So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it.
That government has managed to corrupt our sense of justice to the point that it can perpetrate such a transparent fraud upon any fully conscious human being is yet another argument in favor of the free society and against the state.
The Fed is there to print all the money the federal government will need. There is no limit on its power to do so. We aren't taxed. For that reason, people are not scandalized by the numbers or the corruption. We don't even call it that. There is nothing about the numbers that seems real.
So there you have it: a theory of causation (lack of regulation) and a proposed solution (more regulation). Are we supposed to believe that in a properly and full regulated world, there would be no unexpected accidents or any regretable malfunctions?
The seemingly impressive Swedish boom will certainly be revealed as a fraud — just as the whole story of the success of the Swedish economic model is a fraud.
Rent-to-own stores are guilty of making furniture and large appliances available to people without credit or substantial savings, and at a relatively low monthly cost.
This story is a little older but it shows the path down which Chicago is going.
What we need today is full, radical, complete, uncompromised deregulation and privatization. We need competition. What we need is the absence of legal barriers to enter the market. Many people want to avoid the topic of energy because it is technical, large, and seems too specialized. But Robert Bradley's book tells you what you need to know, from the perspective of history, economics, and politics; and it does so understandably.
I remember when I was at Walter Block’s excellent Radical Austrianism, Radical Libertarianism seminar last summer, someone asked him
