The “People’s Car” was beloved by the socialist Left, but the new beetle is a masterful product of labor specialization and capitalist engineering.

People’s complaints about the rising price of drugs are both mistaken (no, more government controls won’t help) and justified (patents do indeed restrict competition)

Contrary to the propaganda, the EPA has done little or nothing to improve the quality of life and much to diminish it.

It’s not the high costs to the bank that explain why fast cash is pricey. These fees are simply a market price for a service that is highly in demand.

How statism pollutes our language in ways we don’t always recognize. This is Walter Block’s third essay in a great series on this topic.

Consider the relative tax bite affecting rich and poor: it is the people earning the highest income who pay the bills from government.

The meltdown on Wall Street can’t be corrected through intervention; if it is headed down further, it needs to run its course.

The American founders struggled for liberty against grasping government officials. But the despotism of their day was nothing compared with our own.

Reich, Gore, and McCain warn that keeping more wealth in private hands would threaten prosperity. This claim is absurd.

Judge Jackson’s reasoning is fatally flawed, says Dominick T. Armentano. Microsoft has a dominant position in a narrowly defined relevant market, but no meaningful monopoly and no output restricting monopoly power.