Inaugural Hopes, Promises, and Red Ink
I’m in DC, so it’s a bit hard to escape the throngs of people here for the inauguration. What’s remarkable is that everyone seems so, well…friendly and nice. No exultant…
Economic Insights
Hyperinflation Tourism
From my friend Rejoice Ngwenya in Zimbabwe: Greetings, my friends! What is it like to live [and hopefully NOT die!] in an economy whose currency denominations are calibrated in trillions?…
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…
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…
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…
Frontiers of Interventionist Public Policy
Porn industry seeks federal bailout Makes as much sense as bailing out the automobile industry: “With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest…