Here we go again. Corporations are making money not by producing a product and marketing it, but by loading consumers with loans they cannot pay and t...

WASHINGTON—Overwhelmed by the frustration of being utterly unable to solve any of the numerous difficult problems it faces, a worn-out nation finall...

I’m going to use the longer posting capabilities (on here and Google+ which DOES NOT have RSS haha) to express my irritation about people removing R...

The more you behave, the more people trust you. The more certain it becomes that you will pay what you owe, the more people are going to extend you cr...

I am attempting to figure out just how deep in the hole Greek pension plans are. I have not had any luck finding plans or asset holdings but there are...

The barriers to entry for the legal industry exist simply to protect lawyers from competition.

Whether it's diamonds and water or hardbacks and e-books, the only cogent explanation for prices comes from the Austrians, not the classical economist...

Extreme secrecy, as usual, shrouds this act, but it underscores how often the U.S. uses violence around the world

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter ha...

The Texas lawmaker plans to lay out a blueprint for far-reaching reductions in federal spending.

First Seattle, then London, now the Big Apple -- Amazon's delivery lockers are starting to pop up all over. As we've explained before, the lockers...

The Supreme Court considered whether people arrested for traffic or other minor offenses can be strip-searched.

It seemed like a great idea -- build a treehouse on his property for two growing boys. But for one local man, it's turning into a big, expensive lesso...

Many demands are being made, but sadly, if these were ever implemented, they would make problems worse by lowering the standard of living for all —...

The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill yesterday that would make it a federal crime for U.S. residents to discuss or plan activities on foreign s...

To Occupy Wall Street: Wall Street couldn’t have done it alone. It takes a government and/or its central bank, the Federal Reserve System, to: Cre...

The top 1 percent of US income earners pay 38 percent of all federal income taxes, and the top 10 percent pay 70 percent.

We have to make a fundamental choice: we can either engage in the social division of labor and contribute to our own and society's overall prosperity,...

While "cash for clunkers" accelerated consumption in the month of August, it left a gap in demand following the program's demise.

Even the Chicago Tribune isn't very happy with Durbin on this one.Sen. Dick Durbin must be forgetting that once you've dug yourself into a deep hole,...

In The Wall Street Journal, former NFL quarterback Fran Tarkenton images how pro football would look if players who made it through three seasons coul...

Groupon, Living Social – bad for business? Interesting turn of events in 2011. What seemed to be the “next big thing,” the daily deals tsunami i...

I have been waiting for and expecting news headlines just like this one: Seton Hall will lower tuition rate by $21K to match Rutgers for some incoming...

The 55 mph speed limit was a vain attempt by the Federal government to reduce gasoline consumption; initially passed in the 1974 Emergency Highway Ene...

So the web is buzzing right now over news that scientists have detected some subatomic particles moving faster than the speed of light. Yeah, well, no...

President Obama has unveiled his so-called deficit reduction plan.  Besides spending cuts that aren’t really cuts, he has proposed ending the Bush-...

During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he reco...

(Ethan Miller/Getty Images) American icon Tony Bennett took to the airwaves at Sirius Radio to promote his new album, “Duets II,” but it’s what...

“When Erich Campbell passed two Florida Highway Patrol cruisers parked in the median near Tampa International Airport in December 2009, he flashed h...

Some pundits really don’t understand why libertarians dislike government and therefore want it to do little, if anything at all. Unable to grasp the...

Some remarkable news in the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Heres the buried lede: The number of current methamphetamine users decreas...

The president said he signed into law “the biggest middle-class tax cut in history.” It turns out his definition of biggest is rather strange.

As Irene ravaged other parts of the eastern seaboard, causing millions to be without power, the eatery of last resort, Waffle House, kept its doors op...

Antitrust action like this is wrong on moral, theoretical, and practical grounds.

With both an earthquake and a hurricane in the same week, it’s not just natural disaster season, it’s also economics disaster season. Both natura...

The federal government should get out of the business of picking technology and "green" winners. Government backing of alternate energy companies has...

Just about every major airline is experimenting with how to make boarding faster. American Airlines settled this summer on a random boarding order af...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The only thing worse than getting flooded out of your home once is getting flooded out of it twice. Or, for that matter, over and...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the annals of natural disasters, it doesn't get much worse than a major hurricane directly striking New York City and Long Isl...

It was in the early 1970s that I first learned of Lysander Spooner’s ideas. The six volumes of his Collected Works, which were published in 1971 and...

Politicians care about poor people. I know because they always say that. But then why do they make it so hard for the poor to escape poverty? Licensin...

The Greek bailout deal is under pressure ... and the Greek 2 year yield increased to 44% and the 10 year yield increased to 18% this morning. From th...

Ever since the news broke last week that Hugo Chávez wanted to transport 211 tons of physical gold from Europe to Caracas, I’ve been wondering how...

Starting with President Bush, and continuing into President Obama's term, the US government has paid out more than $11 trillion in stimulus money....

It is a rare occurence here when we publish an opinion from the Wall Street Journal, but the Journal’s Stephen Moore got everything right in this pi...

From David Kestenbaum at Planet Money:"You would never look at a map of the Hudson River (see above), point to the spot where the Tappan Zee Bridge is...

Just how much is a mobile patent worth? If it keeps your company from losing millions of dollars every quarter alone, quite a bit. Still, there is no...

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc's biggest deal ever, acquiring Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc for $12.5 billion, is an attempt to buy in...

For all the political bickering and scapegoating of China, 'Made in China' ranks only 2.7% of U.S. spending Convinced that everything you buy these da...

It's no wonder economics confuses people, but it needn't be so intimidating.

As Londoners continue to pick up the rubble and carnage from this week's riots, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is exploring new ways to maintain...

Inquiring minds are reading as short but accurate message from Urs Paul Engeler on the Failure of KeynesianismThe current economic crisis shows that t...

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man The price of a Big Mac is now $17.19 in Zurich Just a quick thought on a ridiculously volatile day: One of t...

Private organizations can set their own policies and allow customers to decide for themselves whether they want the service on those terms. But someth...

Government logo fail of the day

Great Britain and other parts of the world are experiencing unrest at a time of global economic uncertainty and stock market volatility. Here's a look...

In an extreme example of the frustration felt by many bankers as regulators toughen their oversight, Main Street Bank of Kingwood, Texas, plans to sur...

WASHINGTON—Disappointed with the way the nation has been managing its money, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday it had begun requiring citi...

The bear market is back says Australian economist Steve Keen. I agree. Moreover, the recent action, including the rally, offers sufficient evidence. T...

With all that unpleasantness over in London, how are Britons forgetting their troubles? According to the Movers and Shakers chart for the Sports Leis...

Is there any kind of stimulus the US did not try in the last 10 years? We had 1% interest rates from Greenspan fueling housing.We had wars from Bush...

Welcome to the homepage of popular sports streaming and p2p site Rojadirecta.com. Why all the birdy logos and harsh words about going to prison? We...

I’ve been railing against software patents for a number of years. I believe software patents are an invalid construct – software shouldn’t be...

If we could find a browser Mapnificient worked in without problems we'd probably call it the greatest thing to happen to Google Maps since turn-by-...

I have worked in the tech sector for over two decades. Microsoft and Apple have always been at each other’s throats, so when they get into bed toge...

The US healthcare system is a complex leviathan of interdependent cartels rather than a free market.

Recent regulations by the FDA have retarded innovation in the drug industry and caused harm to the health of the nation.

Government-sponsored monopolies should be abolished where they seem to be most integral to our society.

SEWARD, NE—Claiming he wasnt afraid to let everyone in attendance know about the real mess were in, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke reportedly...

In an update to my post earlier today and as expected, but sooner than expected (less than a day) Central Falls Collective Bargaining Contracts Voided...

Forbes Magazine reports New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming AlarmismNASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's...

Why do the media and politicians persist in saying the U.S. government has never defaulted on its “obligations” before? It most certainly has. Mar...

That seems to me the only way that he can faithfully execute all the laws. Otherwise, he has to break some--or have the Treasury Secretary violate his...

As the chances of a gaseous Congressional compromise to do nothing about deficit reduction grow larger, inquiring minds wonder just what might happen...

There are several sites designed to help you find the perfect hotel. The Hotel Finder experiment fr...

The country's political leaders refuse to exploit the tragedy to create a Surveillance State and secrecy regime

Here’s a guest post by Justin Griffith.  Justin is well known for his fight against the idea that “there are no Atheists in Foxholes”.  He was...

Ames, Iowa (CNN) -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has fresh bragging rights after picking up what is surely a coveted endorsement on Mond...

The City Council of Gould, Ark., adopted an ordinance making it illegal to form any kind of group without its permission.

That unappealing smell could be the stench of jealousy, after a man uses the law to his advantage and snags a $300,000 house in Te...

The next emergency EU summit is scheduled for this coming Thursday. Wolfgang Münchau is very concerned, from the Financial Times: Plan D stands fo...

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Science can do some wonderful, heartstring-tugging things. Take this for example: surgeons have triumphantly performed the first ever synthetic org...

Bill Gross / Google+: I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history.  —  Okay, thats a bold...

Turns out Eric Schmidt is not alone in his vehement opposition to the PROTECT IP Act, and the resistance is hardly partisan. A group of over 100 la...

The end of June marked what is hopefully the end of the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing. For months the Fed has purchased hundreds of...

In response to EU Calls Emergency Meeting on Italy; Don't Worry "It's a Coordination, Not a Crisis"; Short Sellers Blamed; Junckeritis Spreads I recei...

For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Dr...

by Chris Bodenner Theyre winning: Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugals decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat ad...

Written by contributor Sarah Small of SmallWorld at Home Ask a homeschooled kid the innocuous “What grade are you in?” and you’ll often get a f...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,...

Somalia is experiencing progress according to several criteria, despite (or, some would say, because of) its lack of a strong central government. As a...

If people realized how much we were wasting in stupid wars that should never have been fought, there might be far more protests.Please consider Among...