Big Government

Unfortunately, welfarist ideas are still careening down the highway with as much dangerous momentum as was the case when Röpke was still alive.

Government jobs offer no opportunity for the display of personal talents and gifts.

Given that the official House version of Obama’s healthcare plan, HR 3962, has now passed, a close examination of the effects of “Obamacare” on the labor market is important.

This is a comment on communism in general, on communists in the political establishment, and on Saul of Tarsus.

"The central bank enters the negotiation between saver and borrower, and by counterfeiting money it destroys the negotiating base of the saver."

Rather than plunging the taxpayers even deeper into debt, the government would do well to cut its own spending and return resources to private hands. Only then can true economic recovery begin.

Every government intervention creates new problems in the course of vain attempts to solve the old.

Insurance regulation in the United States is not working because it makes insurance a static, uncreative and boring business.

Eventually, every aspect of productive life will be so controlled that capitalist drive and ingenuity will become relics of the past.

Unfortunately, central bankers and central planners believe these statistics have relevance, justifying their interference with businesses and making us all poorer in the process — no matter what the numbers are.