Free Markets

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Wendy McElroy
In common usage, anyone who stores more of a good than their neighbors do is often viewed as a “hoarder.” A common example of hoarding is stocking up on durable grocery items. Historically, governments have frowned upon hoarding. What’s good for us is bad for them.
Robert P. Murphy

With insurance the client pays a small amount of money (the premium) in exchange for a more certain future, in which his wealth will not fluctuate as wildly in different possible scenarios.

George Reisman

These programs have caused a massive diversion of savings into government consumption, not only by diverting taxes into current government spending, but also by undermining one of the most important motivations for private saving and investment.

Wendy McElroy
It is a natural and healthy reaction to a politically created economic downturn that has devastated the stability of so many families.
Ludwig von Mises

In the U.S., an almost unsurmountable gulf separates "society" from the intellectuals.

Robert P. Murphy

NotHaus made it easy for the government to prosecute him, but the message is still clear: no competition with the dollar.

Gene Epstein

It was nearly 40 years ago that Murray Rothbard changed my life. I was then a PhD candidate in economics at the New School for Social Research in downtown Manhattan, while also teaching principles courses at a local university. And I was rapidly losing interest in the whole subject.

Stefano R. Mugnaini

They think they are doing battle with capitalism and corporate greed; I say it is a pure and beautiful example of a market exchange.