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This Time Magazine Europe article on the WTO mentions my article for the Mises Institute, but it is slightly misleading: we don’t want the WTO to be more effective; we would like to see it abolished and replaced with real free

While this may seem like a no-brainer to many, some individuals (i.e. regulators and various economists) suggest that because perfect information does not exist for all market participants, the market must be regulated . The reality of the situation seems to contradict this paternalistic urge and several entrepreneurs have specialized (exploited,

With the anniversary of the WTO protest, the protesters once again descended on the city of Seattle. Like a troop of primates, they hooted, threw rocks and bottles of gasoline, even pelleted a police officer’s eye out. Those who weren’t dragged off, left, knuckles still trailing the pavement, and the debate not much more elevated. The WTO must, of

What do the activists mean when they contend that the intellectual property regime overseen by the World Trade Organization is disadvantaging underdeveloped nations? Is a change of geography and demographics enough to turn ostensibly legitimate property rights into coercive tools? This seems unlikely—unless, of course, the rights in question are

I have no reason to celebrate the transfer of more than one hundred Canadian newspapers, including half-ownership of the National Post , from Conrad Black’s Hollinger Inc. to Izzy Asper’s CanWest Global Communications Corp. Shortly after the CanWest media acquisition flurry, I was fired by the new owner of the Vancouver-based North Shore News ,

In a much-missed series of columns for the Ludwig von Mises Institute , Professor Walter Block mused about the hijacking of honest English words by “the forces of socialism, statism . . . and political correctness,” rendering them unfit for use by those outside this camp. Third-Way leaders in particular, like Gerhard Schroeder, Tony Blair, and

Despite a din of protests from The New York Times and The Washington Post , the Bush administration refused to support an attempt by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to clamp down on tax havens. Fronting for about thirty high-tax governments, the Paris-based organization has been leaning on jurisdictions like the

Bayer AG, the German pharmaceutical giant and manufacturer of the anthrax-fighting drug Cipro, is experiencing a windfall . The sudden demand for Cipro could not have come at a better time for a company that had been in a slump and was hemorrhaging due to a considerable operating-profit shortfall. The financial press’s accounts of how Bayer was

Now that it is being rededicated as part of the war on terrorism, the hapless war on drugs will claim even more liberties and lives than it already has. While omnibus anti-terrorism bills were being rammed past pliant populations in the U.S., Canada, and Britain, Tony Blair got on the drug tack by ominously pointing out that the avails from drugs

Mainstream media seldom fail to shed darkness on whatever topic they tackle. Since the arrest of former ImClone CEO Dr. Samuel Waksal for prematurely ridding himself of his soon-to-tumble ImClone stock, the media have not deviated from this mandate. Point-men like Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post , the wild-eyed James Cramer, and Chris Matthews