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Businesspeople for Free Markets…
Alas, support for freedom of production and trade is far less common among the business community than some people think. The Mercurius Society is helping to bring together people involved…
Freedom Rightly Understood..Freiheit Wohl Verstanden
I received the printed version the other day of the German edition of my essay “Freedom Rightly Understood,” the address I gave before the 60th meeting of the Liberal International…
While Zimbabwe Is Dying
Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury Hong Kong hotel Kleptocracy in Action. Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she…
A Man One Wishes One Had Met
I had read about the murder of the courageous Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga, whose paper (according to BBC reporter Alastair Lawson) was closed down because it mockingly avoided censorship…
The Kind of Wealth that’s Almost Always Overlooked
It’s very (very) rare for non-events to be news. Usually, the only thing that is news is what happened, not what didn’t happen. Here’s an image of something that “happened”:…
The Futility and Horror of “Foreign Aid”
Hat Tip: John Welborn
Grow Up, EU…
Microsoft is accused by EU again The best and definitive slapdown of such absurdity was from Robert Levy.
A New Record
Zimbabwe rolls out Z$100,000,000,000,000 note And again, utterly idiotic commentary from the BBC: Other notes in trillion-dollar denominations of 10, 20 and 50 are also being released to help Zimbabweans…
Zimbabwe’s Heroes
BBC: “Zimbabwe: Rights activist is ‘threat to society’” Mukoko was seized early December 3 from her home in Norton, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Harare. She was missing…