Free Markets

Any government intervention in the economy, such as, loan programs, regulations, and subsidies, creates malinvestments.

Government intervention in health care has driven up health care prices. Mainstream journalists choose to focus on profits and “greed” as the problem.

The first-ever libertarians were the Levellers, an English political movement active in the seventeenth century.

Peter Klein discusses who should make the decisions to best allocate scarce resources and time.

One of the organizers of the Venetian referendum on secession speaks about the vote and the prospects for successful separation.

Ludwig von Mises was asked to respond to the question: "Are the interests of the American wage earners in conflict with those of their employers, or are the two in agreement?" 

One of Carl Menger’s contributions was his primacy of the consumer in determining value and price, not only in the marketplace but in all economic

Genuine competition can serve as the only real “limit” on state power.

Mark Thornton discusses Martin Wolf's recent claim that "cautious savers no longer serve a useful economic purpose".