Free Markets

What followed 9/11 was 25 years of systematic destruction of American liberties, and the final destruction of the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "safety" and "patriotism."

What followed 9/11 was 25 years of systematic destruction of American liberties, and the final destruction of the Bill of Rights, all in the name of "safety" and "patriotism."

When government regulates or produces electricity, it claims to act in the name of conservation, or preventing “profligacy” by customers. Yet, only free markets can decide what is “profligate” and what is not.

One of the problems of defending private property rights is that opponents wish to muddy the waters by constantly shifting the ground on defining private property in the first place. These are diversionary tactics, not an attempt to promote serious arguments.

Labor unions and the general public almost totally ignore the essential role played by falling prices in achieving rising real wages.

Monetary authorities are wanting to remove currency and coin from the economy altogether and just have electronic transfers. That would be a mistake that would damage the free market.

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board.

Not even your Roomba vacuum cleaner is safe from state control. Time for the state to give up all economic controls across the board.

Freer markets have made what were once luxuries available to the masses, despite state interventions and regulations.

Vail recognized that market competition and “regulation and control are inconsistent with each other, and cannot be had at the same time.” Obviously, Vail favored the latter.