Other Schools of Thought

Tom Woods, guest host of “The Peter Schiff Show,” interviews Peter Klein, who discusses how the anti-Apartheid movement, Mandela includ

A paper currency system contains the seeds of its own destruction. The temptation for the monopolist money producer to increase the supply is almost irresistible. A drastic reduction of government spending and deficits is not very likely either, given the incentives for politicians in democracies. So what is to come?

The only way to provide good medical services at a reasonable cost is to bring back market pricing. We need the market not only to get supply and demand back into balance, but also to decide what exactly will be supplied. When was the last time that anyone saw a normal market price in medicine?

The focus of Dallas Buyers Club is on the crony-capitalist relationship that exists among the American health care system, the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA. The monopoly power that results from this union is used to stifle a person’s right to consume what he wants and treat himself as he sees fit.

At the heart of fascism lies state control of the economy. Mises found this in Nazism, and, it is prevalent in America today.

Voltaire once said, “Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value — zero.”

Venezuela illustrates Mises’s argument that economic intervention, if unchecked, leads to socialism.
 

A few days after the victory of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina the government imposed foreign exchange controls.

The Obama administration inserted language into the 2012 fiscal cliff bill that enabled GE to avoid paying much federal income tax.

The snags with healthcare.gov are merely a sideshow; the true problems with ObamaCare run much deeper than a malfunctioning website.