Interventionism

Merely increasing demand does not increase production or produce wealth.

Any government intervention in the economy, such as, loan programs, regulations, and subsidies, creates malinvestments.

Government intervention in health care has driven up health care prices. Mainstream journalists choose to focus on profits and “greed” as the problem.

Inflation puts a brake on social mobility: the rich stay rich (longer) and the poor stay poor (longer) than they would in a free society.

Easy money policy hurts most people, particularly workers and savers, and redistributes their wealth to the ruling elites, writes Mark Thornton.

Peter Klein discusses who should make the decisions to best allocate scarce resources and time.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses the failed War on Drugs, and the current state of the U.S. economy.

When governments spend, regulate, and tax, they decrease household take-home pay while diverting savings and investment to the government class.

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses gun control in the early days of Nazi Germany.

Canadian agricultural policy today subsidizes and controls markets in grain, dairy, and other products to ensure profitability.