Germany's problem, in part, is that it went into the euro at the wrong exchange rate that overvalued the deutsche mark.

All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.