Free Markets

Mary Anastasia O’Grady has written

Free — no matter where it comes from — can help sell.

Rather, the real dream has always been to protect wealth from the evils of inflation, and the middle-class housing market generally served that purpose. Housing was the middle class's best hedge against a growing government intent on expanding its scope and power by inflating the money supply. Today, housing looks like a relatively weaker hedge, and if this trend continues, middle-class wage earners will have to find better assets in which to store the brunt of their wealth.

It is capitalism that has created in reality all that the socialists of old imagined their revolution would achieve.

While the free market has been able to address the needs of the consumers of ice time, a government solution would have harmed local residents, and ice consumers and their chosen sports. All area residents would be taxed for the benefit of the few who enjoy the sound of sharp metal slicing through ice, and we — the lovers of ice — would suffer due to the whims of the government bozos who know nothing about, nor even care about, sports on ice.

Statism resounds in the last two paragraphs of

For Rothbard, the Articles of Confederation were not, contrary to most historians, an overly weak arrangement that needed to be replaced by the more centrally focused Constitution. Quite the contrary, the Articles themselves allowed too much central control.

Only by having a market can there be a sane profit-loss policy. If we love nature and want to preserve it, true property rights are needed.

There is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one's property from invasion.

The absolute right to run away is the child's ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.