrong
- Obama Harkens Back to Clintonism
- Obama’s “Emergency” Control Over Private Telcommunications: The Terrorists Win
- The Obamacare Ruling’s Threat to Charity
- Dodd-Frank and Regime Uncertainty
- A Desperate Argument for the Draft
- What Crusaders for Liberty Are Up Against: Part II
- Chinese Scholars Discover Human Capital, Disavow One-Child Policy
- Andy Griffith and the Fourth Amendment, RIP
- What Crusaders for Liberty Are Up Against
- Adios, Amigos
- Roberts Was Influenced by the “Greenhouse Effect”
- Form Trumps Function on Taxpayers’ Blank Check
- John Goodman, Anthony Gregory and Robert Murphy to Speak at 2012 Freedom Fest!
- Fed Med to Fed Ed: Beware of the “Unconstitutionally Coercive” Standard
- Limits on the taxing power?
- Chief Justice John Roberts Channels Oliver Wendell Holmes, Not Owen Roberts
- Federal Student Loan Interest Rate Update
- ObamaCare Mandate Upheld: Those dirty, rotten taxes!
- College Loan Interest Rates: Real Change or Spare Change?
- A Brief History of the Case Against Obamacare
- What Does It Say That I Could Post a TSA Outrage Every Day?
- Individual Career Choices, Not Government Quotas, Should Define the Next 40 Years of Title IX
- How Many TSA Agents Does It Take…
- How States Can Control Their Spending
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz (November 11, 1915–June 21, 2012)
- Nothing Outside the State: Non-Profit Edition
- My Money’s on Obama Because…
- Obamacare Cronyism Makes Bad Medicine
- Groundbreaking New Book: Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, by John C. Goodman
- Segway Police: Unsafe at Any Speed?
- Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People
- Is There a Trade-Off Between Economic Growth and Equality?
- Hypocrisy from the Ivory Tower: UK Edition
- Push Has Come to Shove in Some California Cities
- The WSJ Mis-Characterizes Ray Bradbury’s Oeuvre
- Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy
- Why Has the Public Choice Revolution Been Stopped Short of Victory?
- The Power and Vitality of Living Economics
- See For Greater Glory
- Axioms of Political Geometry
- Peaceful Scottish Secession in the Works
- The Right to Drink a Supersized Coke
- TSA the Employer of Last Resort for Sex Offenders?
- The Brazilian Traitor
- Keeping the Climate Safe from Too Many Brown Babies
- The Universal Soldier
- California Sales Tax Rebates: Who Is the Taxpayer?
- 9/11 as a Threat to Non-Profits?
- President Obama’s Energy Policy: Green Energy, Or Crony Capitalism?
- State Interposition and Death Penalty Issue Brewing at SCOTUS
- With No Hope for Change, Obfuscate!
- Bishops Sue Over Religious Liberty
- Hate Crimes and Rutgers Webcam Case
- JPMorgan’s $2 Billion Loss: A Case for Regulation?
- Even Worse Than Democracy
- Krugman’s Mythology of U.S. Banking History
- The Property Tax Panacea
- California’s Budget Woes
- Economists Testify on Federal Reserve Before House Committee Chaired by Ron Paul
- Water and Markets Flow Together in Aquanomics
- Surprise, Surprise
- TSA’s Total Stupidity Agency Enters the Life-threatening Realm
- Happy Birthday, F. A. Hayek
- 30 Years Later: The Academe as Refuge for Anti-Abortion Protest?
- Have We Become Accustomed to Police Brutality?
- France and Greece Move Left
- “Gaia” Guru Admits Global Warming Alarmism Is Wrong
- Want to Rip Off Your Neighbor? Form a Government
- The Systematic Organization of Hatreds
- I Pocket Knife: A Tale of Petty Tyranny and the TSA
- A Comparison of Three Government Budgets
- There’s Fraud and Then There’s Government
- Illegal Immigration and Unintended Consequences
- Global Financial Information Regime Looms
- Bullying, Self Defense, and the Libertarian Imperative
- The Bizarro World of Professor Sen
- Michelle Obama: “We Made History!” Women Are No Longer Responsible for Our Sexuality!!
- The Corruptible TSA: Part II
- Lessons from the Expropriation of YPF-Repsol
- The Naked Truth about Your Government
- Diminishing His Position
- TSA in the Land of Oz
- Government Gives Itself a 99.9% Score
- How the Tax System Fosters Big Government
- Free John Edwards?
- Ann Coulter Is Essentially Right
- The U.S. Welfare State Is Bigger than You Think
- To Protect and to Serve
- Why Do Politicians Pander? Because It Works.
- Inflation Update
- Yet Another Case of Overzealous Prosecution
- Heroes and Libertarian Ethics in Literature, Part 2
- American Pie 2.2, or, The Lament of a Self-Made Misesian
- If Politicians’ Honesty Set the Standard for Others
- In the Name of Stopping Terror
- Will Justice Be Served in Zimmerman’s Trial?
- The Failure of Industrial Policy
- Sheriff Explains the Dangers of Marijuana
- Libertarian Heroes in Fiction, Part 1
- Constitutional Procedures: Obamacare and More
- Eric Holder Responds to Judge Jerry Smith
- Meddling in Sports—A Proper Presidential Role?
- Does (or Should) SCOTUS Have the Final Word on the ObamaCare Statute?
- Is the Court Engaging in Activism if It Strikes Down ObamaCare?
- Modern Conservatism = Rightwing Progressivism?
- “Progressive” Righteous Zealotry Bodes Ill for Individual Life and Liberty
- What Happened to Liberty in the The Hunger Games Movie?
- Who Is Most Likely to Oppose Totalitarianism?
- Another Sad Watershed in Fast Food Pricing
- Reproduce or Pay a Tax: The Next ObamaCare
- ObamaCare on the Ropes?
- Real Airline Security
- Setback for The New Brown Scare
- The World’s First Paleo-Libertarians
- Make the Falklands/Malvinas a Free Zone
- Liberating The Hunger Games
- From Sputnik to the War on Terror, U.S. Education as a “National Security Crisis”
- ObamaCare at Two
- There Is No Iranian Nuclear Threat
- Film for Compulsory Sterilization from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s Reference)
- Some Thoughts on Trayvon Martin’s Death
- “The Current Models Have Nothing to Say”
- The Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly in Trayvon Martin Case
- Why Did People Wait More than Sixty Years to Get Upset?
- You Call This a War? I’ll Show You a War
- Violence Against Women Act Sanctions Rights Violations
- Capitalism Without Bankruptcy Is Like Religion Without Hell
- Biden Boasts: We Support Crony Capitalism
- The Specter of Centrally Planned Economic Fascism Continues to Hover over the United States
- Crony Capitalism Comes With Big Government
- Trampling & Soaking Americans
- The Independent Review—Spring Issue Now Available
- Teach the “Unteachable”
- ObamaCare and God’s Will
- Likely Fiscal and Monetary Legacies of the Current Crisis
- Panetta Disregards Congress’ Enumerated Power to Declare War
- Colorado Supreme Court Strikes Down Campus Gun Ban
- Cessation of Labor Force Growth since 2008
- Warren Buffett: “Lower My Taxes!”
- Class Action Abuse and the Movies
- Drone Follies
- Federal District Court Strikes Down Maryland’s Restrictive Concealed-Carry Law
- Reasons to Rethink Electric Cars
- Fannie and Freddie Limbo
- Virginia Interposes to Protect Citizens from NDAA
- Tobacco Warning Labels Are the Least of FDA’s Sins
- New Rasmussen Poll on Presidential Race
- The State of African American History Month
- Short-term Employment Changes in Longer-term Perspective
- Willingness to Soak the Rich Depends Upon the Question
- Two Wolves and a Sheep
- Pennsylvania Magistrate Dismisses Harassment Charges Against Muslim Defendant
- State Attorneys General File Suit Challenging Contraception Subsidy
- SCOTUS Stretches Probable Cause Standard to Find Qualified Immunity
- Insinuation as War Propaganda
- This Man Was Almost Elected President of the United States!
- Climate Science Is Not “Settled” Despite Arrogance, Intolerance and Smears by Alarmists
- Solutions for Europe
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The High Cost of Solar
- Romney Unfairly Criticized for Saying Auto Companies Should Have Gone Bankrupt
- Private Employment Has Recouped Only Three-Eighths of Its Recent Loss
- Gentle Ben
- Flying the Fascist Skies
- God and Woman in the Nanny State
- Religious Objection Not the Only Problem With Obamacare Contraception Mandate
- The Fed Hates Renters Too
- Members of Congress Benefit at Taxpayer Expense
- The Fed’s Immiseration of People Who Live on Interest Earnings
- “Repulsive Progressive Hypocrisy” and Why Peaceniks Should Oppose Democrats
- Ninth Circuit, Gay Marriage, and the Rule of Judges
- Solving the Federal Land Problem
- Taxes for Alms? Or for Crosses?
- No-Fly List Doubles In One Year
- France Fines Google: Is Atlas Shrugging?
- XX-: Safe-Porn Dreaming USA
- Social Engineering and the Roots of the Financial Crisis
- How Much Does the Safety Net Help the “Very Poor”?
- “Single-payer” Health Care Requires Evermore Patient Patients
- Leading Scientists Debunk Climate Alarmism
- The Statist of the Union
- The Fed’s Inflation Target
- Obama’s Prosperity-Killing Protectionism
- The Lawless Executive Branch and the Irrelevance of Congress
- Mitt Romney’s Taxes
- U.S. Senator Detained by Transportation Security Administration
- Charles Dickens, Capitalist
- True Religious Freedom Means Freedom for All
- U.S. Employment Woes Continue Despite Small Recent Improvements
- We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Evidence
- SOPA and Questioning Intellectual Property
- The War on Drugs Is “The New Jim Crow”
- Where Should the Burden of Proof Rest?
- Take or Pay at the EPA
- The Temptation of Bernanke: How Historical Memory Feeds Fed Power
- Secular Theocracy: The Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny, Part 2
- Don’t Fear Iranian Nukes
- Every Single Day, Every Word You Say, I’ll Be Watching You
- New Book Examines the History and Folly of Bank Bailouts
- Ban State College and University Employees From the State Legislature?
- Hating Bankers or Hating Washington?
- Why Your Dog Doesn’t Own Your Entire House, and the Government Doesn’t, Either
- The Dystopian Bungling and Brutality of Immigration Enforcement
- What’s Wrong with This Picture: MSM Coverage of Obama’s Signing Homeland Battlefield Bill
- Nobel Laureate Economist Ronald Coase Turns 101
- Good News for Californians: Redevelopment Agencies Shut Down
- Obliterating What’s Left of Childhood Privacy
- Government Officials Want You to Know that Your Earnings Belong to Them
- Public School Clamps Down on Ten-Year Old for Pizza “Gun”
- Siobhan Reynolds (1961-2011), a True American Heroine
- Extending the Payroll Tax Cut: A Vote to Eliminate Social Security As We Know It
- Secular Theocracy: The Foundations and Folly of Modern Tyranny, Part 1
- A Dictator Dies, Will The Regime Live On?
- Robert Higgs Is Interviewed on The Peter Schiff Show on the Folly of Government Interventionism
- Obama Caves, Agrees He Is All-Powerful
- BBC Faked Polar Bear Footage re Climate Alarmism
- Alex Tabarrok Interviewed on Restoring Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Why Do So Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?
- President Obama and “Occupy Wall Street”
- Build It and They Might Not Come
- Krugman Disses Hayek
- Uncertainty and Unemployment
- Civil Society or Dictatorship?
- Ode to the Welfare State
- How to Spur Innovation, Advance Human Progress, and Make Yourself Smarter
- Enron, Ten Years Later
- Do You Believe in Magic?
- Richard T. Ely’s Social Gospel of “Progressivism”: Socialism, Fascism, Racism, Eugenics and Militarism
- The Government Is Expropriating Private Wealth at a Rapid Rate
- Job Creation
- No War for Oil Confronts a Key Premise of U.S. Foreign Policy
- The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making Them Dependent on Government Benefits
- Another Agency in Search of a Mission: Department of Homeland Security Issues Warning on Turkey Fryers
- Climategate 2.0
- Invocation: A Gala for Liberty
- Anti-Chinese Bipartisanship
- “Pull Over Sir, I Must Fine You for Smoking in Your Car”
- Robert Higgs’s Tocqueville Award Acceptance Speech (November 15, 2011)
- Insider Trading by Representative Spencer Bachus
- The Government Is the Problem
- Mario Vargas Llosa and the Search for Liberty
- Why I Voted “No” to a Strike
- More “Green” Energy Cronyism and Corporate Welfare
- Biodefense Cronyism and Corporate Welfare
- Armistice Day
- One of Reagan’s Greatest Acts on Behalf of American Freedom
- U.S. Economic Recovery Remains Anemic, at Best
- Greek Referendum on the Bailout: Good Idea!
- PBS UK
- Stephen Colbert ‘Takes On’ Occupy Wall Street
- The State of the U.S. Economy
- If You Don’t First Succeed: Yet More Climate Alarmist Fraud?
- The Inversion of America’s Dominant Ideology
- Libertarian Activism: “We Demand Freedom: Popular Movements for Liberty in U.S. History”
- Legalize Organ Sales
- The Euthanasia of the Saver
- Ten Years of Trading Liberty for Security
- Beyond Politics Exposes the Roots of Government Failure
- The Rise of the Plundering Class
- Fisker Karma: Solyndra on Wheels?
- A (Brief) Critical Review of “This Time is Different”
- How Van Halen Explains the U.S. Constitution’s Third Amendment
- Sentences to Ponder
- Ron Paul’s “Plan to Restore America”
- Further Thoughts on Herman Cain’s 999 Plan
- Magna Carta 2011
- Nordhaus on Monetary Reform
- Herman Cain’s 999 Plan
- Internet Taxes
- Can Big Government Be Rolled Back?
- No Surprise: Lobbyists Rule the Deficit “Supercommittee”
- Steve Jobs and John Kenneth Galbraith on the Dependence Effect
- Important New Evidence on Regime Uncertainty
- Steve Jobs: Innovator
- The Ten-Year War
- Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to Be Extended Again?
- The Hidden Premise of Big, Intrusive Government
- Even Michael Savage Is Critical of the Killing of Al-Awlaki
- Ronald Reagan on Open Borders
- Unusually Good Media Coverage of Police Response to Wall St. Protests
- Taxpayers Should Pay Their Fair Share
- Essential Fall Reading from The Independent Review
- Berkeley College Republicans Draw Attention to Race-Based Admission Policies
- The Stagnant U.S. Economy: A Graphical Complement to Higgs’s Contributions
- Noxious Greenhouse Gases on Federal Power and Obamacare
- The Near Meaninglessness of Party Membership
- Will Georgia Execute an Innocent Man?
- Global Regime Uncertainty
- Influential Financial Economist Urges Turn to Austrianism
- The Corruptible TSA
- Obamanomics Hammers the Poor
- SWAT Team Raids: Overkill Fit Only for a Police State
- Books That Make Us Human: My Top Ten List
- Don’t Trust Anything Bipartisan
- Love One Another
- My Country, ‘Tis of Thee
- One More Time: Consumption Spending HAS Already Recovered
- Some More Book Suggestions for the 9/11 Anniversary
- 9/11 Anniversary: Book and Movie Recommendations
- Regime Uncertainty: Pirrong Debunks the Keynesian Debunking
- Some Ironies of Labor Day
- Yankee, Go Home!
- In Calls to “Tax the Rich,” Boxer Can Include Herself
- One Man’s Waste Is Another Man’s Bonanza
- Rogoff on Inflation
- Warren Buffett and O.J. Simpson Have Something in Common
- George Selgin’s Good Money Now in Paperback
- Obama Administration Likely to Attempt to Delay Supreme Court Consideration of Health Care Law
- Anarchy in the UK?
- “Tax Expenditures”: Old Vinegar Rebottled
- Government Stimulus: Polishing the Rotten Apples
- Bolivia’s San Pedro Prison: A Model for Reform?
- As Government Revenues Fall, Asset Seizures Double
- How Government Decides Who Is Qualified
- Inserting the Constitution into the Budget Debate
- Should the United States Have a Say in Who Leads the Governments of Other Countries?
- Justice Scalia to Preside in Mock Trial on Texas Secession
- It’s Housing, Stupid! Parallels Between the 1920s and the 2000s
- Obama’s New Low
- Tobacco and the Limits to Utilitarianism
- Ron Paul Deserves More Respect
- Media Blackout of Ron Paul: Jon Stewart asks “How did Ron Paul become the 13th floor in a hotel?”
- What if the Americans Had Established Six Nations, Rather than One?
- The Euro and the EU: A Complicated Relationship
- Commerce and Health Care: The Eleventh Circuit Speaks
- The Benefits and Hazards of Crisis Economics
- A Failure of Capitalism? Really?
- Paul Krugman: “Space Aliens Could Save U.S. Economy”
- Obama and Hoover: Two “Smart” (Stupid) Presidents
- Who Says Liberals Want Government Out of the Bedroom?
- 168 Children
- Regime Uncertainty and the S&P 500 as a “Fear Indicator”
- How Can Anyone Not Be Outraged?
- Debt Deal Denouement
- The Destructive Evil of Price Controls
- The Confidence Fairy versus the Animal Spirits—Not Really a Fair Fight
- Liberty on Film: Hayek and Others
- Drink, Don’t Drive: How Obama’s Green Obsession Led me to Drink (and it’s good for the planet!)
- Spending Cuts Are More Effective for Deficit Reduction
- Raising the Debt Limit: I Couldn’t Have Said It Better
- Happy Birthday, Mr. President
- A Ghastly Spectacle
- Balanced Budget Baloney
- The Mirage of Constitutional Government
- Dodd-Frank: One Year Later, the Bailout Dilemma Remains
- FDR Redux: A Cartoon Guide to Cutting the National Debt by 40% with the Stroke of a Pen! (Part II)
- FDR Redux: A Cartoon Guide to Cutting the National Debt by 40% with the Stroke of a Pen! (Part I)
- Warren Buffett’s Deficit Reduction Plan
- Let Us All Sacrifice to Balance the Budget
- Justice Done in Louisiana! Whuda Thunk?
- The Profound Hypocrisy of a Clintonian State Department
- Debt Ceiling? Default? These Aren’t Big Issues
- We Need More People Like Rais Bhuiyan in America
- More Evidence Suggestive of Regime Uncertainty
- Church Leaders in Alabama and Georgia Lead Fight Against Harsh Anti-Illegal Immigration Legislation
- The Glorious Failure of a Big Business
- Europeans’ Thoughts on the Greek Bailout
- A Troubling Disrespect for Religious Toleration
- The Killing (and Queering) of History: Why Government Schools are the Problem
- An Easy Solution to the Government’s Debt-Ceiling Impasse
- Mario Vargas Llosa’s Intellectual Journey
- JAMA: State Should Seize Fat Children from Parents
- Sovereign States Default, Repudiate; Sun Still Rises
- Out of the Mouths of Bureaucrats
- Do TSA Scanners Cause Cancer?
- A Bright Idea in Congress
- Uncle Sam’s Bloody Fingerprints on Mexican Drug War Violence
- Politicians and Economists
- McKinley Ruffles FDIC Feathers in Forbes—His Response to FDIC General Counsel Krimminger
- Innocent Until Proven Guilty
- Looming Treasury “Default”: Theater of the Absurd
- Another U.S. War for al-Qaeda
- Patriotism
- Has the American Revolution’s Rationale Lost Its Force?
- The Topsy-Turvy Liberal View of Taxation
- Abolish the Payroll Tax Altogether
- Greek “Privatization” Isn’t
- World War II: Still Being Touted as the Quintessential Keynesian Miracle
- Book Champions Market-Based Law and Justice
- Last Chance to Sign Open Letter to Obama (prominent libertarians, academics, former government officials, liberals, conservatives, etc., already on list)
- Cluelessness Continues at the TSA
- Video Games, the 1st Amendment, and the Trouble with Incorporation
- Weird Al Yankovic: “Party in the C.I.A.”
- Money versus Monetary Base: A Basic Yet Critical Distinction
- Rand Paul to TSA Head: “I Feel Less Safe”
- U2: Keep Your Money
- Why Isn’t Rick Scott More Popular?
- Politics, Briefly
- Congressional Staffers Paid $13 million by Ex-Employers in 2009
- The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that Hasn’t Occurred
- Inflation Update
- Heaven Help Us All: TSA Union Vote Ends Today
- War on Terror Is Bad for Economy
- The TSA: A (Minor?) Complaint
- New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof: The Military as Socialist Model for America
- Redefining War Downwards
- We’ve Always Been at War With Yemen
- Summer 2011 Issue of The Independent Review Now Available. Discuss.
- The House of Representatives Does the Right thing
- Land Use Planning Takes a Step Back in Florida
- Blessed Anonymity
- Facebook Gets Multicultural About China and Censorship
- Government “Waste” Is the Least of Our Problems
- War Costs Soar, and Yet More War Than We Bargained For
- US Should Stay Out of Greek Bailout
- When All You Have Is a Hammer
- Expel These Vultures
- Nanny State Attacks Jewish, Muslim Manhood
- Bloomberg: Put Higgs’s Name on That Nobel
- Florida’s Fiscal Conservatism
- The Hack Attack That Will Live in Infamy
- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Immigration Myths
- Australian Government Climate Scientist: Carbon Warming Too Minor to Be Worth Worrying About
- Backlash Builds Against TSA
- CARTOON VIDEO: What About Bob? Social Security Talk in 2035
- Robert Higgs Speaks on the U.S. Government’s Ethanol Scam
- Alex Tabarrok Interviewed on Freakonomics Radio: The Economics of Bounty Hunting
- Where’d the Patriot Act’s Malcontents Go?
- Some Suggestions for Jerry Brown on the Prison Situation
- Lobbying and the Financial Crisis
- Students: Enroll in an Independent Institute Summer Seminar!
- Academic Freedom at Florida State University
- Commencement Season Disconnect
- An Open Letter to Obama (Bring Home the Troops)
- Obama “Stimulus” Protected 450,000 Government Jobs, Destroyed One Million Private Jobs
- Syria: The Next Theater for War?
- Emily Skarbek Is Interviewed on the Government Cost Calculator on Reason TV
- Philanthropy and Academic Freedom at Florida State University
- The Bipartisan Crackdown on Immigrants
- The Drug War’s Ravages in Guatemala
- Robert Higgs on War, Taxation and Government Power
- “O(h no) Canada!” MTV Signature Song Banned
- Hayek to the Rescue in Tuscaloosa (My Wall Street Journal Article)
- A Conversation about Gasoline Prices
- Spontaneous Order Leads Tuscaloosa Tornado Relief Via Talk Radio
- Osama’s Been Killed — Ten Haiku
- Bin Laden’s Revenge
- And the War Goes On, and On, and On
- Killing a Man Does Not Testify to National Greatness
- The National Nanny Is Back with a Vengeance
- It Still Wasn’t Worth It, and Is More War Coming?
- Two Bearded Germans of the Nineteenth Century
- Obama vs. the San Francisco Chronicle
- Totalitarian Art
- Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Video Round Two
- The Newest on the U.S. Dungeon at Guantanamo
- Health Care Quote of the Day
- The Obama Tsunami
- Easter Lessons, Revisited
- Why Johnny Can’t Read: State Legislators’ Skewed Priorities
- Objectivity, Probability, and Scholarship
- Bootlegger-and-Baptist Alert
- The War Was About Oil, After All
- Budget Cut Not as Historically Significant as Claimed
- Atlas Shrugged; Obama Stands Firm
- Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policy Making
- The Fed as the U.S. Economy’s New Central Planner
- Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
- Inflation on the Way?
- Obama’s Budget Plan: Goals, but No Plan to Achieve Them
- Whose money is it?
- Libertarian Defends Professor Cronon (while blasting the hypocrisy of the Left)
- Scott Horton (Human Rights Attorney) to Speak at the University of Alabama on Thursday
- Brit jailed for burning the Koran
- It’s Official: Environmentalism Is the New Religion
- 250 Legal Scholars Condemn Obama’s Treatment of Bradley Manning
- Public Employee Union Boycott Threat Backfires
- Mexicans Are Fed Up with the War on Drugs
- Saved from the Precipice of Doom
- Democracy is Over-Rated
- How Can Anyone Take This Seriously?
- Pity the Poor Imperial Executive
- You Must Own This Book: Great Wars and Great Leaders
- Work in Progress: A Boy and His Mom
- Bruce Benson Discusses His Book Property Rights
- Is the CIA Helping More al-Qaeda Associates?
- The President Should Set Goals for His Administration, Not Those that Follow
- Why They Hate Us
- Charles Peña Critiques Obama’s War in Libya on Fox Business Channel
- The Anti-Suffragette: War-Mongering Women’s Place Is Not in Power
- Charles Peña to Reply to Obama on Libya: Freedom Watch on Fox Business Channel Tonight
- Has Economic Science Stagnated?
- Comparative Advantage in Fiction
- Zora and Spike on “that Greek slut”
- Hayek versus the 2010 Healthcare and Financial Industry Reforms
- How to Garner Support for a War
- War’s Unbelievable Price Tag
- A Harvard First that the University Rarely Touts
- Remember Those 2001 Anthrax Attacks?
- Jon Stewart: Obama Launches Unconstitutional “Un”-War in Libya Without Congress
- The Pentagon’s Pro-War Sock Puppets
- The Independent Review—Spring 2011 Issue Now Available
- Skarbek and Shughart Interviewed on Budget & Tax News Podcast
- Barack Obama Public School Failure
- Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex
- Another Presidential War. Yawn.
- Robert Higgs on Why Government Is Prolonging the Economic Crisis
- Morris David Morris (February 10, 1921 – March 12, 2011)
- Nuclear Power and the State
- The 1 Percent Solution to Balancing the Federal Budget
- Andrew Klavan: “Behold! Your Public Sector Unions at Work”
- Larry Summers Claims Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster Will Boost Economy
- Congressional Hearings on Islamic Extremism Will Be Counterproductive
- Juan Cole at the University of Alabama Tonight on Liberty and Power and the Middle East
- A Chance for Peace, 1953
- The U.S. Surveillance State: Big Brother on Steroids
- The Past and Future of American Antimilitarism
- Derek Leebaert’s Magic and Mayhem
- Leadership in Politics and in Commerce
- Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed
- The Matchmakers of Predatory Politics
- Cy pres in Class Action Lawsuits: Alive and Well?
- Why Is Ralph Nader Surprised by Pres. Obama’s Uncharitableness?
- A Quick Look at U.S. Government Debt
- Politics and Government “Investment”
- Numbers to Settle Debates: Three Cool Sites
- GM Is Profitable Again, but Taxpayers Are Still in the Red
- What’s Holding Back the Recovery?
- Obama’s Favor to BP: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
- A Presidents’ Day Prayer
- Presidential Role Model
- Private Business Net Investment Remains in a Deep Ditch
- Talking to Liberals About Revolution
- TSA Thugs
- Obama’s Budget: The Greek Model of Public Finance
- Gabriel Roth Debunks Government Transit Subsidies
- High-Speed Rail and the Poverty of Obamanomics
- Blogger, Post at Your Peril
- Felonious Massage
- Hosni Mubarak and Saddam Hussein
- Economic Growth: Incentives Matter
- Why Are Spanish Authorities Using Such a Heavy Hand against a Small Religious Group?
- The Social Security Trust Fund
- Florida Judge Strikes Down Obamacare
- Public Service Is a Noble Calling, Some Say
- SOTUS Doesn’t Dispel Regime Uncertainty
- Cut the Corporate Tax Rate? Representative Ryan’s 8.5% Business Consumption Tax
- Freedom Is Not Compatible with Government’s Initiation of Force against Innocent People
- Inflation-Targeting versus Fiscal Stimulus
- Debating the Great Depression: Steve Horwitz’s Latest Contribution
- Adam Smith on Tax-Regime Uncertainty
- Jared Lee Loughner: Suspect… or Killer?
- Fatty Footprints: A Modest Proposal Based on Liberal Groupthink
- The U.A.W.’s Plan to Move All Auto Manufacturing Overseas
- The Government on the Extent of the Commerce Power
- Biblically Inspired Verses for Contemporary Americans
- Should Wages Never Fall?
- Who Killed JFK? The Conservative “Climate of Hate”!
- Tea Party Rhetoric and the Arizona Shooting
- Why Not Gun Control for the Government?
- The Daily Show Skewers San Francisco’s Ban of Happy Meals
- Limited Government? Keep an Eye on Florida
- Fat Cats, Big Dogs, and Campaign Finance Reform
- The EPA and Corporate Welfare: More from the Climate-Government-Industrial Complex
- Don’t Accuse Me of Blaming America When I Blame the Government
- Wikileaks: Presidents Like Immunity
- Commerce, Economic Activity, Obamacare, and the Anti-Federalists
- Happy Birthday, Ronald Coase and Thank You for Our Logo!
- News Item: Nearly 100 Banks Benefiting from TARP Are on the Brink of Collapse
- Obama Seeks “Death Panels” by Regulation
- Jurors’ Moral Duty
- States Without Income Taxes Gain Representatives
- Has the Federal Government O’erleaped Its Constitutional Limits and Grown Too Big?
- $2 Trillion Debt Crisis Threatens 100 U.S. Cities
- ComeHomeAmerica.us Hits the Stands
- Christmas Flash Mob Sings “Hallelujah Chorus” at Shopping Mall Food Court
- Congress Repeals Ban on Gays in Military
- Florida District Judge Hints that Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
- The Plundering Class
- Mad Dogs and Politicians – But I Repeat Myself
- Different Opinions on the Tax Compromise
- Virginia Judge Strikes Down Provisions of Health Care Law
- Student Riots in Britain: Very Disturbing
- C-SPAN to Air Independent Policy Forum: “Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in America”
- Communism’s Persistent Pull
- Edward Lopez with David Theroux on the New Book, The Pursuit of Justice
- Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa Interviewed at Pepperdine University
- Great Depression, Round Two? Senior Fellow Robert Higgs on The Peter Schiff Show
- MyGovCost.org Director Emily Skarbek Talks Tax Cuts and the Government Cost Calculator
- It’s Pearl Harbor Day—Trot Out the Official Fable
- The Proposed New “Tax Deal” is More of the Same Washington Bait and Switch
- SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Global Warming Suit
- Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: Deja Vu Once Again
- Repeal Amendment Causing Waves
- Arnold Harberger on the Chicago Boys
- The Federal Reserve: Deficit Enabler
- There’s “Hope” for Reducing the Federal Debt
- WikiLeaks: A Litmus Test That All Too Many Fail
- TSA: What Would Rosa Parks Do?
- Virginia District Court Upholds Obamacare
- U.S. District Judge Puts Oklahoma’s Question 755 on Hold
- Can the Federal Courts Release State Prisoners Because of Overcrowding?
- 9th Circuit Panel to Review Judge Vaughn Walker’s Prop 8 Ruling Announced
- That Portland Terror Plot
- If the Government Does X, It Is Called Y
- Be Patriotic! Cheat! Spend!
- He’s Back! Bill Ayers, Robert Kennedy’s Son — and What this Has to Do With “Higher” Education
- Another Euro-Skeptic Calls for Disintegration of the European Union
- Travelers (Especially Men and Children), Beware: Urgent Warning from Scientists on TSA Machines’ Radiation
- Al Gore Opposes Corn-Based Ethanol Subsidies
- Preemptive War/Preemptive Body Scans
- The Economist on the Austrian School of Economics’ Relevance in Explaining the Current Crisis
- Ditch TSA? There’s a Congressman’s Proposal I Can Support!
- New TSA Checkpoint Sign
- Ban Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages? Can I Still Mix My Own?
- Would a Value Added Tax Help Reduce the Deficit?
- A Modest Proposal for Shrinking Big Government
- Blinder: Keynesianism is Right, Because Keynesians Are Really Smart
- Paul Krugman’s “Solution” to the U.S. Deficit: Death Panels and VAT
- Is the War on Terror Eroding Free Speech?
- Bernanke Dollars
- Notes on Bernanke’s Apologia for QE2
- Obamacare According to Its Planners
- Flying Robot Police
- No Interest on Daylight Savings
- Are Political Narratives Falsifiable?
- Unintended Consequences of the War on Drugs
- First They Came for the Happy Meals
- Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Video II
- Election Day
- U.S. “Intelligence” Spending: A Whale of a Bad Joke
- “Faith-based” Stooges for the State
- “American Pie” – Altered to Lament My Life and Times as an Economist
- Conservatives and the Trap of “Liberalism Lite”
- The Very Strange Race for Florida’s U.S. Senate Seat
- Do You Have a Permit for That Birthday Cake?
- Another Fabricated Terror Threat
- Scholars Shed Light on Enviro-Econ Wars
- Wikileaks: Torture, War Crimes, Thousands of Deaths
- Michael Roberts: Heroic Pilot Stands Up for His Constitutional Rights
- Mainstream Economists Will Have a Blast at This Year’s Halloween Parties
- Should You Be Able to Sell Your Vote?
- This Week in The Lighthouse: Road to Recovery | Nobel Prize | Obama’s Wars | Runaway Defense Spending
- The Recession Is Your Fault
- Buy High, Sell Low
- I Now Report Sightings of Shovel-Ready Projects
- Sweden’s Leftists Angered by Mario Vargas Llosa’s Nobel Prize in Literature
- Justice versus “Social Justice”
- New Investor Survey Provides Additional Evidence of Regime Uncertainty
- New York Times Admits I’m Right about Government Failure, but . . . . A Cautionary Tale for Classical Liberals
- Top Physicists Protest the Corruption of Science
- California Diesel Law Based on Gross Overestimate
- Congratulations to Mario Vargas Llosa on Receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature
- “The Socialist”
- WASPishness Ain’t What It Used to Be
- Multicultural Milkshakes Give Way to the Solace of Sustainability
- Dr. Emily Skarbek Talks about the Government Cost Calculator on Taking Back America
- Progress Has Made Some Song Lyrics Obsolete
- This Week’s Lighthouse: Obama’s New Stimulus | The Old West | Afghanistan | Ecuador
- The Jason Lewis Show Interviews Emily Skarbek on the Government Cost Calculator
- Joseph Sobran, 1946-2010
- Who’s Threatening Whom?
- Fiscal Year 2011 Begins Today, Without a Budget
- Gold to Go: Coming to a Town Near You?
- The Obama Administration Makes BP Look Good
- Here’s the Ballot in Florida’s Fascinating Senate Race
- Credit Shortage or Regime Uncertainty?
- Higgs Comes to the University of Alabama (Liberty and Power Lectures, October 5)
- Laptop Bombardiers, circa 1942
- Good Riddance to President Obama’s First Economic “Brains Trust”
- Bootlegger-and-Baptist Alert, Reefer Madness Edition
- This Week in The Lighthouse: Government’s Cost | U.S. Economy | Fourth Amendment | Venezuelan Elections
- Another Crisis Over, Thanks to the Government
- The Great Divergence: Private Investment and Government Power in the Present Crisis
- Explaining the Republican Lead
- The Benefits of TARP
- Why Is Gold at a New High?
- Interesting Perspective
- Trouble in Welfare-State Paradise: France, Sweden and Cuba
- Regime Uncertainty Evidence du Jour
- Why the Violent Crime Decline? And Why So High to Begin With?
- SF Fed: Immigrants a Boon to U.S.
- Regime Uncertainty: Reports Keep Coming In
- What If This Were Bush?
- Congressional Democrats’ Adviser Joins Call for Regime Certainty
- Mosques, Book Burnings, Collectivism and War Worship
- More Bad News for Climate Alarmists: Ice Melt Is Lower and Its Cause Dates 20,000 Years Ago
- Another Softball Climate Change Investigation
- New York Times Finally Gets It: “Let Housing Prices Fall!”
- Public School Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
- Consumption Spending Is 70 Percent of GDP — So What?
- The Business of Business is to Make Profits
- Is Obama a Traitor to His Class?
- Richard Fuld: Multi-Millionaire Whiner
- Fewer Illegals, More anti-Illegal Sentiment
- Do the Post-Panic Changes in Corporate Bond Yield Curves Indicate Regime Uncertainty or Only Expectations of Increased Inflation?
- Macroeconomic Policy, European-Style
- “Liberal” Appeals Court OKs Warrantless GPS Tracking by Feds
- The Costs of Federal Bailouts—How much do YOU pay??
- MyGovCost’s Government Cost Calculator: Buzz Begins!
- Robert Higgs Interviewed: The Expanding Pork for Military Pay and Towns
- The Misinterpretation of the Keynesian “Liquidity Trap”
- Blacks in Montgomery Organize Against “Eminent Domain through the Back Door”
- Affordable Housing
- Dr. Seuss Economics: “I do not like this Uncle Sam”
- Regime Uncertainty: Are Interest-Rate Movements Consistent with the Hypothesis?
- This Week in The Lighthouse: Britain’s Budget Cuts, Nationalizing Marriage, Privatize Police, Entrepreneurship
- Abolish the TSA
- C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism, Part 3 (Final)
- An Eventual Korean Unification? It’s Complicated…
- The Iraq War Is Over
- C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism, Part 2
- Did North Korea Sink the Cheonan?
- This Week in The Lighthouse: Obamacare, Renewable Energy, Ground Zero Mosque, Counterinsurgency Strategy
- Puritanism = Constructivism?
- More Economists Join Higgs’s Call to “Do Nothing”
- Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?
- C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism, Part 1
- The Increasingly Risky Federal Income Tax Portfolio
- Race Card Maxed Out
- “Born in the U.S.A.”: Damon Root’s Reminder of our Proud Exceptionalism
- Big Brother in Your Dashboard
- This Week in The Lighthouse: Economic Recovery, Double-Taxing Energy, Afghanistan, Bullfighting
- It’s Uncertainty, Stupid!
- Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor
- Obama: GM Will Repay Bailout Money?
- Manuel F. Ayau (1925-2010)
- Fox News on Montgomery’s Eminent Domain Through the Back Door
- Obama Has Solidified the Bush Police State
- This Week in The Lighthouse: WikiLeaks, Right to Bear Arms, Trillion Dollar Foreign Policy, Venezuela
- I Believe Charlie Rangel
- Carry on Baggage Fees: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
- Human Rights and Economic Liberalization
- Mussolini Would be Proud: Obama Ballyhoos the Auto Industry Bailout
- More on the Climate Government-Industrial Complex
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Need To Go
- Why More Spending Doesn’t Produce Better Schools
- President Obama’s $20 Billion Tactical Error
- Monopoly and the Memphis Riot of 1866
- This Week’s Lighthouse: Oil Spill, Cuba, Constitutions, Gaza
- Obama’s War on Immigrants
- Markets Turn the Miraculous Into the Mundane
- Bill for the Unborn: $20,000 (FY 2011)
- A Splendid Essay on the Two Great Classes in Contemporary America
- Get Involved With Government?
- U.S. Cities at Long Last Begin Grasping the Benefits of Privatization
- Why This Gigantic “Intelligence” Apparatus? Follow the Money
- This Week’s The Lighthouse: Elena Kagan, Foreign Investment, Russian Spies, and Uganda Bombings
- Stephen Halbrook’s Legal Revolution for Second Amendment Rights
- The Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit: Available Now!
- Neoconservatism: An Obituary?
- Another Stimulus Boondoggle
- Does the Latest Climategate Investigation Exonerate the Scientists Involved?
- “Tough on Immigrants” Is Not Good Policy
- Romer’s Research: Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts Will Be Highly Contractionary
- Extend Unemployment Benefits? Politics Versus Economics
- Obama “Disses” the Federal Courts
- Frederic Bastiat, Call Your Office
- Viva Las Vegas!
- Charles Pena on CNBC, Explaining the Afghanistan Quagmire
- Robert Higgs Interview on Growth of Big Brother
- Too Much Research
- LeBronomics!
- Robert Higgs on the Consequences of Leviathan-sized Government
- Bush’s FEMA Was No Gem Either
- “The Biggest Threat We Have to Our National Security Is Our Debt”
- Can Markets Provide Police Services?
- Truth in Political Advertising
- If the U.S. Won’t Drill Oil Offshore, Other Nations Will
- Michael Steele Gets It Right
- Disaster, Heartbreak, and Unavoidable Trade-offs
- William Watkins on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Discussing Supreme Court Nominations
- Should We Subsidize Media?
- Second Amendment Incorporated Against the States
- Not From The Onion: New Light Bulb Warning Labels
- Homebuyer Tax Credit: Debt Financed Public Policy
- Economics in the Blogosphere, or, “OK, I’ll Help This Go Viral”
- Some Pieces of the Deepwater Horizon Puzzle
- Regime Uncertainty Now Spooks Even Obama’s Former Big Business Allies
- Encouraging Roadblocks in the War on Oil
- The Pursuit of Justice and Private Interests in the Law
- Out of the Mouths of Investment Managers
- Putting the Gulf Oil Spill in Perspective…
- IPCC Insider Admits Climate Consensus Claim Was a Lie
- Aspirations and Reality
- Supreme Court Issues Opinion on Work Place Privacy
- Is Obama Frodo? Or Liberalism in General?
- Jon Stewart Bashes Obama as Hypocritical Enemy of Civil Liberties
- The Real World . . .
- Government Spending: Recommended Web Site
- Rival-Funded Wal-Mart Demonstrators Beggar Thy Neighbor
- Iran Watch: 50,000 Buses and One Million No Shows
- Which End, if Any, Is Near?
- Tax the Productive
- The Pursuit of Justice and Elected vs. Appointed Judges
- Alvin Greene and Making Sausage
- Proposition 14: Bad for California and the Nation
- What is The Pursuit of Justice?
- What’s a Disaster?
- Trojan Horse Health Care Bill Unloads Formidable Tax Form Burden
- Politics, Markets, and The Housing Boom and Bust
- John Lotts’s More Guns, Less Crime Now in Expanded Edition
- Getting Macroeconomic Policy Back On Track
- Robert Higgs Interviewed: Government’s Intrusions Threaten Economy
- Supreme Court Issues New Guidance on Miranda
- Consent of the Governed?
- Steamboats and Oil Rigs
- Billionaire Entrepreneur Complains of Regime Uncertainty
- The Onion: Congressmen Demand Passage of “The IHOP Should Stay Open All Night Act”
- Noel Campbell on Immigration
- What’s Wrong With This Global Warming Story?
- The TSA’s Double-Secret Probation List
- If Only the Onion Were the Real News
- Private Pay Shrinks to Historic Lows
- Twelve Parallels in Political Economy
- Jury Not Judge to Decide Whether a Weapon Is a Machine Gun
- The White House Can Not End World Hunger
- South Korea’s Best Response…
- Child Porn Penalties and Jury Nullification
- Immigration and Big Government
- Who Did More To Help the Poor: Sam Walton or Mother Teresa?
- Trans-Partisan Anti-Establishmentarianism
- Five Economic Lessons from Haiti
- Civil Commitments: Necessary and Proper??
- Why a Stock Analyst Saw Through the “Hockey Stick” Hoax
- Why Beauty Matters with Roger Scruton
- “Common Objections to Capitalism” in Copenhagen
- Today at the Supreme Court
- Great Moments in American Statesmanship
- Peter Klein’s The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur
- Surprise! Health Care Bill “Likely to Top” $1 Trillion “Budget”
- Questions of the Day
- Is This Price Gouging?
- If We’re Protecting Ourselves, Why Do We Need a Police State?
- The EU’s Greek Bailout Mistake
- The New Holy Wars Wins Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize
- When a Congressman Says X, He Is Thinking Y
- The Most Important Paper You’ve Ever (Never?) Read…
- The Green Police Are Here!
- Should Hillary Have the Power to Strip You of Your Citizenship?
- Unhappy Meals: Nanny State Bans Toys for Kiddies
- A Woman’s Right to Choose
- Democrats Push for National ID
- Profile in Cowardice: Allah is Great! Die South Park Die!
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Making Sense on Ending the “Slavery Blame-Game”
- Financial Reform: Bigger Government, for the Benefit of Special Interests
- Robert Higgs Debates James Galbraith on Obamanomics
- Freedom from Bad Academic Writing
- The Fed’s Interest Rate Gamble
- Property and Plunder, circa 2010
- The Central Bank’s Powers Should Be Curtailed, Monetary Expert Argues
- Did Goldman Sachs Foresee the Mortgage Collapse?
- Property and Plunder: A Guest Post from Frederic Bastiat
- Tax Day Tea Party
- April 19: A Great Day to Distrust Government
- Data Don’t Bleed
- Defense Spending Is Much Greater than You Think
- The Inconvenient History of the State
- Should Teachers Have Tenure?
- Robert Higgs’s Recent Interview by Libertad Digital (here in English)
- Homeschooled Teens: Learn about Today’s Economy!
- Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest Deadline Approaches
- Census Inverted: No Representation Without Taxation?
- Inflation: Our Cure for Debt
- C.S. Lewis on the Welfare State: Dangers of Obamacare
- The New Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons
- ObamaCare will Make Employees and Employers Worse Off
- General McChrystal’s Admission of Guilt
- Declaration of Dependence: Self-Evident Truths for the New Age
- Our Present Situation: Eight Haiku
- It Is About Power and Fear
- Anarchists for Big Government
- The H1N1 Vaccine: An Example of Government Health Care
- Tax Police and the Health Mandate: We Will, We Won’t, We Are Not Saying
- Cure Voter Apathy: Let Them Vote “None of the Above”
- The Left Called the U.S. Government Fascist, Too
- The Broken Window Fallacy
- How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the FBI
- Q&A on Obamacare
- Some Lessons from Easter
- Economics and More on Twitter
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Obamacare Is Unconstitutional
- Nothing Outside the State: Part II
- Robert Higgs on Booms, Busts and Bad Predictions
- Tunnel of Oppression: Communist Theme Park
- The Middle Class Welfare State
- Samizdat: The Libertarian Alarm Clock
- Sergey Brin Takes a Stand
- A Leftist Critique of Obamacare
- Coming Soon: Marijuana Legalization
- The Health-Care Reform Act: Que Paso?
- Mike Church Interviews Robert Higgs
- Obamacare Will Cut Costs? The Market Shows Otherwise
- The V.A.’s Failure to Provide: The Promise of Obamacare
- Ratchet Effect
- Christopher Walken on the “Census Bureau”
- Papiere Bitte!
- Pender Wins In Arbitration
- A Few Questions for President Obama
- Nothing Outside the State
- C-SPAN Archives, and How Government Does it
- Mitt warns against “Independent” Thinking
- John Papola on the Keynes-Hayek Rap Video
- The Slippery Slope is Greased with Trans Fats
- Robert Higgs On Freedom Watch: The Stimulus Bill 1 Year On
- Public Justice
- Are Americans as Cynical as the Census Bureau Thinks?
- Blogging from a Plane
- James Otteson on Karl Marx v. Adam Smith
- Mayoral Nostalgia for the New Deal
- Should the City Be Liable for Rachel’s Death?
- Will Obama Cave on Civilian Trials?
- McCain-Lieberman Bill Flirts with Totalitarianism
- Is the Current Recovery a Pinata with No Candy Inside?
- Anthrax Attacks Show Government Officials Made of (Flawed!) Human Material
- New Versions of Two Papers Online
- Census Forms Hand Delivered?
- When Krugman Was Good
- The U.N.’s IPCC Tries Damage Control
- Census Data “Strictly Confidential”?
- Atlas, Shrugging
- Anatomy of the Current Recession
- Headline: Lending Falls at Epic Pace
- Senator James Inhofe Wants Criminal Investigation of Al Gore and Other Global Warmists
- Ben Bernanke Gives Ron Paul the “Idiot Treatment” (Watergate Payoffs)
- The Marco Rubio Phenomenon
- There’s No Such Thing As A Free Office Chair
- The Fed Increases the Discount Rate and Markets Yawn
- General Odierno tells the truth…
- All We Are Saying, Is Give Charisma a Chance
- Amendment 28
- One More Time: World War II Did Not Bring Us Out of the Depression
- Avatar and Just War Theory
- “There has been no warming since 1995”
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Military Tribunals Are Unconstitutional
- The University of Alabama at Huntsville (Another “Gun Free Zone”)
- More on Iran’s Nuclear Non-threat
- Snowed Under in Washington, DC
- Murray Rothbard Teaches Microeconomics
- Bailing Out Greece: An Opportunity to Create a More Powerful EU
- Maybe It Should be Renamed the Darwin Peace Prize
- Bernanke’s Big Bank Subsidy
- Threatening War with Iran
- Audi’s Super Bowl Ad: “The Green Police”
- The Moral Corruption of Militarism
- The Lynch-mob Mentality in the “War on Terror”
- Obama’s Tax-and-Spend Bender
- Expanding the Drug War
- Harmful Tax Practices: Harmful to Whom?
- Kauffman Economic Outlook
- 2081 Depicts the Threat of “Egalitarian” Tyranny
- Corporate Spending on Political Speech
- The Audacity of Obama’s State of the Union
- British Science Chief Condemns Climate Alarmists
- Obama’s “Spending Freeze” is Complete Fraud: Locks in 20% Higher Spending
- “Fear the Boom and Bust”: Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Video
- We Are It, or Not: Government versus Corporation
- My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?
- America’s Hidden Strength: Babies, Immigration
- State Opposition to Federal Healthcare Reform
- Hillary: Let Them Eat “Authority”
- The State Government Pension Crisis
- Hear John T. Flynn
- Memo To Business: We Want You To Hire, So We’re Putting More Burdens On You
- Brrrrr: Global Warming Science “Settled”?
- Pity the Poor Private-Sector Workers
- Easterly, Acton, and Visionary Leadership
- John Coleman, Founder of the Weather Channel, on the Real Science of Global Warming
- California’s Economic Decline
- Is Crime Caused by a Lack of Economic Opportunity?
- On the Term “Religion”
- Historians Against the War (For Progressives Only, Libertarians Not Welcome)
- Regime Uncertainty—Now Maybe People Will Take the Idea Seriously
- The Myth of National Security
- The Naughties: Could Have Been Worse
- Entitlement U.S.A.: Colleges as Attendance Centers
- Would the World Be Better Without Religion?
- Dave Barry’s Review of the Year 2009
- Thirteen Outstanding Books of the Past Decade
- Christopher Monckton on Scientific American‘s Defense of Climate Alarmism
- Detroit: A City Destroyed by “Progressive” Statism
- The State of Our Affairs: Seven Haiku
- Time to Eat the Dog
- Obamacare Progresses, Corporate State Cheers
- The Supreme Court Has Spoken: You Have No Rights
- Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in U.S. Contracts in Afghanistan
- “Yes, Mr. President”: Clunkers, not Kids
- See No Evil: Obama and Iran
- Is Scandal Inevitable when Scientists Become Activists?
- Medicare’s Refusal of Medical Claims Continues to Outpace Private Rate
- Would a Health Insurance Mandate Help?
- Higgs Is Just a Pessimist
- Another $50 Billion Stimulus Rush?
- U.S. Government Should Take a Lesson from Dubai: Leave Venture Capital to Capitalists
- Three Views on Profit
- New Dealers for the Second Amendment
- Paul A. Samuelson, 1915-2009
- “Not-So-Silent”: Coolidge and Civil Rights
- Lord Monckton and Greenpeace Campaigner at U.N. Copenhagen Conference
- More on Climategate and the Alarmist Hoax
- Are they Nuts? Oh, wait, it is the United Nations!
- The Federal Bureaucracy-Plutocracy
- Shattered Dreams
- The “Trick” to “Hide the Decline”
- Boeing and the Higgs Effect
- The Auto Bailout One Year Later: Was It Necessary? Did It Work?
- ClimateGames
- New Paper: Human Rights and Economic Liberalization
- My Naivete
- Robert Higgs on Bernanke and the Federal Reserve on Fox News “Freedom Watch”
- Obama’s LBJ Moment
- Former Tesla Executive Questions “Green” Corporate Welfare
- What Is Obama Thinking?
- If Obama’s Speech Writers Wanted to Quote Eisenhower….
- Do We Take Miracles of Capitalism for Granted?
- Fred Singer on the BBC on Climategate and the Science Regarding Global Warming
- Original TV Production of The Prisoner Is Now Online
- Victims of the Tax State: The Singing Nun
- A Reader’s Guide to Bernanke’s Preemptive Attack
- The “Scientific” Fraud of Climate Doomsday Mongering
- Torture Renders Suspects Unfit for Trial
- Was Nature’s Publication of Higgs’s Peer Review Critique a Call for Help?
- Will the Real Rate of Unemployment Please Stand Up
- They Blinded Us With Science: Alex Berezow on the Not-So-New “Science Presidency”
- Saturday Night Live Lampoons Obama
- Congress’s Accelerating Dereliction of Duty
- Climate Conspiracy: U.K., U.S. “ClimateGates”
- America’s Growing Black Market: Freedom in Action
- Government Responds to Economic Woes by Making More Bad Mortgage Loans
- State Opposition to Federal Healthcare Reform
- Memo to Bankrupt Cities: Try Competition
- Broken-Window Alert
- Observations on Obamacare
- Conservatives for Due Process
- It’s High Time to Take Back Our Schools
- Random Sightings on a Walk through My Notebook
- You Gotta Be Kidding Me
- Constitutional Questions About Government Health Care
- Another Weak Case for Staying in Afghanistan
- Classical Liberalism Is All in Our Heads? Responding to Paul Harvey on Race
- The MSM Rediscovers the Classics
- Student Blogs: Speaking Truth to Pooh-bahs
- Government is Responsible for the Sorry State of our Roads and Bridges
- Obama’s Stimulus Credibilty Gap on Unemployment
- More Evidence of Current Regime Uncertainty?
- Those Pesky Tax Laws II
- Newsweek Tries to Narrow Its Subscriber Base
- Libertarian: What’s in a Label?
- Obama Is Worried
- In Praise of Virginia Foxx: “Health Care Bill A Greater Threat Than Any Terrorist in the World”
- Can the Rampaging Leviathan Be Stopped or Slowed?
- Drugs: Should They Be Legal or Illegal?
- Robert Higgs on Fox News: The Folly of Obama’s Spending Spree
- If You Like Congress’s Health Plan, Ya Wanna Buy a Bridge?
- Florida’s Public Option
- Sisyphus and Higher Education
- Gary Johnson May Run for President
- Resigning from the Empire
- Democracy’s Most Critical Defect
- Memo to Obama: Capitalism Trumps Racism
- Don’t Forget Iraq
- The Maximum Wage Law
- Land of Obama Signs Away Children’s Future to Teachers’ Union
- Never Trust a Government Conviction
- Is This How Carbon Credits Work?
- Antitrust Law: Another Bizarro World
- Rush Limbaugh and the Race Hustle
- Hope and Change in Memphis
- The Administration’s Brazen Corporatist Hypocrisy
- The Bizarro World of Insider-Trading Regulation
- “Green” Hoax-Mongers Dupe Major Media (Again)
- Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy
- Will Layoffs be based on Diversity?
- Nice Nobel!
- “I am Woman”: Sharia is OK with Me
- Partisan Politics—A Fool’s Game for the Masses
- Biological Determinism, as with Marxist Determinism, Is Folly
- Man in the Moon Protests Obama Peace Prize
- Lou Dobbs (Yes, Lou Dobbs): Petition to Bring Home All Troops
- The Rationales Behind Empire Shift Again
- Spreading the Wealth: An Introduction to Political Biology
- Fox’s Shephard Smith Defends the Public Option
- Good for Chicago
- Uh-oh, the Administration Is Contemplating Further Stimulus
- Robert Higgs on Barack Obama as Herbert Hoover’s True Heir
- What Jimmy Carter Doesn’t Know
- Freedom from Fear: Crime and the Diversity Hustle
- A Real Scandal the Mainstream Media Won’t Touch
- TARP After One Year: Was It Necessary? Did It Work?
- Progressive Claptrap
- Federal Health Care Reform, Paid For By the States, and the 17th Amendment
- Hyper-Inflation, Up Close and Personal
- Contest to Reward Essays about Government Parasitism
- Taxed if You Do, Taxed if You Don’t
- How Far We’ve Slid
- Sexual Harassment Procedures: The Orwellian Nightmare
- Coming Soon: “Mercantilism: A Love Story”
- Emergency Room Visits Increase Under Universal Coverage
- The Fed Should Not Regulate Bankers’ Compensation
- Masters or Slaves?
- Graham Greene on “Death Panels”
- The Fed’s Industrial Policy
- Mirabile Dictu — An Intelligent Foreign Policy Decision
- Military Blogs: The First Pages of History
- We Can’t Afford an $856 Billion Health Reform
- Race and Development
- Ah, More “Change”
- What’s the Point of Demonstrating?
- The Keynesians Were Wrong Way Before the 1970s
- Anti-Big-Government DC Demonstration Draws Huge Crowd: “Don’t Tread on Me”
- Why is the Senate in the Tourism Business?
- The Public Option: The President’s Analogy
- Why Does Health Insurance Cost So Much?
- ObamaCare Speech: I’m Radical and Mad as Hell
- A Lesson in Politics from Hubert Humphrey
- America’s Militaristic Culture
- To Serve and Obstruct
- Obama in the Classroom
- Obama or Palin: The Neocons Win Either Way
- Housing America
- Bad News: The Real Wage Rate Is Rising
- “10 Reasons to Oppose the Sustainability Movement on Your Campus”
- “Right to Carry” and the “Tragedy of the Commons”
- World War II: An Unspeakable Horror Now Encrusted in Myths
- Conservative Opposition to Afghan War Mounting
- Get in Touch with Your Inner Survivorman? New FEMA Head Encourages It
- Industrial Policy or Economic Democracy?
- Inglourious Basterds: “An Eye-for-an-eye” Makes the Whole World Blind
- Bernanke’s Reappointment
- An Encouraging Trend
- A Question for Liberals on Trusting the Government
- Seventy Years Ago Today: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
- A Neglected Masterpiece of Economic Analysis
- Why Do We Accept in Ourselves That Which We Condemn in Others?
- What To Do With What You Did Over Your Summer Vacation (2009 Edition)
- Socialist or Corporatist Medicine?
- Was the Star of a New Movie About Profiling, Profiled?
- Making the Extraordinary Ordinary
- The Netroots are Bored by Obama’s Wars
- Mohammad and Man at Yale: Book Burning (One Cartoon at a Time)
- Ben Bernanke Must Go
- Pelosi’s New House Un-American Activities Committee
- Bank of America Settlement on Hold
- CalTrans takes California’s Taxpayers for a Ride
- The “Unintended” Consequences of “Cash for Clunkers”
- The Anti-Bunk Party’s Candidate for President
- Bastiat on “Cash for Clunkers”
- Will Cameras Save Us from the Police State?
- Make Summer Vacation Exciting and Enlightening!
- Onion News Network: U.S. Stages Fake Coup to End National Debt
- Bank of America Fined $33 Million: This Is Justice?
- Cash for Clunkers, Obamacare, and Sustainability
- I Worked for the Government Today without Pay
- The U. S. Should Emulate, Not Censure, Honduras
- Remake of The Prisoner to Air on AMC
- Obama’s Military Spies
- Government Policy Explains Why California Leaves Money on the Table
- Silverglate on Letting Torturers Off
- Silverglate on the Gates Arrest
- Cracking Down on Illegals
- Obama Cabinet Proposes Budget Cuts
- If Health Care Is a Right . . .
- Rationing a Shortage of Positivist Civil Rights
- “Trickle-Down Theology Won’t Work”
- Obamacare vs. Freedom
- The Obama War on Transparency Continues
- Liberals Play the Race Card to Perpetuate the State
- Why Do Conservatives Always Side With the Cops?
- When Will the Wars End?
- U.S. Health Care, Now and in the Future
- Most Investors, Economists, and Policy Makers Are Blind to the Mountain of Malinvestments
- Time for Government Budgets to Turn A New Leaf?
- Man-Bites-Dog Story: A Politician Speaks the Truth
- Inflation Ahead
- Crony Capitalism
- I Agree With Paul Krugman, but This Time Only!
- Let the Market Determine the Best Use of Oakland’s Waterfront
- Onion News Network on Compulsory Childhood Politics as Community Service
- The Bush-Obama Spying Regime
- Economists’ Pro-Fed Petition Discredits Its Signers
- Stephen Halbrook Testifies Against Sotomayor for Supreme Court
- Re: Blogosphere Star Provides Refreshingly Alternative Ideas
- Goldman Sachs, Best in the Business
- Blogosphere Star Provides Refreshingly Alternative Ideas
- Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam
- What’s All This About a “Wise Latina”?
- Al Gore is Right
- Democracy Is Dead: What’s So Funny about “Read the Bill”?
- Economics: The Art and Science of Not Killing People With Your Good Intentions
- Classical Liberalism and the Fight for Civil Rights
- More Stimulus: Insanity?
- Reforming Environmental Policy: Seminar for Homeschool Students
- William Marina R.I.P.
- Al Franken, Chickenhawk
- U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement: Good News and Bad News
- Why Frederick Douglass Still Matters
- The Black Maverick in His Office
- What Barack Obama Should Learn from FDR
- If Only Market Participants Knew What Was Good for Them
- Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account
- Confiscation of Bondholder Assets Dooms GM
- Should Fearmongers Be Held Liable for Damages?
- A Black (Republican) Maverick Meets Ike
- Spectator: We Need Another Arthur Seldon
- Budget Crunches Supply Golden Opportunities for Governmental Reform
- Jo Van Fleet Shrugs (Anti-Government Speech in Wild River)
- C.S. Lewis on the Evil and Corruption of Theocracy
- Dad Was Right
- Forgiveness and the State
- Health Care in Germany: One Observation (Maybe Two)
- One Man’s Hero Is Another Man’s Goat
- Arguably Ripping into the Federal Reserve from Within
- All Hail Caesar! Here and Abroad
- Obama’s New Theocracy
- The New Economy’s New Key Indicators: Lobbying, DC Luxury Hotel Occupancy Up
- Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government’s Financial Reforms
- The Bay of Pigs (Howard Jones)
- Principles and Politics: Like Oil and Water
- Challenge of Liberty Seminar Now Open to Single-Day Attendance
- Harper’s on Black Maverick
- Hard Liquor, Murray Rothbard, and You: Partners in Freedom
- National Review on Black Maverick
- Tax “Reform”, Terminator-Style
- Military-Contracting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse—Just What the Government Wants
- Two Views of the Labor Market in the Deepening Recession
- The National Debt versus the Deficit
- Are All Legislators Crooks?
- Sotomayor’s Disdain for Private Property
- Federal Reserve Cannot Account for $9 Trillion
- “Uncle Jay” on Obama’s New GM and Supreme Court Nominee
- Rearranging the Chairs on the Deck of the Titanic
- Security Theater in Three Airports: Istanbul, Paris, and Atlanta
- Our Major Surprise in Asia Minor
- You Go, Gordon Gekko!
- A Timely Economics Seminar for Homeschoolers
- Resistance, Assimilation and Honor: An Excerpt from C.S. Lewis
- Venezuelan Government Continues Intimidation Campaign
- Independent Institute Fellow Victim of Chavez’s Abuses
- Looking at California from Florida
- Obama’s Civil Liberties Betrayals Pile Up
- Senior Fellow Alvaro Vargas Llosa Harassed by Venezuelan Police State
- If They Don’t Believe in Tracking Performance, Why Give Grades?
- The Climate-Industrial Complex
- California Voters Reject Budget Monstrosity
- Save More and Live Better, Just Not at the Expense of Others
- Stop Bailing Out Government Schools
- “Uncle Jay” on Government Spending and Deficits
- Stephen Halbrook on Second Amendment Rights
- Obama’s FDA: Cheerios Are a “Drug” and Can’t Make Health Claims
- Tit for Tat in the Torture Investigations
- Judge Napolitano on Fox: Bush Is a Felon, Prosecute Him
- Onion News Network: 3rd Annual “Bring Your Daughter to War” Day
- The GOP Finds a New Wedge Issue
- Nancy Pelosi Lies Again: This Time About Knowing of Torture
- Was Harry Truman a War Criminal? Jon Stewart Says Yes, Then No
- The Bugaboo of Race: Does Skin Color Put Out Fires?
- I’m Speaking at San Jose State Tonight
- Stealing Land in Montgomery, Alabama
- Eco-Speak and “Green” Propaganda
- Jesus on Property Rights and Resource Preservation
- Anna Schwartz Indicts the Federal Reserve–Again
- Something is Rotten in Montgomery: Yesterday’s Eminent Domain Meeting
- Reagan DOJ vs. Bush DOJ on waterboarding
- Call Their Bluff
- NRO Blog on Eminent Domain Meeting in Montgomery Tomorrow: From Rosa Parks to Kelo
- Swine Flu Is the Health of the State
- Alex Tabarrok on the Coming Good Times
- A New Civil Rights Fight in Montgomery (Property Rights Abuse)
- A Torture State We Can Believe In
- Anti-Police Sentiment Grows in U.K.
- Obama Lied, People Died
- Obama Wants Your Guns
- Most Liberal U.S. Appeals Court Incorporates 2nd Amendment
- Diversity of Opinion at the University of Missouri
- Obama’s New “New Deal”: Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?
- Video of Dr. T.R.M. Howard (Civil Rights/Self Help Champion)
- Bummer Day for California Women Politicos
- Supreme Court Limits Car Searches
- Now Playing: The Independent Review in State of Play
- Economic Calculation in the Environmentalist Commonwealth
- Does Regulation Prevent Financial Fraud?
- Why Do Progressives Love Trains?
- The Unintended Consequences of Common Property: Nazi Rallies
- Externalities and Culture
- Hummel, Henderson, the Fed, and the Housing Bubble
- St. Augustine’s Analysis of Emperor Obama and the Somali Pirate
- Robert Higgs on Reason TV
- Onion News Network on “Green” Recall of All U.S. Currency
- The Myth of Fair or Easy Taxation
- I’d Like My Money Back
- An Encouraging Obstacle to Gun Control
- The Road Ahead Should Not Be Paved with Pork
- Will the U.S. Copy Zimbabwe?
- Are Governments Discovering the Price Mechanism?
- Only 53 Percent of Americans Prefer Capitalism
- Midnight in the Garden of My Hate Mail
- More on Obama’s Surveillance State
- Robert Higgs Spotlighted on C-SPAN’s “In Depth”
- Separation of Faith and State
- 57% of Americans Back Military Response to N. Korea
- Today, SNL or the Onion, Tomorrow . . . ?
- Obama’s Surveillance State Targets PCs, Laptops and Media Devices
- Ivan Eland Interviewed by Ron Paul on Recarving Rushmore
- Cong. Ron Paul to Interview Ivan Eland on C-SPAN
- Not Even Tobacco Is Safe
- Burt Blumert, RIP
- How CA Should Respond to Medical Marijuana Raid
- Obama’s War on Charity
- Those Pesky Tax Laws
- William Kristol: “All Hail Obama!”
- Obama Circumvents Another Promise
- Three Hours of Nothing But Higgs!
- Obama’s Sugar-Coated War on Terror
- Ted Rall on Obama’s Fake Change
- Government Is Furiously Dancing the Two-Step
- Black Maverick Reviewed in Reason
- Ayn Rand Symposium at NRO
- William Jess Higgs (March 21, 1909 – October 15, 1977)
- Stephen Halbrook on Fox News with Glenn Beck on Gun Control
- Thoughts on AIG
- Contest to Reward Outstanding Essays on Virtue, Freedom, and Civil Society
- R. Max Hartwell, 1921-2009
- One Man’s Compliance Cost Is Another Man’s Income
- Are Obama’s Poll Numbers Plummeting?
- Bill Steigerwald’s Farewell
- The Great Depression and College Life
- Confronting “Government Intelligence”?
- Hands Off My Body, Obama!
- Give Bernanke Credit—For Chutzpah
- The Obama Bear Market: “Never waste a good crisis”
- Reject the Proposed Statement of Historians Against the War
- Dennis Prager Interviews Robert Higgs
- Paul Harvey: A Stilled Voice of the “Old Right”
- Barack Obama and The Road to Serfdom
- Too Close for Comfort
- Miracles We Take For Granted
- Robert Higgs on War, Taxes and Economic Crises
- Stephen Halbrook with CNN’s Lou Dobbs on Gun Control
- It Would Be Cheaper to Fight World War II Again
- Notes on Marx
- When Is an Earmark Not an Earmark?
- People Respond to Incentives: Law Enforcement and No-Knock Raids
- Excellent Bob Higgs Interview
- The Waterloo of Keynesianism (Military and Domestic)
- The Government’s Cure for Alcoholism—Whiskey, More and More Whiskey
- Obama and Torture: “Chains We Can Believe In”
- As if a Forced Cable Transition Isn’t Silly Enough
- Court Puts 17 Detainees’ Freedom on Hold
- New Strategy in War on Terror? Don’t Hold Your Breath
- Alan Greenspan: Apologist for the Federal Reserve, Financial Bailouts and Bank Nationalizations
- C-SPAN2 Covers Recarving Rushmore on Presidents Day
- In Defense of the (Relatively) Great Warren G. Harding
- Obama Adopts Bush Position on Renditioning, State Secrets
- “Thank You,” Mr. Redford, for Gov’t-Subsidized Art
- Regime Uncertainty Exemplified in the Fannie/Freddie Debacle
- Economic Fascism Marches On
- NAACP 100th Anniversary: Exploiting Color Instead of Erasing It
- Higgs on FOX: Stimulus to Cost Each Family $10,000
- The Jobs Actually Being “Created”
- Rethinking California’s Prisons
- “Stimulus Package” Parallels
- Has “Historians Against the War” Become a Front for the Democratic Party?
- Are We All Socialists Now? Not at All
- The Politics of “Jobbery”: 1883-2009
- A Stable, United Iraq Is Hardly a Sure Thing
- Guantánamo and the Permanent Bureaucracy
- Continuity We Can Believe In
- Nancy Pelosi: “Every month 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”
- Craig Pirrong on Intertemporal Consumption
- Booker and Barack
- Bootlegger-and-Baptist Alert
- “Comparable Worth” Harms Women and Minorities
- Vaclav Klaus Blasts Al Gore’s Climate Alarmism
- These Projects Are Shovel-Ready, All Right
- A New Study of the Political Economy of the Great Depression and World War II
- Big Brother and U: Is Your University Reading Your Email?
- Haiku for Dear Leader’s Cadres
- C.S. Lewis on Tyranny “for the Good” of Its Victims
- A Caring State Is a Controlling State
- George W. Obama Speaks (“The Daily Show”)
- Not a Moment to Spare?
- Today’s Episode of “The Onion or Reality”
- Not to Worry
- More “Complicated” Data on Global Warming
- El Krug
- Obama and the War on Terror
- The California State Budget Disaster
- Fannie Mae’s First Chief Credit Officer Blames Government for Sub-Prime Meltdown
- Big “Duh,” No. 1
- Halbrook Testimony on C-SPAN on Nominee Eric Holder for Attorney General
- New Libertarian E-Journal
- Oh, Joyful, Joyful Coronation Day
- Another Inauguration of the Imperial Presidency
- Another Presidential Inaugural Speech
- Survey Finds Three of Ten Americans Are Clueless
- Another Erosion of the Fourth Amendment
- Halbrook to Testify in Hearings on Eric Holder for Attorney General
- FDR and Dirty Dancing: Porn-to-School Act (or, What I Learned While Studying the New Deal)
- CBO Report: U.S. Will Go to Hell in 2009
- Obama Vows: No Torture
- Police State Killing Caught on Tape
- Wall Street Journal Corroborates Independent Institute Study of Causes of Sub-Prime Meltdown
- A Horrible, Little-Known Legacy of the Great Depression
- “The New Deal Worked”: Why Do So Many People Accept that as Fact?
- This Guy Could Do Standup!
- Credentialism and Civil Rights in Higher Education
- My Open Letter to Daniel Gross at Newsweek (Historians and the Great Depression)
- Profiles in Privilege
- Another Victim of “Single-Payer Health Care”
- The Best Stimulus Right Now?
- Calvin and Hobbes on Bailout Subsidies
- Eartha Kitt RIP
- The Fed versus the Banks: Who Will Blink First?
- Most Absurd Statement Ever Made?
- Christmas and Liberty
- Fair Weather Friends of the Market
- Cry Wolf: A Political Fable
- Arnold Should Return to Hollywood
- President Bush’s Eulogy for Capitalism
- The Reckless Federal Reserve, Bernard Madoff and Elihu Root: Lessons for Today
- An Excellent Analysis of the Financial Debacle
- Robert Higgs Interviewed on the Great Depression and Financial Crises
- Mainstream Journalism, RIP
- Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect
- The Founders’ Second Amendment Hits #1 Law, #12 History, #26 Nonfiction at Amazon.com
- What Tradition of Public Service Is Obama Talking About?
- Will This Man Become the Car Czar?
- Second Amendment Book Bomb Launched on Bill of Rights Day, Dec. 15
- Deirdre N. McCloskey on the Bourgeois Virtues
- Americans United in Civic Ignorance, Politicians Worse
- Champions of Freedom: NAS and FIRE Meet in Washington, D.C.
- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
- Regime Uncertainty in 1937 and 2008
- Banking Act of 1935 + Fed’s Exercise of This Authority = New Deal Policy
- University loses harassment case: “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable”
- Black Maverick Now Being Advertised
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Government Lies—Or Do I Repeat Myself?
- NPR Bad for Blood Pressure
- It’s Who You Know
- Nonsense about Deflation
- Buck Higgs Closer to Becoming a Bank
- Need Health Care? Go to Mexico
- Free Marketeer Vaclav Klaus to Become President of European Union
- More Acclaim for Higgs: New York Times and Elsewhere
- GlobeAsia quotes Higgs on How Governments Cause Financial Crises
- To Get More of Something (e.g., Unemployment), Subsidize It
- Bailout Bingo (Unwinnable Version)
- The Green Tree has Red Roots: The Sustainability Scam on Campus
- Congressional Missed Tackles Cost Taxpayers the Game
- Adrian Rogers on Free Lunches
- Melancholy Days for Investors
- Onion News Network Satirizes the Bailouts
- World Leaders Meet, Pretend They Have a Clue
- Danny Kaye’s Musical Tribute to the Income Tax
- The TARP Is Dead, Long Live the TARP
- Government Encourages Greater Moral Hazard by Banks
- An Answer to Critics: “Krugman’s Prescription for Disaster”
- Stabilize This, Stabilize That
- Another Economist Gets the Larry Summers Treatment
- Making Laws Free
- As Crisis Deepens, Government Officials Are Speaking Gibberish
- What Creeps These Members of Congress Be
- Audacity
- Rahm Emanuel: Obama’s Hawkish Point Man
- Cloture Rules: How Obama May Bring One-Party Rule to America
- The (Il)logic of Collective Action: Lessons from the 2008 Election
- 1933 Redux?
- Michael Crichton, RIP
- Plants Have Rights Too!
- Keynes’s Moral Gold Standard? Ask John Cusack
- Riots after the Election?
- At Least Pro Wrestling Is Entertaining
- FDR Threatened to Impose Dictatorship
- As Government Officials Press Banks to Lend, What (if Anything) Are They Thinking?
- Mother, Should I Trust the Government? Division of Labour Voting Essay Contest
- Mr. Smith Comments on Washington
- Keynesian Revisionism
- Jimmy Durante’s Ode to Roosevelt and the National Recovery Administration
- Franklin Roosevelt Rerevisionism
- Gallup Finds No Increase in First-Time Voters
- Thoughts on the Financial Crisis
- Land of the Free, Home of the Brave, Adieu
- An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse
- Republicans Don’t Even Pretend Anymore
- Church Women Greatest Threat to Mugabe?
- Words of Hope from Henry Manne
- Nero at His Worst
- Paulson’s War Against Shame
- Blog Action Day: Poverty
- Another Way in Which Bush Is a Wilsonian
- Robert A. Taft and The Case Against NATO
- Krugman’s Bizarre Comparison
- Boohoo: The Mainstream Media Are Ignoring Me
- MY Credit Is Not Frozen (Nor Are Most Others’)
- The Stock Market Proved . . . Or Did It?
- “Saturday Night Live” Lampoons the Bailout
- U.S Imperial Forces Pay Homage to George Orwell, As It Were
- The Data Don’t Justify Financial-Market Panic
- Two Unspoken Assumptions in the Credit-Crisis Debate
- Metaphors Reveal the Economic Ignorance of Politicians and Journalists
- Bailout Will Only Worsen Federally Caused Crisis
- Much More Than A Bailout
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions…
- Two Tentative Cheers for Rightwing Talk Radio
- It’s Not a Bailout; It’s a Rescue!
- Stop the Billionaire Bailout
- Long live the RFC!
- Zimbabwe Faces Starvation
- Higgs: Why Did the Great Depression Last So Long?
- Good News for a Change. . . But the Unchained Fed Inflates Onward
- Richard Milhous McCain Debates John Fitzgerald Obama
- FEMA’s Expansion Threatens Charitable Competition
- Too Tasty to Fail
- Anti-New Deal Newsreel
- “Diversity” versus Freedom: The Tragic Case of Southern Illinois University
- Credit Is Flowing, Sky Is Not Falling, Don’t Panic
- Treasury Opens Vault; Gangs of Robbers Rush In
- And Now a $700 Billion Bailout
- Does Wall Street Have a Death Wish?
- Robert Conquest Quote of the Day
- Pro-Stalin Film: “Mission to Moscow”
- The Fed’s AIG Loan/Takeover: Another New Deal Legacy
- Thank Goodness for the Senate Commerce Committee!
- Technological Innovation Has NOT Increased the Cost of Health Care
- Nobelist in Peace Desmond Tutu on Advice for the Next U.S. President
- The Academic Gulag: Are You Politically Correct, Comrade Professor?
- So, the President May Kill Anybody He Pleases, Right?
- A Trip to Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart
- Debate on Terrorism at Texas A & M, Streamed Live Tonight (6:30 p.m. central)
- Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public Is Shocked
- Bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac in the “Ownership Society”
- But Who Do You Sue to Get Your Life Back?
- Economics of Police Brutality
- The Onion or Reality: Today’s Quiz
- Community Organizers and Politicians: Enemies of the Taxpayer
- Secret Service Harassment of Ron Paul Delegates at GOP Convention
- The Independent Institute at the Rally for the Republic
- De-socialization of Russian Farms
- A Smart Political Choice by McCain
- That Convention
- The Onion Understands Antitrust
- Why Did Cops Stop Covering Up Their Guns?
- Libertarian Paternalism
- School Choice: Really Free, Semi-Free, or Flee as Fast as You Can?
- Police to Track All Vehicles into New York City
- Robert Higgs on Antiwar Radio
- The Corporatization of the War
- Crunchy Credit
- Lenders Have Not Stopped Lending
- Guardian Angels for Oakland
- Why Are Interest Rates So Low?
- Incentives Matter: Blood Money
- Michael Phelps Said No to Ritalin
- The Seeds of Another Cold War?
- Must the Government Combat Americans’ Addiction to Foreign Bananas?
- A Query on Two Secessions: Kosovo and South Ossetia
- Gasoline as Money in Zimbabwe
- Olympic Games
- The Decline and Fall of Imprimis
- August 9, 1945, a Date that Will Live in Infamy
- News Flash: Washington Is Corrupt!
- Hurston and Paterson: Two Libertarians Against the Atomic Bomb
- Radical Reform Is Needed in California
- A Predecessor of George W. Bush’s Contempt for the Constitution
- Army Recruiters Lie to and Threaten Teenagers with Jail
- More Fun for Travelers
- $10 Billion to $1 in Zimbabwe
- Consumer “Protection”
- Attack Canada!
- New Edition of Hayek’s Early Works
- How “Urban Renewal” Destroyed San Francisco’s Fillmore District
- The Oil Pricing Squeeze Is On
- What Credit Crunch?
- Farewell to Offshore Tax Havens
- Forget Polls: Look at Prediction Markets on the Election
- $150 Billion for a Beer? Funding Oppression in Zimbabwe
- From 19 Men With Boxcutters. . .
- Notes on the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout
- Private Taxis in Cuba?
- Obama’s Janus-Faced Foreign Policy
- Neither Liberty Nor Safety
- Sir John M. Templeton: The Passing of a Visionary
- Obama’s Betrayal of the Fourth Amendment
- Röpke on the German Question
- The McCain/Obama Echo Chamber
- Limiting Access to the Political Order in North Carolina
- Vince Miller, RIP
- The Democrats Betray American Civil Liberties, Again
- Legalize All Drugs
- Food for Thought on Academia’s Costs and Benefits
- Affordable Health Insurance is ILLEGAL!
- New Article on Supreme Court Decision
- McCain Bursts a Blood Vessel Over “Obscene Profits”
- Good for the Liberal Supremes
- Conformity Continues in Frostbite Falls
- Debunking Truther Nonsense
- I got a letter from the IRS today
- The Very Definition of Uncivilized
- Why We Choose to Defend Liberty
- Subway Apologizes
- Federal Fingerprint Registry
- No Homeschoolers Need Apply (Subway)
- Audio of John Cusack Interview on “War, Inc.’
- Eminent Domain Abuse in Birmingham? (The Evergreen Baptist Church)
- Members of Congress May Commit Only Great Crimes
- California’s Fumigation and Quarantine Policy
- Prince Caspian, Natural Law and Just War Theory
- Eminent Domain Abuse in Birmingham? (The Evergreen Baptist Church)
- My Questions, Comments, and Concerns for the TSA
- The Price of a Meal in Zimbabwe
- In Defense of Rules
- The Barbaric Lowering of Recruitment Standards
- The Problem With Global Non-Warming
- The Congressman Is Shocked, I Tell You, Shocked
- Eminent Domain and Civil Rights in Alabama (Op-Ed)
- Civil Rights and Eminent Domain
- World War II and Global Warming, Again
- Not Laughing at McCain’s Gas Tax Holiday
- Fifteen Years After Waco
- Keynes on the Ravages of Inflation
- Gold Bugs versus Theft Bugs
- Gun Owners Are Happier
- Thomas Jefferson Fan Arrested for Dancing at His Memorial
- Antiwar Libertarians and Leftists at the Hawblog
- Conservatives for Printing More Money
- The French War on Thinness
- Militarized State and Local Police
- DHS’s Horrifying Deportation Policy
- Keynes versus Mises on gold as money
- And People Really Believe This?
- Comics Code Warriors
- Mississippi’s Pioneering Gun and Ammunition Control Law
- Mukasey’s Claim About the Afhgan Phonecall: Either a Fib, or Irrelevant
- The Formula for a Police State
- A Leftist Against the New Deal
- Health of the State, Sickness of the Economy
- Another Torture Memo Released
- Bush Backing Down on FISA?
- The Administration Insists the US Government Does Not Torture
- Truncating the Antecedents: Addendum on 9/11 and the Present Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Another Hidden Cost of Ethanol
- A Shia vs. Shia Civil War?
- Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
- Proposed Housing-Market Rescues
- Human Death Toll in Iraq
- California Stands Up (A Little) to Feds on Real ID
- War with Iran—Still in the Cards?
- Understanding the Depression
- Bush: The War Was Worth the Cost
- What Has Been Learned After 5 Years of War?
- A Theologian for Empire
- Ayn Rand and War: Natural Bedfellows?
- Public schools = public menace?
- United Nations Sanctions Hurt Civilians
- WFB: God, Man, and Liberty
- Proof that Terrorists Pose No Threat to This Country?
- Uncle Sam’s Fifty Brothers: The Power and Promise of State Constitutions
- Another Setback on Warrantless Surveillance
- The Power of Numbers: Simplify, Simplify!
- Glenn Greenwald on the Surveillance State
- The Chicago School of Antitrust
- The War on Fat: Mississippi Division
- Higgs on the Politics of Fear
- Words Matter: Rebate, Bonus, or Free Money?
- When did you stop beating your wife?
- Defending Open Immigration: A Reply to Hoppe
- Afghan Journalist Sentenced to Death for Internet Printout
- I Wish I’d Written That
- The Effects of Mass Deportation
- Local Opposition to the Central State’s Border Fence
- Rac(e)ing through Presidential Time
- Poor Bill
- Welcome!
- Merry Government Holiday!
- Remembering R.C. Hoiles: Civil Rights Pioneer
- Kwiatkowski Interviews Higgs
- Giving Thanks to the Market
- The Failure of Prisons
- Harold J. Berman (1918-2007)
- A Department of Justice on Steroids
- Waldfogel’s “Tyranny of the Market”
- Mark Steyn’s Arthur Godfrey Moment
- The Neocon Propaganda Is Working
- Eland’s Partition Plan Getting Major Traction
- Hurricane Haiku No. 3
- Hurricane Haiku No. 2
