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A Gallup survey taken in March this year found only 46% of Americans expressed support for Israel (the lowest level in 25 years of...
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Tom Paine is one of the forgotten names of the American Revolution, but it can be argued that no other man was as important...
While this page has covered rail boondoggles in California and elsewhere, we also look at Seattle, which looked at building a monorail system, but...
Elon Musk has found out the hard way that one can ferret out hundreds of billions of dollars that Congress wastes, but fail in...
A Gallup survey taken in March this year found only 46% of Americans expressed support for Israel (the lowest level in 25 years of...
These subsidies exemplify crony capitalism. The Austrian School of economics defines any subsidy as government intervention in the functioning of the economy.
William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, particularly the central bank, would manipulate the...
Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what politicians want us to...
Mark Thornton digs into the gold-silver ratio—its wild swings, its history, and what it might mean for investors and the world at large.
The late P.T. Bauer provided much insight into the issue of the so-called First World sending aid to Third World nations in the name...
The blackout in Spain was not caused by a cyberattack but by the worst possible attack—that of politicians against their own citizens.
The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but much lesser known is...
This week on Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews The Price of Our Values by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar. While the authors claim...
Edwin S. Corwin in The President: Office and Powers, 1878-1957 has argued that the Constitution is a tussle for control between the executive and...