Free Markets

"Two things you do know, and no more: First, that they exist; second, that they will find you. Except for these two certainties, working for the Remnant means working in impenetrable darkness."

"On the whole, removing the power of the state from economics has improved the lives of former communist citizens."

What is the right response to a recession? The first rule must be to do no harm.

"There is no aspect of the free-market economy that has suffered more scorn and contempt from 'modern' economists, whether frankly statist Keynesians or allegedly 'free market' Chicagoites, than has gold."

They do it because they can. We fight for liberty because we must. No one else will do it for us.

The only real answer here is to let the free market rule, which is another way of saying that people should be free to come to their own negotiations about the prices they are willing to pay or accept for this and that.

They tell us how much better off economically we all are in war than in peace.

Stuey,The Kid, had won approximately $30 million in his lifetime, but died with only $800 in his pocket and the clothes on his back.

"The rationality, the effectiveness, and the justice of public policy which taxes enterprise according to one assumption while it gears, say, profit-incentive policies to its opposite is at least dubious."

This situation is not, however, a natural market phenomenon, but the direct result of various government programs — usually in the world's most developed economies, although developing countries are catching up — that aim to promote more environmentally friendly energy technology or energy self-sufficiency by subsidizing and mandating the diversion of a growing percentage of agricultural commodities such as corn, sugar cane, wheat, and so on, to the production of bioethanol and biodiesel.