Interventionism

Greg Beck from the Consumer Law & Policy Blog:

Since we know the monstrosities associated with government buildings, monuments, and state-built cars, surely then, we can imagine a Europe with a

Contrast our world with that of the political class. Here, scarcity is nonexistent. While my wife and I struggled over whether or not we could commit financial resources, the politician simply commits our resources for us. No questions asked.

Yes, conclude Boston University Law School Professors (and economists) Michael Meurer and Jim Bessen.

The free market could deal more effectively with contagious diseases, just as it beats the government when it comes to computers, cars, and crops.

A debate between Dr. Walter Block and Dr. Boyd Blundell at the Loyola Economics Club at Loyola University, New Orleans, in 2007.

My article here elicited more correspondence than any in memory.

New Yorkers refuse to believe that they are losing their place as the center of the financial world.

From the Times:

Fannie Mae is representative of all that's wrong with central planning institutions: it is a government-created conduit for carefully crafted financial and market socialism that the bureaucrats uphold for the purpose of propping up their fantasies for pandemic social engineering.