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Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and national security adviser under Nixon, has died at 100.

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Excerpts about Adam Smith from Reason's vaults.

Forgive me for bit of own-horn tooting, but it's not every day that someone as prominent and respected as George...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

More than thirty years ago, Japan Inc., seemed like a global economic juggernaut

The House of Representatives recently passed an appropriations billto provide $14.3 billion in discretionary funding to the Departmentof the Interior and Related Agencies.

I’ve been in a discussion on Fake-Fact-Checker Facebook in the last few days on the topic of John Kenneth Galbraith. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the three economists that were most well-known were Galbraith on the left, Paul Samuelson on the center left, and Milton Friedman on the libertarian end. The discussion was mainly about| USSA News

BG1110: Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the NationalEndowment for the Arts

In Revolutionary Russia: 1881-1991, author Orlando Figes explains what happened when Vladimir Lenin turned to private enterprise and free markets out of pure necessity.  “The restoration of the market brought life back to the Soviet economy. Private trade responded instantly to the chronic shortages that had built up over seven years of war, revolution, and the Civil War."