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Ladies, if you wear shoes from Nine West—maker of 1 out of 5 women’s shoes sold in the US—the government is here to tell you that you have been ripped off, exploited, and victimized by a price-fixing conspiracy hatched at the highest levels of the corporate elite. To defend your rights, the government has extracted $34 million from the company’s

“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,” says St. Luke on why Mary and Joseph found themselves in Bethlehem, “that all the world should be taxed.” Joseph had to go to his own city because the tyrannical Roman government was conducting a census. But the information may have been used for more than just taxation. The Roman government’s local

With so many Americans invested to the hilt, falling stocks can inflict serious financial pain. But far more damaging to long-term economic prospects will be the largest avalanche of economic nonsense to tumble out since the 1987 crash. Hordes of crackpot financial thinkers are already calling for draconian government measures to stop the

The anti-capitalism of college professors is legendary even if its genesis and basis is somewhat mysterious. If anything should be clear to those who care about evidence, it’s that the market economy is superior to all forms of economic planning. Even minimal amounts of government intervention produce sector-specific stagnation. Compare Fed-Ex,

Judge Jackson is not alone in his opinions about Microsoft. They are shared not only by Microsoft’s competitors who couldn’t cut it in the marketplace, but also by old-line socialists. Yes, they are still alive and kicking. One of the slickest sites on the web is the World Socialist Web Site , which is decidedly not among those the Clinton

There was a perverse reason President Clinton presided at the press conference announcing the cracking of the human genetic code. As is his way, he was attempting to steal credit, for himself and for the government generally, for a scientific breakthrough that was actually made possible by private enterprise. It was another manifestation of his

We now commence the annual national ritual of noticing that the Declaration of Independence is among the “founding” documents that gave birth to the country. And pundits, following innumerable scholars for 150 years, will twist and mangle the text to discern some other meaning from the document besides the obvious one. In most parts of the world,

The old-time caché of “public service” – that is, running other people’s lives at taxpayer expense as a bureaucrat for the government – is taking a beating in France. A new generation is coming to see that “public service” is not a high calling at all, but a very low one. For example, applications to France’s most prestigious public educational

Not a news event passes when anyone who knew him doesn’t wonder: what would Rothbard say about this? It’s a fun game to play, because Murray provided the outstanding example of how adherence to principles, and strategic application of principles, work themselves out in the real world. Reading or hearing his take on the passing scene was always a

It is election time, which means open season on the well-to-do. We are supposed to favor expropriating them in order to meet social needs to be provided by the government. Candidates who want to cut taxes go on the defensive, assuming that they must assure their audiences that the rich won’t benefit from their tax plan to any great extent. It’s