Free Markets

Peter G. Klein discusses the demise of Blackberry and how the market, not regulators, should pick technology winners and losers.

 What are the benefits a country reaps from immigrants flowing in? Instead of lamenting immigrants we should be welcoming them. The immigration debate, whether it occurs in Saudi Arabia, the United States, or even Canada, really boils down to answering a simple question: Do we want
    to import workers or goods?

Defending liberty requires seeing the unseen good that can only be accomplished by freeing people’s ability to peacefully create and innovate.
 

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Mark Thornton discusses economics from the Austrian perspective.

Those who condemn the free market take for granted that the present order of things is the free market in action.

Peter G. Klein presents a Misesian commentary on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's recent decision against tapering the Fed's ongoing quantitative easing scheme.

Mainstream economics remains wedded to using data as an end in itself, such that the availability of data alone often determines the extent of economic inquiry.

Trade is in its nature free, finds its own channel, and best directs its own course.

What is anarchism? Free markets cannot exist without the state or the state is the greatest enemy of free markets.

What might the people of Detroit achieve if regulatory barriers to productive work were eliminated?