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Give Peace a Chance?

The New York Times recently released a video about a group of Jewish and Arab teenagers in Jerusalem who have…

Bailout Crack

In a knee-jerk reaction to panic and fear over the current financial crisis, the government issued a $700 billion dollar…

Could I Get a Hand?

I looked up at the bicycle box, a little perturbed. It sat high above my head on a shelf that…

What Laissez-Faire?

In response to the economic crisis now spilling over into the European markets, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an…

Kohl Mobile: LOL

Did you know that the price of text messaging has increased by an astonishing 100 percent over the last three…

American Apathy Towards “the New Normal”

Seven years ago, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and President Bush's subsequent declaration of war on…

If Only All The Goldman Partners Thought This Way

Over at the Huffington Post, former Goldman Sachs partner Greg Zehner writes that Ayn Rand foresaw the economic crisis the…

Blank-and-Effect: The Economics of Pragmatism

In the latest of a series of new government interventions into the economy, President Bush announced a new plan to…

A Stroke of Good Luck

Free countries, when faced with the incapacitation or even death of a leader, do not fold like a house of…

The Environmentalist Attack on Outdoorsmanship

This past summer, The Economist published an article ("Out of the Wilderness") pointing to a decade long trend of declining…