Free Markets

When you speak, you act; and action implies taking control of one's own body with the underlying idea of private property.

 

His radically antiwar views on the eve of the US government’s intervention in World War I got him fired from the New Republic. He stuck to his principles and produced some of the best antiwar and antistate writings of the 20th century. Bourne speaks to us today.

This libertarian classic imagines a totally free society — one with no government intrusion whatsoever.

The meltdown of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 didn't begin the crisis; it was a model of how all troubled firms should have been handled. Had this policy been followed from the beginning, I have little doubt that the downturn would already be over and we would not have added to the debt problem.

In any given context, the state is either unnecessary or impossible.

In the 73 years since the passage of the FLSA, the federal minimum wage has been increased 28 times and decreased only once (in 1963).

 After decades of strict laws regulating when stores can open and close in Germany,  the laws are progressively liberalizing.

What they were interested in was a collection of issues that included the right to own gold and the abolition of the military draft.

Most people tend to gravitate toward liberty — they just have not heard it properly defined.

The deficit-hawk politicians are right when they say the government should be sharing in the belt-tightening along with everyone else. Slashing spending at the federal level would return much-needed resources to the private sector, where they would do the most good.