Written by George Reisman, Ph.D

Runaway government spending is among the most important economic problems of our time. It is absolutely urgent that it be brought under control and progressively reduced until it is sufficient to provide for no more than the essential government functions of defense and justice. Only then will the ... Read more: “Tax Expenditures”: Not Taxing Is Allegedly Spending
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Written by Mark Hendrickson

How many times have you heard President Obama express concern for the middle class? More than you can count, I’m sure. If you are in the middle class, Obama’s frequent mentions of you should make you very worried. A key part of Obama’s modus operandi is his habitual use of verbal ... Read more: The Marxist Roots of Obama’s War on the Middle Class
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Written by Anthony Wile

A book review in the Wall Street Journal by associate professor of economics at San Jose State University Jeffrey Hummel entitled "The New Central Planning" tends to confirm the perspective that the Federal Reserve is under continued attack. The upshot may be a new monetary ...
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Written by Walter Block

Murray N. Rothbard used to say that it is impossible to convince the economically illiterate with reductios ad absurdum. Why? This is because the very purpose of this type of logical argument is to embarrass our friends on the Left (and the Right too, sad to say, see below) by taking up the ...
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Written by Murray N. Rothbard

[This article is featured in chapter 79 of Making Economic Sense by Murray Rothbard and originally appeared in the September, 1985 edition of The Free Market]
It was a scene familiar to any nostalgia buff: all-night lines waiting for the banks (first in Ohio, then in Maryland) to open; pompous but ...
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Written by Alec Gimurtu

Jordan Roy-Byrne, editor and publisher of TheDailyGold Premium, was able to achieve some marked success in last year's choppy market by buying growth-oriented producers. After the broader market tops out, Roy-Byrne is watching for the same stocks to outperform again. In this Gold Reportinterview, ... Read more: Market Technician Jordan Roy-Byrne's Charts Predict Precious Metals Will Outperform
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Written by Brian Sylveste
Don Mosher, a business consultant with B&D Capital in Vancouver, is sounding the alarm. The TSX Venture Exchange, a once-thriving exchange for junior mining companies, is struggling. Its strife is a symptom of the overregulation that is slowly killing a whole sector of the Canadian economy, ... Read more: Don Mosher: Strangulation by Regulation - Is the Venture Exchange on Its Deathbed?
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Written by American Dream

Is there anyone better at wasting money then the U.S. government? Despite the sequester and all of the talk about “deep cutbacks”, the federal government continues to waste money in some of the most outrageous ways imaginable.
For example, does the U.S. government really have to spend ... Read more: 60 Completely Outrageous Ways The U.S. Government Is Wasting Money
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

Time and time again, the liberal defenders of government power have attacked any call for reform as a plot by the wealthy. Even now New York Times editorialists pound their keys about the "Concentration of Wealth", invoking presidents from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt. But in our America, ...
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