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Fred Buzzeo

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

Douglas French

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.

Frank Shostak

"The reason why inflation is bad news is not because of increases in prices as such, but because of the damage inflation inflicts to the wealth-formation process."

Mario J. Rizzo

So Keynes enables Posner to throw off the shackles of rational choice almost completely.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

This is old-fashioned redistribution, to sustain the unsustainable.

Gary Galles

That is why it is actually government "solutions" that increase the influence of greedy bastards in society. After all, "greedy bastard" is an excellent description of someone who demands power over others without cost or their willing consent; and falsely blames others to gain it.

Murray N. Rothbard

The mathematical economists are therefore framing assumptions which are admittedly false or partly false, but which they hope can serve as useful approximations, as they would in physics. The important thing is not to be intimidated by the mathematical trappings.

Frank Shostak

Central bank's and government's loose monetary and fiscal policies are instrumental in the weakening of the process of real savings formation through the diversion of real savings from wealth generators to non-wealth-generating activities.

Mark Thornton

"The key thing is that the price of producer goods has to fall faster and farther than consumer goods for the correction process to proceed."

Robert P. Murphy

Wall Street — especially since this financial crisis began — has been anything but a bastion of laissez-faire capitalism.