Free Markets

Americans have more housing choices than ever before, thanks to the automobile and modern communications. The regulators are fit to be tied, says William Anderson. 

A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.

The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.

The new campaign to impose vacations as a mandated benefit, promoted by Escape Magazine,  rests on economic fallacy. 

Why neoclassical economists are wrong to stop short of calling for the full repeal of antitrust. 

Fifteen years ago, Murray N. Rothbard wrote a piece on the most prevalent economic errors of that time. What are the great economic errors alive today?

People's complaints about the rising price of drugs are both mistaken (no, more government controls won't help) and justified (patents do indeed restrict competition)

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.