Wanted to share these video entries to the APEE/MBM Communicators contest. Check 'em out while gnoshing your lunch, maybe learn a lil something:Part OnePart TwoThanks,Max Borders ... Keep Reading
Free Trade
Cooperation without Centralization
I love this fable. If you've never read "I, Pencil," you should.-Max Borders ... Keep Reading
The Relationship Between Trade & Peace
My dear friend Michael Strong has a wonderful paper up detailing the relationship between peace and free trade. (Michael is co-founder along with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey of ... Keep Reading
Ghetto Nihilism: Reflections on MLK Day
Civitas just had NPR's Juan Williams as a guest speaker. In his open forum discussion, he laid out a case against ghetto nihilism similar to this one made by Rod Dreher (whom I ... Keep Reading
From Leftist to Libertarian?
Interesting interview with John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods on his evolution from democratic socialist to compassionate free-marketeer. Mackey reminds us that even our most ... Keep Reading
Economic Freedom Index
Heritage's Economic Freedom Index is out. (I wish they would do this for the individual states within the US.) Not suprisingly, Hong Kong is still the most economically free place ... Keep Reading
Milton Friedman v. Naomi Klein
Posthumous argument.-Max Borders (HT: Brian Balfour) ... Keep Reading
More Krugmania Debunking
Sheldon Richman uses this Freeman article to undertake a task that seems to be all too easy these days: exposing NYT columnist Paul Krugman for the statist and bad economist he ... Keep Reading
Boudreaux on Today’s Krugmania
I'm starting to think that Paul Krugman is so enamored with being a darling of the left, that he has forgotten - or perhaps abandoned - even the fundamentals (law of comparative ... Keep Reading
Roberts on Economic Pessimism
Sky falling? Nah. Onward and upward. -Max Borders ... Keep Reading