How to Ride the Dollar
It's up for now, but can it last?
Features
Deflation—Here Now, More Coming
Gold under $300, oil under $10-you'd better bet on it.
Inflation or Deflation—Who Can Tell?
Whatever the future, you can protect yourself with an "armadillo strategy."
Profits On-Line
Your personal computer could be your best investment tool.
Melt Down: The Deak Saga
A precious metals empire in decline.
Nuclear Winter: How Much Do We Really Know?
A well-publicized study predicts that even a limited nuclear war would plunge much of the earth into darkness and freezing, threatening the very survival of mankind. Many are taking the prediction as fact, but uncertainties abound.
Don't Let Amtrak Con You
President Reagan is trying to cut Amtrak's billions in subsidies, but the great train bureaucracy is fighting back-with a lot of flimflam.
The Budget Revolution That Wasn't
If you believed candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980, you should have seen federal spending of $760 billion last year. Instead, it was $842 billion. Any guesses about 1988 spending?
Ciskei's Independent Way
Critics at home say this black "homeland" is a traitor to the anti-apartheid cause. Critics abroad say its hopes for prosperity are a pipedream. An investigative reporter goes to Ciskei to find out what's really happening.
How to Short-Circuit the Utility Monopoly
The road from utility regulation to a free market is strewn with consumerist objections. A futuristic scenario shows a way through.
The Ovals
Make way, Hollywood! It's time to hand out awards for the real entertainment of 1984-the race for the Oval Office
Congress's Conservative Young Turks
A group of brash young representatives calls itself the "Conservative Opportunity Society" and speaks glowingly of free enterprise. Is it genuine, or another case of political opportunism?
It's Effective—But Is It Safe?
Sidney Wolfe's Health Research Group has taken on health issues from food coloring to cold remedies. But the diagnosis is often hasty and the prescription has serious side effects.
Socialism with a Pragmatic Face
Spain's socialist revolutionaries are now politicians, and that means even freedom can prosper here and there.
Cab Scam
Even taxis are controlled by Chicago's corrupt political machine. Now pressure is building to dismantle the city-supported cab monopoly.
Calling the Shots
The American public is largely uninformed about guns and crime, because the American media largely ignore the facts and figures.
Fighting the Soviet Imperialists: The Khmer in Cambodia
Once a peaceful land, Cambodia has suffered a decade of unspeakable horrors. Now, a strange and uneasy alliance of Communists, liberal democrats, and monarch loyalists is struggling to free the Khmer people from their Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupiers.
Competition (Except Where Prohibited by Law)
The antitrust laws don't promote competition-they stifle it. But then, consider their source.
Is There Life After Medicare?
Medicare is dying, and if the politicians would just admit it, we could get on with building a fairer alternative.
Could Hobbes Trounce Hayek?
Freedom for the individual is often thought to mean chaos for society, but exciting new research shows how and why self-interest is served by cooperation.
Space Entrepreneurs
Their business is rockets. Their dream is space. Their bane is NASA.
The Garrison File: Profile of a Pork Barrel
For environmentalists, it's an ecological disaster. For taxpayers, it's a stupendous boondoggle. But thanks to a handful of special interests, a federal water project in North Dakota defies liquidation.
A Profit a Day Keeps Insolvency Away
It took a dose of the private sector to revive an ailing government hospital in Canada.
Patience Is a Market Virtue
Why the free market can provide for the long term, while the government can barely plan past next Thursday.
How the Rich Get Richer in Texas
Texans talk a good line on free enterprise, but they're falling all over themselves to subsidize everything from picante sauce to posh hotels.
Saving the Poor from Welfare
A noted sociologist shows that there is a way to win the failed War on Poverty-scrap the entire federal welfare system. An excerpt from Losing Ground.
Miami's Cuban Miracle
In an excerpt from his new book, the author of Wealth and Poverty tells how Cuban immigrants have sparked an entrepreneurial boom in Miami.
Convention Comedy
The Democratic and Republican conventions played like a farce, but the actors on the political stage are deadly serious.
Another Chance for Reaganomics?
A noted supply-sider diagnoses the problems with Reaganomics and writes a prescription for a second Reagan term.
Hill Bent on Spending
Do you want the bloated deficit controlled? Look to the members of Congress perched on Capitol Hill, says the Grace Commission report.
Telecommuting: Will the Plug be Pulled?
Workers who "commute" to work by computer would be made outlaws if the forces opposing home work have their way.
Sweet Truth
What do scientists really know about saccharin? And what does it mean for the regulators?
Bipartisan Baloney
An industrial policy will mean wise regulation by independent experts? History tells otherwise.
Cloaking the State's Dagger
The history of political thought is a history of one euphemism after another to disguise the naked power of the state.
Fighting the Soviet Imperialists: The Mujaheddin in Afghanistan
Poorly armed but highly courageous, Afghanistan's "holy warriors" have refused to bow before the awesome military might of the Soviet Union.
Two Hands, One Mouth
Can we afford to let in more immigrants? Can we afford not to?
The 59¢ Fallacy
The earnings gap between men and women can't be pinned on discrimination.
Abracadabra Prosperity
Advocates of an industrial policy are curiously like primitive Melanesians, who thought that the magic of ritual could bring them wealth.
A New Route for Mass Transit
Chicago entrepreneurs are showing that mass transit doesn't have to be a government monopoly.
Dialyzing for Dollars
Kidney machines have become money machines under the government's kidney program-and taxpayers are not the only victims.
Reining in the Imperial Congress
Members of Congress couldn't wreak as much havoc if we limited them to one term.
What to Make of Margaret Thatcher?
In five years as Britain's prime minister, she's broken with forty years of British politics.
The Ups and Downs of the Flying Car
It's a car! It's a plane! It's both! And inventor Moult Taylor won't give up his vision.
Standing Guard Over Europe
American troops in Europe were never meant to be a part of NATO-but they've been there for 33 years.
Fighting the Soviet Imperialists: The Contras in Nicaragua
An inside look at Nicaragua's anti-Marxist rebels-who they are and why they are fighting.
Family Fever
Conservatives and liberals prescribe government ministrations for the ailing American family. But a thorough checkup yields a different diagnosis and a laissez-faire prescription.
Why Aren't You Worried about a Shortage of Whale Oil?
America's first oil crisis occurred long before the 1970s-and it was solved without the government stepping in.
