Interventionism

How government-backed hysterias endanger the prices of stocks. (Speech by Tom DiLorenzo)

Why the US goes to war for Kosovars but tells the East Timorese to go jump in the Pacific.

The Fed has pumped up the stock market, setting in motion certain inevitable consequences. (George Reisman provides an Austrian perspective)
 

An examination of the premises in books by Stephanopoulos, Reich, and Morris, by Don Mathews.

Private subways-even though highly regulated, even though the fare was held to a nickel by government decree--fueled the expansion of the city. As lines were extended, neighborhoods and shopping centers grew around the stations. But by 1940, through rigorous regulation and through Communist labor unions that sabotaged private ownership, the subways were taken over by the city.

When Janet Yellen, Clinton's chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, resigned her post, she said it was for purely personal reasons. But according to inside reports, the personal reasons included frustration at having to lie day-in and day-out. No matter what the economic data of the week, she was expected to give it a spin that would boost the president and smear his enemies.

Florida has enacted a school voucher program that increases the role of government in education. (Article by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

According to the hoopla, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was created in 1995 as an instrument of global free trade. Instead, it is proving to be a vehicle for corruption, economic reprisals, and politicization of trade.

The troubling relationship between the SEC and the securities industry (by Gregory Bresiger).

Why cutting prices should be legal.