A Walk on the Supply Side
What exactly is supply-side economics, anyway?
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Supply-Side Success Stories
Far from being untried, supply-side economics has achieved considerable success around the world.
Gold Bug Gumbo
Mix a bushelful of investment advisors, add equal handfuls of inflationists and deflationists, and lace with a dash of humor. Serves thousands in New Orleans. A report on NCMR's 1980 recipe.
The New Money Market: Savers' Liberation
The banks don't like them, but the new money market instruments offer some of the best deals around.
Preparing for the Unpredicatble with a Personal Portfolio
An excerpt from the just-published book
Costa Rica: Still the "Switzerland of the Americas"?
With Nicaragua on one flank and Panama on the other, can Costa Rica be a safe haven for you or your money?
"Stamping" Out Inflation
Can pieces of paper issued by the government protect you from paper money?
Looking for a Silver Lining
Has silver finished its plunge?
Investment Advisors
When they're hot, they're hot, and when they're not they're not
Amtrak: Congress's Toy Trains
Like papas at Christmas time, the members of Congress love to give their district trains. The price tag? A cool billion dollars a year in taxpayers' money.
Dog Days for the Small Entrepreneur
When New York City inspector meets New York City vendor, all looks hopeless-until…
How Good Are the Arguments for Public Education?
Everyone has a right to an education.…Everyone benefits from children's education, so everyone should pay…Parents might neglect their responsibilities.…Well, let's see
Are Businesses Really Opposed to Big Government?
Actions speak louder than words
An Open Letter to President Reagan
The income tax, Mr. President, is the issue—not harassment by the tax police, not "bracket creep," not loopholes for the rich, but the very income tax itself.
Socialism…on the Street Where You Live
All across the country, the new "progressives" are taking steps to capture the cities' wealth
Dial D for Deregulation
The telephone monopoly is coming apart-and just about everyone stands to benefit.
Why the Conservatives Will Fail, If They Fail
A reply to George Will
The Plot to Take Over America's Railroads
There are powerful bureaucrats in Washington. There are master plans mapping out which railroads will live and die. There are innovators being kept from modernizing rail service. This is the saga of the Federal Railroad Administration.
Concealed Costs/Bloated Benefits
Your federal tax dollars at work
Supreme Court Overturns Saccharin Ban
FDA must bear burden of proof
Who Can Cross Our Borders?
A new solution to the immigration problem
Queensland Quops
Australia's quasi cops show how quietly a police state comes
Soup in Your Lap
Why can't you get good service?
Bearing Witness: Should You Be Forced?
The Founding Fathers wanted to look out for accused criminals, so they provided for compulsory testimony. But that poses a dilemma for individual rights.
Data Privacy: What Washington Doesn't Want You to Know
New, unbreakable codes offer people true communications privacy, for the first time. But the government is fighting to keep this amazing technology for itself.
The Decline and Fall of Economic Freedom
How the Supreme Court reversed itself on economic regulation.
H.L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Mencken's birth REASON reprints a classic essay.
"Constraints on Government"
Mont Pelerin Society-1980
Self-Help Schooling in South Boston
Why did these blue-collar parents follow rich folks and the counterculture along the road to private schooling? And how did they pull it off?
Barry Commoner: The Sunshine Candidate
Does bad science make good politics?
How Right Is Reagan?
The GOP platform is a curious mixture of pragmatism and purity.
Ed Clark: Another Kind of Candidate
The Libertarian Party looks like it's here to stay.
Dumping the Garbage Monopoly
"You can't have free competition in trash collection," they say. But the people of Wichita decided to give it a try.
Housing Tangled in Red Tape
It sounded good: government would help make houses safe with detailed building codes. But today's codes extract a very high price. Isn't there a better way to have safe houses?
How Far Can Thatcher Go?
Undoing decades of British socialism isn't easy
A Few Kind Words for Warren G. Harding
Forget what you read in your history books about the twenty-ninth president of the United States.
Everything Your Child Always Wanted to Know
…about school, that is, but was afraid to ask. A psychologist and parent has some answers.
Wun Niu Fela Kuntri
A different kind of liberation movement emerges in the New Hebrides
