My letter to the NY Times re: Please, make me unemployed!
Re: In test for unions and politicians, a nationwide protest on pay Dear Sirs: I find it incredible that anyone, especially the vaunted New York Times, would treat with respect the fallacious concept...
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When Not Getting What You Pay for is Preferred
In his book Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo, libertarian writer Jeffrey Tucker sagaciously noted that we Americans “really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank...
View ArticleCritiquing a Monetary Reform for Iceland
The Prime Minister of Iceland recently commissioned a report by Frosti Sigurjonsson (henceforth referred to as “Mr. S”) to recommend a better money and banking system for Iceland. (I’m sorry, but isn’t...
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Baltimore, D.C., and Panem All in One
The teen fiction series The Hunger Games is a hit in the United States, and it’s not hard to see why. The books, and spin-off movies, share an anti-authoritarian message combined with a complicated...
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The Curse of the Withholding Tax
Reprinted from Mises.org Did you have to write out a check to the IRS for $5,581 this past April 15? If you had to do such a thing next year, would you think of it as your civic duty or would you...
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“Surviving Or Thriving”– What Canada’s 40% Surge In Meat Prices Means For...
Reprinted from Zerohedge: On the surface, Canada’s 1.2% inflation is negligible, and barely enough to keep up with the pace of overall growth as mandated by a few central bank academics. It is below...
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The War on Cash Destroys a Small Entrepreneur
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Lyndon McClellan is a small entrepreneur who owns and operates L & M Convenience Mart in Fairmont, North Carolina. L & M comprises a gas station, convenience...
View ArticleMy letter to the NY Times re: Why laid off American workers can’t find jobs
Re: The Perils of Globalization Dear Sirs: I believe that Binyamin Appelbaum may have unwittingly answered his own question about why American workers who lose their jobs–as illustrated by the former...
View ArticleMy letter to the Financial Times, London re: Do bank regulations actually work?
Re: Banks face pushback over surging compliance and regulatory costs Re: ECB warns of risks posed by shadow banking sector Dear Sirs: Nowhere in your excellent article about shareholder concern over...
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The Man Behind the Hong Kong Miracle
Reprinted from the Freeman Three cheers for Hong Kong, that tiny chunk of Southeast Asian rock. For the twentieth consecutive year, the Index of Economic Freedom—compiled by The Wall Street Journal and...
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The Righteous Bosses of the New Deal
[The Roosevelt Myth (1948)] Reprinted from Mises.org There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal. From the beginning to the end it was...
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“Paid Family Leave” Is a Great Way to Hurt Women
Reprinted from the Freeman In an article in the New Republic, Lauren Sandler argues that it’s about time the United States join the ranks of all other industrialized nations and provide legally...
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In Defense of Private Property: Mises and Aristotle
Reprinted from the Freeman I’ve just reacquainted myself with two seminal texts: Aristotle’s Politics and Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism. Though written nearly two and a half millennia apart, it’s...
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The Principles of Liberalism in 17th-Century England
[Conceived in Liberty (1975)] Reprinted from Mises.org At the beginning of the 17th century, virtually all of England’s export trade consisted of unfinished woolen cloths, which were sent to the...
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Millions in Brazil Follow a Teen Leader to Freedom
Reprinted from the Freeman “I like a little rebellion now and then,” Thomas Jefferson famously wrote. The primary author of the Declaration of Independence and America’s third president regarded...
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The Dutch West India Company
[This article is excerpted from Conceived in Liberty. Reprinted from Mises.org] The Dutch West India Company began operations in 1623, and in the same year the first party of permanent Dutch settlers...
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What Bastiat Had to Say about Police Abuse
[Reprinted from the Freeman] When it comes to being employed by the government, membership has its privileges. How far do these privileges extend? It’s a question that is central to political...
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UberPop: une “Pétition des fabricants de chandelles” version 2015
Avec tout le saccage que les conducteurs de Taxi furieux contre Uber Pop ont causé aujourd’hui à Paris. Rien ne vaut la célèbre satire du protectionnisme de Frédéric Bastiat pour nous remémoré...
View ArticleMy Advice for Greece
Leave both the European Union (EU) and the European Monetary Union (EMU). These are very flawed institutions. In his prescient book Tragedy of the Euro, Professor Philip Bagus uses the term...
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The Parenthood Market
Reprinted from the Freeman Economist Abigail Hall is under fire for her defense of selling babies. A research fellow with the Independent Institute, Hall makes a case for deregulating the adoption...
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