For the Financially Inclined
A friend has forwarded a presentation from Patrick Byrne, the Founder and CEO of Overstock.com (and of the rather cool Worldstock.com), on allegations of shenanigans in the way that stocks…
Economic Insights
Dare We Hope?
The European Union has offered to end farm export subsidies by 2013 – a major obstacle to talks in Hong Kong on a new global trade agreement. I mentioned in…
GLOBALIZAREA ESTE MINUNATÃ?Â??’!!!: Globalization is Grrrreat!
Thanks to the good offices of Iulia Borca, whom I first met at an IES-Europe seminar at the Theodor Heuss Akademie in Gummersbach, one of my essays on globalization (“Globalization…
GLOBALIZAREA ESTE MINUNATÃ?Â??’!!!: Globalization is Grrrreat!
Thanks to the good offices of Iulia Borca, whom I first met at an IES-Europe seminar at the Theodor Heuss Akademie in Gummersbach, one of my essays on globalization (“Globalization…
Freeing Prices to Tell the Truth
Diagramming the Effects of Price Controls on Supply and Demand I was interviewed today by one of Kurdistan’s leading papers. The topic was economic policy for prosperity. I presented to…
Middle Eastern Liberty
I was in Oman for the Economic Freedom of the World Network meeting, which inaugurated the Economic Freedom of the Arab World, a new study that rates 16 of the…
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
I’ve just gotten a new book to which I’ve been looking forward: The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, by Benjamin M. Friedman. I hope to get through it in the…
Arthur Seldon, R.IP.
Arthur Seldon, upon being awarded an honorary doctorate in 1999 Everyone interested in economic rationality, not to mention the liberty of the individual, should mourn the passing of a great…
Nothing Like a Little Perspective
Reading about the many hundreds dead in Mexico and Central America (especially Guatemala) from Hurricane Stan and about the tens of thousands dead in Pakistan and India from their earthquake…