If carbon offsets are such a good idea, why not apply it to other areas of life?

Let us commemorate March 14 as the date that the U.S. government lost its remaining moral authority

Precise understanding requires precise terminology and clear meaning

Because few speculators and investors understand the real-estate cycle and its relation to the business cycle, they have great uncertainty about where the economy is headed

A little known ancient religion in Iraq is in danger of being totally exterminated: Mandaeanism

Treating the U.S. president as a head of state violates the spirit of the American revolution

In 1978, the voters of California approved Proposition 13, which cut the real property tax, but failed to constrain the growth of government, and increased tax burdens

If the land owner is willing to pay to others their due, then he should be supreme on his land

If the minimum wage is beneficial, logic tells us that minima will benefit us in all these other areas also

The arguments being made for or against increasing the U.S. troops in Iraq have left out the essential details of what exactly they are supposed to do

Anywhere government officials see money flowing, they have a compulsion to tax it. Their motto is, “tax anything that moves.”

Petty tyrants get their power by exploiting relationships which their victims cannot avoid at the time

In the US, the Minerals Management Service has been lax in tapping the oil rent

Corn adds value to agriculture, but who benefits from the higher price of corn?

There are already recessions in two key industries, residential real estate and automobile manufacturing

To those who seek freedom, Milton Friedman will always be a hero and a major thinker on par with other giants such as Ludwig von Mises and Henry George

According to the drug warriors, catnip has been a major gateway to the human abuse of drugs, and yet there has been no prohibition

With the Democratic Party taking the reigns of power in Congress, change is coming to the bungled war in Iraq

The corrupting influence of money in politics is widely deplored, and some reformers are seeking the superficial remedy, government financing of political campaigns

This is a good year to be a student of economics, because it is easy to calculate per-capita figures