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Quote of the Day Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money, only for wanting to keep your own money ...

Democracy, Fascism and Private Definitions George Orwell noticed that political writing tended to be vague and wrote   Politics and th...

Benjamin Constant, The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns (1819) Gentlemen, I wish to submit for your attention a few ...

The  new “fatal” conceit By  Václav Klaus We all have our heroes, and Hayek was, for me, one of the greatest ones. It all started in ...

Quote of the Week If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. . . . In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they ha...

A reflection that is at once comforting and depressing By Theodore dalrymple It astonishes me how many people take insult for refutat...

That’s not the way capitalism is supposed to work You are not supposed to take money away from the competent people and give it to the ...

From  The Indispensable Milton Friedman   … is from pages 250-251 of the collection of previously unpublished essays by Milton Friedm...

Dedicated to Tyrants of all persuasions By David Henderson "The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his ow...

Incredible confusions Part 1: ‘Positive Money’ and the fallacy of the need for a state money producer I am usually inclined to encoura...

As Country Club Republicans Link Up With The Democratic Ruling Class, Millions Of Voters Are Orphaned By Angelo Codevilla On January 1...

The man who saved Poland's economy, on America's mistakes and the better way to heal from a financial crisis By  MATTHEW KAMINS...

Association and sympathy vs reasoning and examination by Mark Twain Fifty years ago, when I was a boy of fifteen and helping to inhabi...

Majority Rule vs Rule of Law "Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair o...

Kidney Failure   “So  Alvin Roth  wins the  Nobel Prize  for, among other things,  figuring out the best way to allocate kidneys  sub...

The Road to Utopia 'It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a fa...

The Essential Problems of Human Existence     This article is excerpted from chapter 39 of Human Action by Ludwig von Mises 1. Scie...

In Western democracies today, the study of economics is practically outlawed This article is excerpted from Human Action, chapter 38, ...

Risk and Uncertainty By John Mauldin "To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying an...

 Assorted Thoughts “Government interference into economic affairs almost never alleviates the problem it set out to solve. The unintende...