The Iraq War is largely about oil.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Whatever you tax you get less of.

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.