The Marketplace They Loathe

10/14/2005 Mises Wire Christopher Westley

The marketplace is a wonderful place, writes Chris Westley, except when it’s MarketPlace, that public radio program that airs mornings and evenings in the United States. It’s a reliable source of economic fallacy, state celebration, and anti-commercial bias. Since there is no shortage of privately provided business media in print, radio, and television, why must government fund MarketPlace? FULL ARTICLE

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