Prices

Most everyone assumes that capital exploits labor, writes Vlad Menshikov. But this point of view is completely wrong. 

Price stability is a misleading and an inherently contradictory concept. When such a construct as the price index becomes the guiding post for central banks, they will tend to produce and reinforce the very instabilities they proclaim to fight.

Well meaning or not, the boycott of Taco Bell by misguided activists, in the name of helping labor, is deeply ignorant and very destructive, writes Daniel D'Amico. 

Charles Tomlinson remembers when the environmental movement screamed that the world as we knew it was destined to doom because of the nasty chip mills, the clear cut destruction of the forests, and the pollution of our waters caused by tree cutting.

Dale Steinreich's June article about the centenary of the founding of the American Medical Association caused a tremendous uproar. Here is his answer to critics.

Market prices for water? Would that mean the end of some farms in California and elsewhere in the West? Yes, says William Anderson, that is exactly what that means. The government has engaged in egregiously wasteful policies in order to politically distribute water.

It is entirely within coffee-bean buyers' rights to pay any price, including an inflated price, writes Joesph Potts.

With gas prices soaring, an old fallacy has been renewed, writes William Anderson.

It is time for the energy alarmists to have their moment in the sun, writes Mark Brandly.

We have heard all the claims 10,000 times, and here William Anderson deals with the main ones.