Logan Albright is Director of Fiscal Research at Capital Policy Analytics, Research Analyst for Freedom Works, and a contributing editor for Mises Canada. He lives in Washington, DC.
The neo-mercantilist Export-Import Bank is being pushed with bipartisan support yet again. We’re being told that the Ex-Im Bank is good for private enterprise. It’s no doubt good for some private companies, but there’s a difference between private enterprise and free enterprise.
If we want to lower the cost of health care, we should seek to increase the availability of health care services, including increases in trained medical personnel. Government, however, acts repeatedly to prevent the entry of more doctors into the marketplace.
This article is also available as an Audio Mises Daily One area where many otherwise-correct free-market thinkers and libertarians stumble is in the area of right-to-work laws, now gaining...
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