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Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans

Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.

The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It

The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.

Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…

The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.

Taking It for Granted

"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...

Taliban is Still on the Western Dole

However, the Taliban is the group handing out NGO licenses in Afghanistan. If a Taliban sympathizer asks for an NGO license, they get it. So, many of these groups send money directly to the Taliban or to support the families of suicide bombers. Legend also said...

The Miracle of Mass Production

"The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier." —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action