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 2005/04/17 - Jorge ValínNot One Single Law Against EmploymentThe goal of freedom and social welfare necessarily leads to eliminating state intervention. We must not fight just to copy some other country. Our effort needs to focus on getting the state off our backs, stopping it from intervening in everything and having each of us take responsibility for our own actions.
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 2005/04/12 - Fernando Díaz VillanuevaThe Minister´s Mini-HousesShe has imagined building micro-apartments, 25 square meters (269 square feet) in total, so she can stuff young people into them. The few lucky youngsters receiving one of these micro-habitation solutions, can thank her for the rest of their lives. The driving force behind the Minister’s idea is that we take up too much room and, therefore, we need to ration space by sharing hallways, bathrooms and storage rooms.
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 2005/04/11 - Gabriel CalzadaThe Business Of FearComing up with unreal fears has become its own industry. It consists of producing and selling a fictitious economic good or service to satisfy a need fabricated out of half-truths or total lies.
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2005/04/07 - Fernando Díaz VillanuevaCourt Of MiraclesThe surprising exception to this unwritten “disaster” law, is the autonomous community of Madrid, a tiny region stuck in the middle of nowhere and to which everyone refers in the most disdainful manner. The report is conclusive; between 1995 and 2004 Madrid created 756,200 jobs, that is, the actively employed population grew 45% in less than a decade.
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2005/03/27 - Gabriel CalzadaNew Victims Of The European Social ModelThe project was one of the few good things to come out of the interventionist and bureaucratic capital of Europe. Its essence was to break down barriers to providing any type of service in member states different from the country of origin or residence.
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2005/03/20 - Gabriel CalzadaEuropean Hari-KariLimiting spending, what goes out, to what comes in does not guarantee economic growth –imagine a balanced budget with taxes confiscating 90% of income. A public deficit, however, submits the economy’s earning cows to serious liposuction.
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 2005/03/13 - José Carlos RodríguezMicrocredits, Regulations And DevelopmentBut as valuable as this advance in the financial system may be, the microcredit could end up building a house from the roof down. The key is not ensuring a small amount of money gets to a family in Calcutta, but to turning this money into capital.
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2005/03/13 - Jorge ValínExploited And ExploitersIf you are a salary worker and the company where you work pays you, for example, 1000 euros a month, 380 are immediately taken by the state. In other words, of the 1000 euros the company pays out, you only see 620.
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 2005/02/13 - Daniel Rodríguez HerreraFree ADSLAlthough prices
for ADSL Internet connections for end users are decided freely, Telefonica (Spain’s former
public telephone monopoly) is forced to resell to wholesalers at a price based
on what users are offered. As the dominant operator, the State
Telecommunications Commission, recently deported off to Barcelona, must
first approve its latest offers. This
limitation was included because only Telefonica possessed the necessary
infrastructure to offer ADSL.
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2005/02/13 - Jorge ValínThe 35 Hour FiascoThe 35 hour work week doesn’t need to be destructive as long as it isn’t forced on people by law. We have gone from an average work week of 70 hours in the early 19th century to around 40 today. Some believe this drop is thanks to the efforts of politicians, unions and lobbies. But, in truth, this decrease in hours worked was made possible by the free market, that is to say, capitalism.
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