Interventionism

Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers.

The Kennedy cabinet, assembled on Robert Lovett’s advice.

234,000 acres of United Fruit land and a CIA invasion.
 

Who actually collected the $40 million for the Panama Canal?

Public employee unions have used their built-in advantages to damage this country’s political economy and work hardships on taxpayers.

Public works as a cure for unemployment: proposed, debated, and defended with arguments that would sound familiar a century later.

Murray Rothbard wrote that statistics are the lifeblood for government intervention. Based on certain presuppositions, statistics allow interventionists to identify “problems” to solve.

Politicians sell business regulation as benefiting consumers. In reality, as we saw from airline regulation, the system creates cartels that shut out consumers and benefit regulated businesses.

Mark Thornton explains how government intervention creates inequality, privileging protected industries and politically connected insiders while pushing costs onto everyone else.

It is not enough to treat property as a default state of nature that will eventually assert itself and merely needs to be intellectually explained. We must continually be ready to defend private property.