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The diminishing dollar: the price of gold in U.S. dollars is jumping, with credible predictions that it will skyrocket. As the dollar's value begins to plummet, we examine what's to blame and its solution.	Cover story	Nov 9, 2009	3094
More Moore: Michael Moore, in his new movie Capitalism: A Love Story, points fingers of guilt for the implosion of the U.S. banking system and the U.S. economy.		Nov 9, 2009	1617
G-20 summit.		Oct 26, 2009	784
Premier Polish patriot: Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a member of Poland's nobility, used his engineering genius on the behalf of both America's and Poland's freedom.		Oct 12, 2009	2492
Why End The Fed? Congressman Ron Paul explains how present monetary policy is not only immoral but leads to big government and to governmental funding of normally unpopular activities.		Sep 28, 2009	2153
Who needs enemies: Triple Cross, by investigative journalist Peter Lance, is a detailed telling of al-Qaeda's attempts to attack America, and the U.S. government's interagency rivalries, turf wars, internal coverups, and incompetence that led to U.S. failures to stop al-Qaeda.	Book review	Aug 17, 2009	1506
Browning: one man's impact: John Moses Browning was the most prolific gun designer ever--yet his guns were marvels of simplicity and reliability.	Biography	Aug 17, 2009	4144
Freedom and progress: America's separation of powers was compelled by a strong distrust of government. Now, however, many Americans believe "government does it better"--though history warns otherwise.	Cover story	Jul 6, 2009	3548
Government motors: General Motors, once a proud success story of American free-enterprise capitalism, is now in the vanguard of our nation's precipitous plunge into full-blown socialism.		Jun 22, 2009	1964
Nurturing the Great Depression: Dr. Robert Higgs makes the case that not only did FDR's New Deal exacerbate the Great Depression, but that it altered America's political and economic landscape.	Book review	Jun 8, 2009	1478
Roots of economic crisis: to truly understand the economic crisis now and its trajectory, it is instructive to know the causes of the Great Depression. Lords of Finance gives that background on a personal level.	Book review	May 25, 2009	2275
Pyramid schemes put in perspective: the real rub of the Ivar Kreuger and Bernie Madoff sagas is that both men were caught doing precisely what governments do as a matter of course through central banking.		May 11, 2009	2109
Titanic treasury takeover: the Treasury Department's "framework for regulatory reform" is actually a plan for the most massive federal power grab since the New Deal.		Apr 27, 2009	2023
The new GM: government made: socialist Sweden refused to bail out its pivotal automaker Saab, yet our government jumps at the chance to own GM.		Apr 27, 2009	1535
Creating wealth: the Federal Reserve's ability to create money out of thin air and to manipulate the value of the dollar gives if ultimate control over the purse strings of every American household.	Cover story	Apr 13, 2009	4091
Economics a hot topic in Meltdown: today's hard times are prompting people to learn more about the forces that drive our economy, and Thomas Woods' Meltdown offers an entertaining way to do just that.	Book review	Apr 13, 2009	1388
Shock & awe economics: the Obama stimulus bill has been called "shock and awe for a shaken nation," a military metaphor that may unintentionally hint at the economic devastation it could cause.	Cover story	Mar 16, 2009	3684
Economic "bankruptcy bill": behind the unprincipled politicking going on with the stimulus bill is the sobering reality that the nearly $800 billion price tag will do nothing to stimulate the economy.		Mar 2, 2009	2245
Parallels with the Great Depression: the parallels between the run-up to the Great Depression and today's economic havoc are stunning.		Feb 16, 2009	2871
Obama: the change that's not.		Feb 2, 2009	741
Bernanke's money maneuvers: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's radical policies have prompted alarm that they might worsen our economic recession/depression.		Jan 5, 2009	2808
Ron Paul: a man of ideas and ideals: Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas, the first book-length biography of the noted congressman, tells the back story of the man behind the revolution, a best-selling book, and the Internet phenomenon.	Book review	Jan 5, 2009	1310
Bretton Woods: while WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal, but what will happen this time?		Dec 22, 2008	3525
Free-market thinkers: with bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty?		Dec 8, 2008	3221
In a free market, money doesn't grow on trees: supporters of big government have been blaming the current economic crisis on the free market. We shoot down five of their anti-free-market fallacies and show where the fault really lies.	Cover story	Nov 24, 2008	3684
The panic of 2008: thanks to Congress, the American taxpayer has been stuck with the bill for the bailout plan--but that is only the beginning. Where else could the Panic of 2008 take us?	Cover story	Nov 10, 2008	3645
The panic of '07: as a result of comparatively limited government involvement, the Panic of 1907 ran its course quickly. Could the same happen today if free-market processes were left alone?		Oct 27, 2008	1701
Fanning the flames in Georgia: an American defense of Georgia could risk nuclear war, yet the Bush administration seems determined to turn this brush fire into a Cuban Missile Crisis-like stare-down.	Viewpoint essay	Oct 13, 2008	1872
Doting over America's decline: respected newsman and consummate insider, Fareed Zakaria paints a rosy picture of unabated globalism and global governance and tells why America's crises are overblown.	Book review	Sep 29, 2008	1843
Delegate dilemmas and duties: although today's complex nominating process for delegates to the party conventions is not what the Founders envisioned, delegates still have a duty to uphold the Constitution.		Sep 1, 2008	1728
Moral behind Mugabe.	Viewpoint essay	Aug 4, 2008	1524
Apples to oranges? How the front-running candidates compare when the rhetoric is peeled away: a comparison between Barack Obama and John McCain may seem like comparing apples to oranges, but there is more to these candidates than meets the eye.	Cover story	Jul 21, 2008	3155
Opposing Mugabe: the socialist rule of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has destroyed the economy of this once-prosperous African nation. Despite calls for "freedom," Mugabe is having none of it.		Jul 7, 2008	1096
The Great Depression: contrary to conventional wisdom, the historical record shows that interventionist policies during the Hoover and FDR administrations caused and prolonged the Great Depression.		Jun 23, 2008	3044
Rising food costs: many different events play a part in creating the current food crisis, but it is the inflationary policies of governments that must bear the lion's share of the blame.	Cover story	Jun 9, 2008	3032
Back to Narnia with Prince Caspian: fans of C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia will likely find Prince Caspian to be a visually and technically magnificent family-friendly film that misses the mark in a few areas.		Jun 9, 2008	1239
Revolutionary ideas: Congressman Ron Paul's new book The Revolution: A Manifesto is an elegant look at the limited government bequeathed to us by the Founders and how we can preserve it.	Book review	May 26, 2008	1491
The money trust's next move: the looming financial crisis has set the stage for giving the Fed broad powers over not just banking but the entire financial sector.		Apr 28, 2008	2051
Youth in our future: the children of the '60s and '70s rebels are growing up, and many do not like the Brave New World their parents' generation has foisted on them. They are our future hope.	Essay	Apr 14, 2008	1621
America's north star: a tour of Alaska, our last frontier state, shows what America and Americans were once like: self-reliant, bold, freedom-loving, and disdainful of government intervention.	State overview	Mar 31, 2008	4251
State-sanctioned counterfeiting: the Federal Reserve's little-understood financial operations have just gotten a bit more arcane, thanks to the recent creation of the Term Auction Facility, or TAF.		Mar 17, 2008	1008
Avoiding extreme solutions: in trying to solve the problem of illegal immigration, both extremes--opening our southern border completely or imposing police-state controls--must be avoided.	Cover story	Mar 3, 2008	1584
Parting with Pakistan: our "valuable ally" Pakistan is perhaps the greatest proliferator of nuclear technology. By continuing to give Pakistan foreign aid, we boost its nuclear capability.	Viewpoint essay	Feb 4, 2008	1609
The subprime crisis: the U.S. government has announced that it will aid Americans affected by the subprime mortgage debacle, but the "aid" will merely delay and worsen the consequences.		Jan 21, 2008	1647
All that's golden doesn't glitter: New Line's fantasy film The Golden Compass is a watered-down version of the first book in author Philip Pullman's blatantly anti-Christian His Dark Materials trilogy.		Dec 24, 2007	2164
Turkish travails: though Turkey is now considered a main U.S. ally in the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy is driving a wedge between the countries.		Nov 26, 2007	1929
The faithful rendering of Rendition: the Hollywood movie Rendition, though depicting fictional incidents and characters, accurately portrays the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" torture program.		Nov 12, 2007	2054
It's good at the top: NAFTA promised to raise wages and living conditions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, yet the middle class in these countries is getting poorer while the rich get richer.		Oct 15, 2007	997
The old Wagoner: Daniel Morgan, a rugged frontiersman who earned the nickname "the Old Wagoner" while working as a teamster, helped turn the tide in America's War for Independence.		Aug 6, 2007	2923
The battle of Chalons: in confronting the Huns under Attila, the man known as "the last Roman" led the remnant forces of Western civilization against the rampaging barbarian horde.		Jul 9, 2007	2762
Double standard on immigration: while Mexico insists that America should welcome all Mexican nationals with open arms, the Mexican government harshly enforces its own anti-illegal immigration laws.	Cover story	Jun 11, 2007	912
From foreign follies to freedom: Congressman Ron Paul's new book, A Foreign Policy of Freedom, exposes America's foreign-policy follies and espouses the Founding Fathers' wisdom as the key to freedom.		May 28, 2007	1362
Orwell was right--and wrong: George Orwell's 1984 accurately portrays many aspects of totalitarianism, but this tale of "Big Brother" is not without its flaws.		May 14, 2007	1938
The lesson of Walter Reed: the mistreatment of our wounded veterans at Walter Reed Medical Center provides a glimpse of what national healthcare could be like.		Apr 30, 2007	1091
The view from south of the border: the deleterious effects of NAFTA in the United States are all too well known to Americans, but south of the border the agreement has likewise gutted the Mexican economy.		Apr 16, 2007	1232
The West's first stand: Marathon: at the dawn of what was to become Western Civilization, the Athenians won an amazing victory over the Persians at Marathon.		Apr 2, 2007	2696
The lost crusade: in the 13th century, Christian crusaders who took up the cross to liberate the Holy Land from Islam were misdirected into serving very different ends.		Mar 19, 2007	4049