Peter Schweizer has gotten lots of press on the charges in his just published book, Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and the Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Crony Capitalism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison, that members of Congress made major moves in the stock market in response to information they received from top Treasury and Federal Reserve officials.

Forty years ago today, the entire world was launched into a brand new financial experiment. Viewing matters from 2011, how do we like the results?

Free speech absolutists express general constitutional values shared by most of us, but they're useless in figuring out how to treat offensive speech in the real world.

Under the right circumstances, it is likely that governments will undertake coercive measures, resulting in financial repression.

Americans are coping with the recession, but many in the middle class report they are worried about staying there.

The market stampeded into stocks in 1998, houses in 2005, and now gold in 2009.

Democrats captured both houses of the legislature and a Senate and House seat in 2004, the governorship in 2006, and a Senate and House seat in 2008.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's abolishment of the "gold clause" in 1933 has been hurting American markets ever since.