Free Markets

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Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.

Every intervention backfires. The market's quiet genius is why.

A price is never just a price—and Washington keeps distorting it.

Why these are speeches, not a treatise—and why that matters.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains the neglected role of insurance in a free market economy. Any insurance involves the pooling of individual risks by the market, a task the state can only distort.

Of all accusations against the system of Free Trade and Private Property, wrote Ludwig von Mises, none is more foolish than the statement that it is anti-social and individualistic and that it atomizes the body social.

Paul Craig Roberts's latest article, writes Robert Murphy, issues the direst warnings and hurls the strongest insults yet. 

So those scurvy bums at Wal-Mart are finally getting what is coming to them!

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Robert Karl Mertin at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, January 11, 2006.