Free Markets

Contrary to the propaganda, the EPA has done little or nothing to improve the quality of life and much to diminish it. 

It's not the high costs to the bank that explain why fast cash is pricey. These fees are simply a market price for a service that is highly in demand.

Walter Block decries statists who distort the meaning of words, and also those who kowtow to their politically correct agenda.

Greenspan recently said he is not sure what the money supply is. But money is like any commodity: it has a supply and it can be counted.

The Gore and Bradley plans to "fix" health care will do nothing of the sort. Neither addresses the key problem of the current system.

From the 1930s through the 1980s, government claimed it could innovate better than private markets. That' s what the boondoggles like TVA, Nasa, and Semitech were all about. Hardly anyone believes that anymore, so the rationale for government regulation of technology has changed. It now concerns such vagaries as fairness and wise resource use.

The Clinton administration wasn't content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web.

Economic development requires participation in the international division of labor, writes Christopher Mayer.  

Thank goodness this bloody century, the era of communism, national socialism, fascism, and central planning-in short, the century of government worship-is coming to an end. May we use the occasion to re-pledge our allegiance to human freedom, which is the basis of prosperity and civilization itself, and to repudiate every ideological force that opposes it.

During the 1980s, just as the free market's reputation was beginning to rebound, the guardians of the national psyche discovered "workaholism." The victim of this disorder was defined as working compulsively, spending far too much time at his occupation, too little with friends or loved ones. He loses the capacity to enjoy what little leisure he allows himself, and eventually cannot even recall the point of his own frenetic activity. We were all advised to ease up, slow down, and smell the roses.