Interventionism

Pages 730-735. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach. 

Pages 712-719. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

Ironically, you would think that a film called Broke: The New American Dream would be pessimistic and depressing, while a film called Capitalism: A Love Story would be upbeat and positive. The opposite is true.

"Government intervention in the housing market leads to further and further intervention."

That is why it is actually government "solutions" that increase the influence of greedy bastards in society. After all, "greedy bastard" is an excellent description of someone who demands power over others without cost or their willing consent; and falsely blames others to gain it.

It is neither the job of government nor the business of any individual to prohibit, regulate, restrict, or otherwise control what a man desires to eat, drink, smoke, inject, absorb, snort, sniff, inhale, swallow, or otherwise ingest into his body.

Mr. Chodorov sees history as an eternal struggle between social-power and political-power philosophies.

"The idea that we must choose between public healthcare and politicized-private healthcare is false. We can also move to depoliticize the healthcare industry."

Rothbard has succeeded in sustaining what remains of the postmeltdown high-tech and information sectors, albeit in India and China.

The appropriate policy is not to strengthen labor standards but to open borders and allow people to cross them freely.