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The amazing thing is that even after we've fallen, we'd still get in line to do it again.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into th...

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like, ...

The US shale revolution is a reminder of the deep pools of ingenuity, risk taking, and entrepreneurship in America By Mark J. Perry   ...

The Market integrates all the factors affecting human action into a systematic whole by Jeffrey M. Herbener The wellspring of all econ...

A Swedish Lesson  By Anders Åslund T o Brits, Sweden with its tightly regulated social welfare state is often a byword for socialism...

Boy Gets Prosthetic Hand Made by 3-D Printer (Cost $5 vs. $30K Medical Device) by Mike "Mish" Shedlock What do you do when ...

Made on Earth by DON BOUDREAUX The above nearly speaks for itself .  Many U.S. imports are indeed inputs used to make manufactured g...

A combination of passion and perseverance By John Chisholm Can theoretical, scientific study of complex systems inform the hardscrabb...

Extracting the Mediterranean Sea’s water could provide Israel with an unquenchable supply of clean water Water from the Mediterranean S...

Imagine a machine that could disassemble old unwanted objects, and use the materials to print new objects — all in the comfort of your own...

"Why Europe?  Because Europe enjoyed a relative lack of political constraint." By ralph raico Among writers on economic d...

Reading Thucydides or Dante for the comfort that we are not alone By Victor Davis Hanson We all know the usual reasons why we are pr...

The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero by CHUCK GRIMMETT Over at  Medium , tech pioneer  Kevin Ash...

Singapore leads in the development of 'vegetable factories' By Kalinga Seneviratne  With a population of five million crammed ...

Additive manufacturing By The Economist CONFIRMATION as to how seriously some companies are taking additive manufacturing, popularly...

How Sub-Saharan Africa Is Evolving Into A Global Economic Powerhouse Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has accelerated since 2000. And the pote...

Giving thanks for the invisible hand, and productivity of the free market, and no turkey czar by Mark J. Perry Like in previous years, m...

From the poor in the developing world, to the poor everywhere Suneet Tuli, CEO of Datawind, holds up the commercial version of his compan...