Governments take valuable things like paper and minerals, stamp something on them, and call them money, in the process rendering these things almost worthless. Something is wrong with this picture.

Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners.

Both progressives and conservatives show a complete unwillingness or inability to distinguish between those who got rich by genuinely creating value by serving others and those who are getting rich by expropriating wealth through force.

Political power over markets doesn’t just corrupt individuals—it corrupts the price system itself.