Free Markets

When a city is bombed, it is destroyed by people with evil intentions. When a city is subjected to rent control, it is destroyed by people with good intentions.

Unlike mass-minded persons who are easily manipulated and mobilized in service to various institutional causes, the Remnant remain skeptical of proselytizers who seek converts to ideologies, or who desire to save mankind.

A thief is a thief, and all thieves impoverish their victims.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

When Hunt asks my help, I will be sparing of it, and when he does something on his own, I will try to encourage him, to help him associate self-reliance with joy.

By such indirection does the desire for liberty grow.

As a result of his misunderstanding of economic theory, the Pope failed to see the connection between every depression we have experienced in modern times and governments' intervening in the free market — the very system that, if left free of distributive-justice actions on the part of governments, would guarantee the attainment of the common good.

But there are a few great voices left, and others not so great that are still telling the truth, and these the individual may amplify prodigiously.

These transactions do suggest, however, that many aspects of labor market regulation may be unneeded.

There's no such thing as a free search. But there are a group of professionals out there driving the price as low as possible, and they certainly earn my admiration.