Monty Pelerin's World

The cost of regulatory compliance in the US is killing jobs and investment. George Will reports: According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, by 2008 the cost of federal regulations [...]

The idea that going to college is a financial boon to your lifetime income is rarely questioned. But is it? When you take into account the lost work time, tuition, [...]

Surprise, surprise! Who could have known that everything done so far would not work and would make things worse? Most non-Keynesian economists could have told you. Likewise most other human [...]

For investors or just curiosity-seekers, how we escape from the economic mess is of interest. Jim Puplava at FinancialSense.com stated: “I believe that getting the inflation/deflation story right is the [...]

For those who are interested in getting a lot of investing ideas for 2010 and beyond, check out the collection at The Kirk Report. A variety of different viewpoints that [...]

Image via Wikipedia History is replete with situations where the middle class of a country has been wiped out as a result of the profligacy of its government. If one [...]