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The Real Lesson of the Great Depression

The Monopoly Myth: The Case of Standard Oil

No Caps for Payday Loans

For Greens, the Energy Crisis Is Not a Problem, It's the Solution

Don't Ban Trans Fats

End the Fast Food Ban

(Public-Private) Partners in Crime

End Censorship on the Airwaves

Government to Blame for Housing and Financial Crisis

The Attack on Oil Speculators: Shooting the Messenger

New Law Trashes Genetic Science

Supreme Court's "Retaliation" Decisions Raise New Obstacles for Employers

Blame Big Congress, Not Big Oil, For High Prices

Fish vs. Men in the Supreme Court

The Morality of Capitalism

Tax Code Should Not Be Used to Dictate Our Values

The Obesity Police Are Coming

"Retaliation": Another Job Security Weapon

Exxon's Lonely Battle

Memo to Gates: The Cause of Third-World Poverty Is Not Capitalism, But a Lack of Capitalism

Poor Countries Don't Need Climate Change Welfare, They Need Capitalism

Liberate, Don't Stimulate, the Economy

Making Money in Medicine Is Moral

The Enemies of Energy

The Government Makes Mortgage Lenders an Offer They Can't Refuse

Predatory Legislating

Bailouts in Disguise

Ban Belmont's Smoking Ban

Should Businessmen Go on Strike?

Why Businessmen Love Atlas Shrugged

A Foreign-Aid Controversy . . . Reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged

The Influence of Atlas Shrugged

The Real Lesson of the Great Depression

Fish vs. Men in the Supreme Court

The Morality of Capitalism

Tax Code Should Not Be Used to Dictate Our Values

And You Thought It Was Your Room

The EU's $2.5 Billion Theft from Microsoft

Exxon's Lonely Battle

Memo to Gates: The Cause of Third-World Poverty Is Not Capitalism, But a Lack of Capitalism

Poor Countries Don't Need Climate Change Welfare, They Need Capitalism

Liberate, Don't Stimulate, the Economy

Making Money in Medicine Is Moral

The Government Makes Mortgage Lenders an Offer They Can't Refuse

Predatory Legislating

Bailouts in Disguise

"The Ayn Rand Lexicon": now available free on the Web!

Reject the Latest Push for Net Neutrality

Congress Should Not Dictate Mental Health Benefits

Make TV Free

Message to Presidential Candidates: Income Inequality Is Good

EU Has No Right to Punish Microsoft

What Not to Do about Subprime Failures

HillaryCare 2.0: More of the Poison that Is Killing Our Healthcare System

End, Don't Extend, the Persecution of Microsoft

Don't Regulate Toy Safety

End Government Licensing

End, Don't Mend, the World Bank

How to Truly Defeat OPEC

Blame the Government, Not the Market, for Exorbitant Health-Care Costs

Be Healthy or Else!

The Deadly FDA

"Open-Access" vs. Freedom in the Wireless Industry

Pharmaceutical Price Controls: A Prescription for Disaster

The "Alternative Energy" Farm Bill Fiasco

Income Inequality Is Good

Liberate American Energy Producers, Neuter OPEC

The Flavor Police

Don't Revive the Fairness Doctrine

Punishing Wal-Mart's Greatness

Unions Have No Right to Force Non-Members to Pay for Political Campaigns

The G-8 vs. the Immoral Bandwagon for African Aid

Compulsory National Service Is Anti-American

Chavez Steals American Property, Bush Does Nothing

Government Should Not Force Companies to Hold Shareholder Votes on CEO Pay

The Enemy of Prosperity

Government Must Not Tighten Lending Standards

End the Assault on Private Property

Manufacturers Should Be Free to Set Their Pricing Policies

End, Don't Mend, Sarbanes-Oxley

Legalize "Price-Fixing"

Punishing Wal-Mart's Greatness

Abolish the SEC's Investor Wealth Requirement

Bush and Chavez: The Two Amigos

"Shareholder Democracy" vs. Shareholder Rights

EU Has No Right to Fine Microsoft

Are Businesses Slaves to Consumers?

Preventing Mergers Destroys Competition

The Un-American Opposition to "Income Inequality"

India Should Protect Pharmaceutical Patents

Airlines Should Be Free to Merge

The Media's Mistreatment of Jeff Skilling

Restrictions on Internet Gambling Are an Infringement on Our Rights

Eminent Domain vs. Property Rights

New York Has No Right to Force Restaurants to Cut Trans Fats

"Universal" Health Care Is Immoral

Big Thanks to Big Pharma

Victory for Big Tobacco Is a Victory for Rule of Law

Buffett and Gates Ignore the Fundamental Cause of World Poverty

Media Ownership Restrictions Should Be Abolished

Net Neutrality vs. Internet Freedom

House's Decision to Keep Ban on Oil and Gas Drilling Is a Disgrace

"Indecency" Fines: An Ominous Attack on Free Speech

Why Conservatives Are Anti-Business

Property Rights vs. Need

Quotes from Ayn Rand on the Philosophical Basis of Capitalism

More Commentary from a Pro-Capitalist Perspective 

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