The following attempts to explain the most important idea in the history of social analysis. The notion (actually, it’s a description of reality that is all around us but rarely noticed) has been around for centuries. It was first observed by ancients…
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Cooperation: How a Free Market Benefits Everyone
Does Haditha Sound Familiar?
There is a curiously triumphant story line emerging in the neocon blogosphere regarding the Haditha killings. It is curious because their story line begins by implying that the unarmed Iraqi men, women and children who died in the Haditha incident were not killed in cold blood, and that their killers were innocent because military Court [...]
A Totally Lawless Regime by Paul Craig Roberts
Think about it: what regime is more lawless than the Bush Regime? The only answer I can come up with is the Zimbabwe regime of Robert Mugabe. Voted out of power in the last election, the great man hasn’t left. Zimbabweans are going to have to vote again, and the great man has said that [...]
On Gay Marriage
Very good article about gay marriage. This guy is spot on, people should just mind there on business.
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The Age-Discrimination Question
Here is what the free market permits. Employers can hire or fire for any reason they want. Employers can be biased, bigoted, or have poor judgment, but it is the employers’ judgment to make. The same is true of employees. They can quit for any reason, including one that discriminates against some trait of [...]
The Government Wrecks the Economy
What is the right response to a recession? The first rule must be to do no harm. When it comes to government, that is asking a lot and enough. Beyond that, in an ideal world, we would shut down the Fed, reduce the cost of employment, reduce taxes, zap environmental controls on exploring for and [...]
Mises Circle Forming In Houston
Likely a great place to discuss free market economics in the Houston area.
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Machiavelli Was Right: An Armed Society is a Free Society
Niccolò Machiavelli, who was a sort of Karl Rove of his day, though with more integrity, said of the Swiss that they were “the most free and most armed people” of Europe. Get it? The connection between arms and freedom?
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Oil prices: structural rise, or speculative bubble?
Economist Frank Shostak asks whether oil is the new housing bubble…
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