Profiles

In the case of both athlete and teacher, the rarity of the skill and the number of people who benefit from the individual determines how much they're paid.

Copper and nickel have a high dollar price because the dollar is rapidly losing its value, not because copper is scarce.

We do know, however, that free people are better able to adapt and prosper than unfree people, in whatever situation the future holds.

Turning to government for protection and support is stealing money from the pockets of everyone else. Farm programs, including the 2007 Farm Bill, need to be thrown in the dust bin of history, where they belonged eighty years ago.

Economic freedom in fact reduces unemployment to levels significantly below those in less free countries. The Amish may hold the secret to full employment, but rejection of modern capitalism is full employment in poverty and hardship, not the rich fruits of progress.