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You have to read this fascinating piece on Zimbabwe in the NYT : “How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe? Well, consider this: at a supermarket near the center of this tatterdemalion capital, toilet paper costs $417. No, not per roll. Four hundred seventeen Zimbabwean dollars is the value of a single two-ply sheet. A roll costs $145,750 — in American

John Dvorak of PC Magazine makes a very compelling case that Internet Explorer is Microsoft’s biggest ever entrepreneurial blunder. “If the problem is not weird legal cases against the company, then it’s the incredible losses in productivity at the company from the never-ending battle against spyware, viruses, and other security problems. All the

I suspected as much! What the lady at Home Depot called the “sprinkler repair cult” is an emerging guild seeking privileges and regulations from the government. That means a supply restriction, high prices, or another do-it-yourself project. But there is a way around it. I first began to smell a rat when the automatic irrigation system on my front

A British high school student seems to be writing other “Harry Potter” books, including one with 90 chapters (”Meetings in the Tower”) that has become an underground classic. It seems to be formatted as a “quiz,” possibly to avoid copyright trouble (but others have put it into .doc and sent it around). HP-starved teens just can’t wait for the real

Here is George Reisman’s Blog reviewing Ayn Rand Answers, The Best of Her Q&A , Edited by Robert Mayhew, New American Library, 2005. x + 241 pp., a book about which I know nothing, but the review might be a landmark in what the phrase “blistering criticism” means. The post gets hotter and hotter as it moves

Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from the centralist libertarians, who mistakenly believe that a distant government that is not friend of liberty should be empowered to defend liberty and property rights. The case concerns an unmarried

I’m sitting here in the sweltering heat, wondering why the air conditioner at the Mises Institute is not being fixed after a full week of waiting. I again called the company that services them. He reports that all air conditioning parts and units of this size are extremely hard to come by since FEMA “in its infinite wisdom” bought up the entire

Soviet propaganda posters, 1917-1991

The Club For Growth takes note of this funny speech by Rep. Barney Frank (socialist!), in which he says: “Mr. Chairman, I am here to confess my reading incomprehension. I have listened to many of my conservative friends talk about the wonders of the free market, of the importance of letting the consumers make their best choices, of keeping

A world in which all goods are custom goods , as explained by LibertyGuys.