Free Markets

The NYTimes has a fascinating article about the obstacles confronting t

So does Schiff truly think the "unsustainable" deficit will break this year, or does he really just want you to buy his book on the coming crash?

This means that employment among the young, the inexperienced, and unskilled will decline with the institution of a higher minimum wage.

It is fairly obvious that the caretakers of the Hemingway Home are more interested in the welfare of these cats, and that the consuming public supports this enterprise. USDA harassment of the Hemingway Cats is an example of bureaucratic excess.

On behalf of all the thousands of consumers of publicly owned, government regulated, monopolistic utility companies from Texas to Oklahoma and Miss

But don't push for a system that would deny producers the right to persuade others, and don't deny others the right to make a choice for themselves.

What's truly ironic is that this alleged benefit is reduced when the government forces every business to raise wages.

People voting for the minimum wage indulge a fantasy that they are helping the hard-working down-on-his-luck adult minimum-wage earner who is struggling to support a family. Instead they are preventing the sweet, earnest but maybe-a-little slow kid living down the block from getting that first job, because his output does not reach the economic level required by a wage that government has set too high.

Why does it always have to be California? New York? Massachusetts?

The individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.