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Who is Minding the Store? “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. “                               ...

"ECB Will be Insolvent and Costs May Exceed 1 Trillion Euros, in case of Greek exit" Says IIF Director By MIKE SHEDLOCK Accor...

Νo planner is smarter than nature "The theory of output as a whole, which is what The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Mo...

Germany Looks to Its Own Costly Reunification in Resisting Stimulus for Greece By   NICHOLAS KULISH MUNICH — When  Germany  wants to u...

The ultimate in 'extend and pretend' schemes Greece's biggest banks, their decline in market cap and the loss of deposits sin...

Spending four years of your life starting off in the world of work rather than going into debt By   Robert Tracinski With the less-...

The  tragedy of the commons By  Jonathan H. Adler Fisheries continue to be among the best examples of the  tragedy of the commons  in ...

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A True Epidemic By WALTER E. WILLIAMS Each year, roughly 7,000 blacks are murdered. Ninety-four percent of the time, the murderer is an...

Looking into Corruption By George Handlery It is elementary, that when you write about a term you should give its definition. In the ca...

The collective memory loss By Richard Rahn Denial is leading to collective economic suicide in Europe and the United States. The Frenc...

Can there be a fiscal without a political union? By Clive Crook The arc of  Europe ’s postwar history is turning toward tragedy. It is...

Another  cycle of government dependency and poverty By PAUL SPERRY If Steve Jobs were a child today, his school no doubt would drag hi...

Frightened and bored at the same time By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD The European monetary crisis is like a botched root canal: painful, expen...

Neither the long- or short-term futures look terribly bright by FRANCIS FUKUYAMA The Greek election on Sunday was a predictable disast...

“Money is what the government says it is.” By Detlev Schlichter One with a liberal view might ask: Is it really true that we have too...

A socialist experiment gone terribly wrong By Chris Christoff Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than ...

How do you get and maintain lifelong learning? By Tina Sieber The idea that you are never done learning has never been more true than ...

The Dependency Of Welfare by James Miller In the Garden of Eden there is no scarcity.  Food, clothing, and shelter are in abundance.  R...

A Ravening Justice By Mark Steyn To get the obvious out of the way: I loathe John Edwards. I loathe him as a slick ambulance-chasing tr...