Interventionism

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Frank Shostak

Economic mythology said governments must regulate markets to prevent monopolies. In reality, it is the government regulation itself that creates monopolies, which do not emerge in free markets.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

If we could abolish public schools and compulsory schooling laws, we would have better schools at half the price—and be freer too.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

While capitalism gives rise to prosperity and freedom, the state thrives on an economically ignorant public.

Jonathan Newman

Reich, Elizabeth Warren, and other leftists never address the root cause of what they correctly diagnose as excessive corporate power: the Federal Reserve.

Christopher E. Baecker

The current explosion in rental and home prices is the direct result of government intervention aimed at making it easier to buy a house. Mises wrote that government intervention into the market tends to make things worse. He was right.

Kevin Van Elswyk

While President Biden’s inflationary economy continues to falter, the president proposes to outlaw bank overdraft fees, ostensibly to help lower-income Americans. Bank fees, however, are not the biggest threat consumers face; inflation and intervention are the real threats.

Ludwig von Mises

If one does not stop in time the pernicious policy of increasing the quantity of money and fiduciary media, the nation's currency system collapses entirely.