Libertarians are in general less than enamored with taxation on the simple but sensible ground that most people can make better use of their own money than the government can...

If you want to read a very short book on how we got into the financial crisis, I don't think you could do better than John B. Taylor's Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis...

Now that the federal government has decided to bail out homeowners in trouble, with mortgage loans up to $729,000, that raises some questions that ought to be asked, but are seldom being asked...

How big of a role did the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy of September have in the creating the current environment?...