Interventionism

A job seeker may not have the skill set that is worth $7/hour minimum wage. The minimum wage law keeps that individual from being employed.

In common usage, anyone who stores more of a good than their neighbors do is often viewed as a “hoarder.” A common example of hoarding is stocking up on durable grocery items. Historically, governments have frowned upon hoarding. What’s good for us is bad for them.

Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure: we are forced to play along with all they demand.

These programs have caused a massive diversion of savings into government consumption, not only by diverting taxes into current government spending, but also by undermining one of the most important motivations for private saving and investment.

Look up the phrase “a unique form of domestic terrorism” on a search engine and you will turn up a story about a man whom the US governmen

Social Security only persists because we have been conditioned to approach public-sector performance with lower expectations.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, with 1 in 100 people behind bars. The prison population in America equals that of the cities of Los Angeles and Miami combined. This is an egregious form of statism. It's time we stop ignoring this issue.

Professor Block is a handsome fellow. But he is not likely to appear on the catwalk anytime soon.

The illusion of wartime prosperity is rooted in how national income was calculated and in how the statistics were compiled.

Five months into the second round of quantitative easing — "QE2" — it is useful to take stock of what it has, and has not, accomplished. QE2 has begun to deliver on all the dangers of which the critics warned, but not the alleged benefits.