Topic: Free Markets

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government

You Buy From Other Consumers, Not From Producers

– November 15, 2022

“Attempts to ‘manage’ or ‘plan’ prices do nothing to address the real problem of scarcity, and often make scarcity worse. Price controls are a restriction on the ability of other consumers to have their needs met, and that’s just wrong.” ~ Michael Munger

Books, Capitalism, Free Markets, Government

Where Is the Free Market Utopia?

– November 14, 2022

“Philippon explains why we should embrace competition, and if more people do so after reading The Great Reversal, he will have done an important job.” ~ Art Carden

Free Markets, Government, Regulation

Biden Ignores the Fact That “Junk Fees” Aren’t Free

– November 10, 2022

“The economy is suffering enough under Biden’s overregulation, Congress’ overspending, and the Fed’s overprinting; the last thing it needs is another barrier to growth and organic competition.” ~ Vance Ginn

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government

When Equality Becomes Evil

– November 7, 2022

“This economic equality thing is parent to endless harm. When it’s just an idea, it’s nonsense. When it finds its way into public policy, it’s poison. Don’t drink it.” ~ Lawrence W. Reed

Free Markets, Government, Regulation

Ramping Up Government’s War on Savings

– October 30, 2022

“Truly addressing the savings problem doesn’t require more government involvement; it only requires that the government stop undermining our incentives to save in all the ways it does now.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Education, Free Markets, Government

Colleges: Go Back to Basics

– October 29, 2022

“We should rethink how we finance colleges and incentivize them to return to basics—emphasizing job one, teaching, and job two, doing worthwhile academic research.” ~ Richard K. Vedder

Classical Liberalism, Free Markets, Government, History

Liberalism, True and False

– October 27, 2022

“There was an underlying humility in the older classical liberalism that assumed that each person could better find his own way than to presume that political paternalists could make better decisions for them.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

Free Markets, Government, Regulation, Technology

As Meta Searches For the Future, Lina Khan Aims to Suffocate It

– October 26, 2022

“Whatever Meta discovers through its intrepid search for tomorrow, we’ll all be smarter for it having ventured a vision unlike the present. Too bad Lina Khan is so eager to blind us to the essential knowledge Meta is trying to create.” ~ John Tamny

Free Markets, Government, Regulation

Proposition 12, the Constitution, and Good Government

– October 25, 2022

“Proposition 12 not only oversteps California’s regulatory powers under the U.S. Constitution, it also violates the political principle that those who will be forced to abide by laws should have a voice in them.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government

Government Is Largely Guesswork

– October 24, 2022

“Unlike actions taken in markets, even the best government actions carried out in the most appropriate circumstances are guided by little more than guesswork.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Free Markets, Government, Regulation

Progressive Policies Destroy Capitalism’s Prosperity

– October 23, 2022

“To pull America away from the grips of a recession and the shackles of inflation, the government must get out of the way of the productive private sector.” ~ Vance Ginn

Free Markets, Government, Socialism

Industrial Policy on Parade

– October 23, 2022

“The fact that past industrial policy attempts were abandoned due to grotesque failure to achieve their goals seems to make no difference to those who are intent on reviving this practice.” ~ Veronique de Rugy