Big Government

Interviewed by hosts Steve Gruber and Jo Anne Paul, Mark Thornton talks about the intrusive nature of the state.

David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.

Fannie Mae’s journey started with a filing cabinet containing a few thousand mortgage notes christened as the nation’s “secondary mortgage market.”

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

Stockman makes clear that the facile left-right distinction of US politics obscures a deeper crisis of capitalism that spans the breadth of the American economic and political landscape

The real problem in our current regulated market is that due to government intervention in a cartelized tire industry, we now pay more for tires and there are fewer of them.

Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.

Taxes are not just wrong, they are destructive. It is highly questionable that private parties could not create goods and services that consumers want at higher quality and lower costs.

The myth of the fair tax is the myth of the just tax. Taxation is a coerced, not voluntary, exchange. It is false to say bureaucrats pay taxes. They consume taxes. They plunder. They are the tax eaters. The rest of us are tax payers.

Part of the Authors Forum, presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.