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Mises Daily
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Gardner Goldsmith
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In February, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake famously gave the world a new perspective on the term “pop music.” During the Superbowl half-time show, Timberlake grabbed the right bra cup of Jackson ‘s leather outfit, and exposed her breast to the world. In more ways than one, it was probably the most exposure Jackson had gotten for a
Mises Daily
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Tom Lehman
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal is a perfect example of how bad economic arguments in support of good ends can be easily twisted and used to confuse the general public (Gwendolyn Bounds, “ Argument for minimum-wage boost ,” 7/27/04, p. B3). When we engage in poor reasoning and faulty economic logic in support of a noble cause, we can
Mises Daily
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Carl F. Horowitz
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Private pensions in this country date back more than 100 years, that is to say, to a time when most people didn’t live long enough to collect them. Nowadays Americans take living comfortably to 75 and beyond to be an entitlement. Not that longevity in itself is something to complain about, but it does have a few downsides—like a gradually sinking
Mises Daily
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Ninos P. Malek
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People engage in fierce competition everyday. Entrepreneurs strive to create the next Microsoft, employees fight their way up the corporate ladder to become the next Donald Trump, and competitive athletes train their bodies to reach the level of a Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods. We can all appreciate the drive and spirit behind the competitive
Mises Daily
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Christopher Westley
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So the Martha Stewart trial has come to this. Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ruled that the government cannot introduce testimony about how Stewart’s statements to the press asserting her innocence of violating insider trading law affected investors of her firm, Martha Stewart Living. As a result, the government has effectively lost. The New York
Mises Daily
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Christopher Westley
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Last year, the governor of Alabama proposed and then overwhelmingly lost a bitter referendum to increase taxes and boost revenue. Voters rightly saw the campaign as a slick attempt to expand the public sector’s power, prestige, and wealth transfers by increasing the degree of legal plunder in Alabama’s tax system. It spoke highly of the voters in
Mises Daily
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B.K. Marcus
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Can markets predict the next presidential election? On one sports gambling website people are literally betting they can. Other websites are running virtual “prediction markets” in an attempt to harness the information that eludes pollsters. They solicit participation from the general public in much the same way real markets do in the real world.
Mises Daily
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
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The movement to privatize Social Security (fully or partially) may be the most ideologically duplicitous and fiscally irresponsible I’ve seen in my lifetime. It was proposed by Clinton and now by Bush. Whether it dies in the next few months or generates some monstrosity of a bill to be voted on, don’t believe that there is anything in the works
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Ken Lay, Martha Stewart, and now Frank P. Quattrone must have been the culprits who caused the recession of 2001 and are also responsible for the relatively poor performance of the economy since then. We can think of no other reason as to why the U.S. Government has embarked upon numerous criminal investigations of business firms and their