Free Markets

It was not the banks as such that caused the crisis but rather the boom-bust policies of the central banks of Ireland and Iceland.

Will anyone undertake to affirm that fire has become a greater evil since the introduction of insurance?

A business-hostile administration will provoke more apprehension than a business-friendlier administration.

A magnificent canal united two large towns in China. The emperor thought fit to order enormous blocks of stone to be thrown in to render it useless.

The author's intention to promote private enterprise in space is appreciated, but The Privatization of Space Exploration falls short in places. 

The Dutch West India Company began operations in 1623, and in the same year the first party of permanent Dutch settlers landed in Manhattan.

In a society in which economic law was widely understood, those who sought to prevent price gouging would be regarded as public enemies.

The people of Colorado and Washington voiced their opposition to the federal government's policy of marijuana prohibition.

What is ultimately desired is a return to a market-chosen money — gold or silver money, not a gold- or silver-"backed" money.

Marx not only sought a future society that would put an end to history: he claimed to have found the path toward that utopia.