Free Markets

Tax gatherer: "You have secured twenty tuns of wine? Have the goodness to deliver up to me six of the best." Vintner: "Good Heaven! you are going to ruin me."

 President Obama's recent re-election bid included considerable pandering to women voters, including the so-called equal-pay-for-equal-work campaign.

What we have in mind when we talk about interventionism is the government's desire to do more than prevent assaults and fraud.

The argument over gold is a replay of the arguments of Adam Smith against the arguments of the mercantilists.

If outcry is preferred to argument, let us vociferate, "King Midas has a snout, and asses' ears."

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.