Free Markets

No taxpayer money was needed to construct the Las Vegas Motor Speedway or the arenas at various casinos. Funding to build a baseball stadium should be no different.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Ayn Rand's birth. Her books sold in the millions and were most effective in transforming a generation of readers into ardent anti-communists and strong capitalists.

Joseph Potts asks how much longer the United States, in its dealings with Cuba, will continue its futile and ossified policy of frustrating the very sort of trade that made the US the wonder and envy of the world.

The presence of the medical welfare state has permitted costs that would have fallen upon the families most affected to be imposed on others, writes William Anderson.

State medical boards, writes Henry E. Jones, masquerade as consumer protection agencies to get public support, police powers, and taxpayer dollars.

In a true free-market secured to private property rights, writes Ninos Malek, employers can determine employee qualifications on any grounds whatsoever.

The true state of the Union, writes DW MacKenzie, is that its chief executive fails to grasp the profound truth that central planning by political elites can never match the results of decentralized planning by the general public--even when it is done in the name of liberty.

Roderick Long celebrates Ayn Rand's work and influence in this piece written on the centenary of her birth.

Despite years of policy debacle and dictatorship, writes Ryan McMaken, Chile has taken a turn toward liberalism that has gone largely unnoticed.

Indeed, because a free market in space industries would be open to all competitors, we have every reason to expect technological innovation to be much quicker than in a monopolized space program.