Free Markets

In a free society, Mr. Grushevski has every right to be entrepreneurial and to start a restaurant that only hires men who want to serve food in tank tops and shorts.

Credit expansion is what creates a delusion of prosperity while it lasts and economic depression when it ends. It is all that needs to be stopped to end the boom-bust cycle.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on January 17, 1995 in Auburn, Alabama.

Interviewed by Michael Beitler on the “Free Markets” internet radio program; 5 February 2009.

Just as "war is too important to be left to the generals," accounting is too vital for the economy and everyone's finances to have been left to the experts.

In the case of downloads, the great hunt promises to cripple the Internet. And HADOPI is only one of the state's tentacles.

The Marxians, Keynesians, Veblenians, and other "progressives" know very well that their doctrines cannot stand any critical analysis.

The way out of this mess is freedom.

"These false prophets of capitalism are the greatest friends that proponents of socialism have."

The costs of the persecution of bingo operators are not limited to the financial burden on taxpayers but also include loss of individual liberty and the unintended consequences, which are difficult to quantify. Citizens, no matter how rich or poor, have the right to make bad decisions.