Interventionism

While pop and rock hits were attracting pirates, the same methods were available to aficionados of opera, classical, jazz, and show music.

The imposition of new taxes shifts wages and prices in ways that are impossible to predict beforehand and difficult to measure even after the fact.

While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?

Presented by Tom DiLorenzo at the Mises Circle in New Orleans, 5 November 2011.

They keep trying and trying with ever-worse results. There is no middle way to solve the housing crisis. The real help for underwater homeowners will only arrive when Fannie, Freddie, and the rest are allowed to fail.

Many have misdirected their anger toward illegal immigrants or the businesses that hire them. Their outrage should be aimed at the state.

The government creates a demand for these services out of thin air: the existence of ambassadors is what leads to the work done by ambassadors. They do not take their services to market to sell them to anyone who happens to be a willing buyer.