Free Markets

Forcing AI companies to provide their own power doesn’t get at the root of the issue, which is that the resources we use to generate electricity are scarce.

Trump sells tariffs as “freedom,” but they’re just another tax punishing consumers, fueling chaos, and expanding state power.

Even though freedom produces a better and wealthier society, people—and especially elites—have an aversion to it. Their fears, while rational, are also harmful to society.

Dr. Keith Smith recounts how the Surgery Center of Oklahoma and the Free Market Medical Association are exposing the hospital–insurance cartel—posting honest, bundled prices, triggering price wars, and proving that free-market medicine can deliver higher quality care at a fraction of the cost.

Dr. Timothy Terrell explains how entrepreneurs and property rights can protect forests, wildlife, and open spaces better than bureaucracies, using real-world examples of “enviropreneurs” who profit by conserving nature instead of exploiting it.

Recently, the United States military captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

While Brazil calls itself a constitutional democracy that has a market economy, private property and markets themselves are subject to conditions set by the government itself.

Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

Ultimately, eliminating tariffs is a submission to a fundamental truth: the wealth of a nation does not come from stifling global trade.