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Here I am pictured with the first students graduating from the Mark Skousen School of Business at Grantham University on Saturday, June 21, 2008, in Kansas City. Grantham University (www.grantham.edu) is one of the fastest growing on-line universities.  It is a four-year accredited university with some 8000 students, the majority of which are active duty in the US [...]

Were the giants of the Gilded Age — John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan — pious frauds who exploited and bilked the public on their way to achieving their ill-gotten millions? Or were they bold innovators and noble capitalists who established America as the richest, most productive country on the planet? [...]

Today libertarians spend most of their time lamenting the consequences of big government. And rightly so. Today government is less a defender of freedom and more a Hobbesian leviathan that undermines prosperity. When we do talk about limited government, it is often seen solely as “a necessary evil.” Too much government and the economy chokes. [...]

CLASH OF THE TITANS “You’re all a bunch of socialists!” — Ludwig von Mises (Vienna) “We are friends and foes!” — Milton Friedman (Chicago) Austrian and Chicago economists have battled Keynesians, Marxists and socialists alike, but they often fight each other as well. What are the differences between the Austrian and Chicago schools, and why [...]