Mises Daily

"Instead of buying up toxic assets, the TARP money was used to partially nationalize the banking industry."

Under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, the brief continues, the plaintiff is denied rights reserved to states under the Constitution, and specifically Blattner's right to make a living by feeding his own wheat to his chickens.

If the United States had an honest press and media, one committed to the principle of individual rights, their outrage would drive Anita Dunn out of Washington, D.C., just by hurling her words back at her.

"Social scientists should inform the public that our government is not necessarily benevolent"

"There is a growing body of disenfranchised and radicalized citizens who see the EU for what it is: a criminal organization bent on totalitarianism."

Economists demonstrate that the various measures of government interference with market phenomena do not produce the results aimed at by the governments resorting to them.

"Libertarianism is rejected by the modern Left — which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern Right — which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism."

Davidson seems oblivious to the fact that money has a purchasing power.

All conservative socialist systems — such as feudalism, monarchies, Nazism, and the Republican Party — lead to impoverishment just like social-democratic socialism.

we should jettison our fiat money system in favor of a gold or multicommodity-metal system (such as gold, platinum, silver, and copper). While we're at it, we should jettison fractional-reserve banking in favor of full-reserve banking.