Free Markets
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Can We Have Scarcity but Reject the “Scarcity Mindset?” In a Word, No
Progressives claim that while they might acknowledge the presence of scarcity, nonetheless, we can reject a "scarcity mindset" because governments can order an end to scarcity through fiat.
Myth versus Ideology: Why Free Market Thinking Is Nonideological
Austrian economists often are labeled ideologues for advocating for free markets, yet socialism requires the ideological blinders.
Federal Reserve Tampering with Interest Rates Distorts the Shape of the Yield Curve
In a free market, short-term and long-term rates would move toward convergence. Fed interference with interest rates ensures that won't happen.
Slavery Did Not Promote Capitalism: The New Economic History of Capitalism Is Simply Wrong
Academic historians of the "acclaimed" new history of capitalism have a major weakness: their claims do not match the historical record.
A Cliché of Socialism: Under Public Ownership, We the People Own it!
Proponents of socialism claim that it promotes ownership "by the people." Yet the people that actually control resources and production are not the same people who allegedly are the "rightful owners" in society
Genuine Recovery Is Up to Investors, Producers, and Consumer Choice
Recovery is genuine only when it reaches the masses of individuals. And recovery comes only from the actions of individuals acting in a free market.
Unscrambling Socialism from Our Economic Order: Wisdom from Leonard Read
Leonard Read had much to say about how socialism already was entangled in our economic and social order.
Genuine Recovery Is Up to Investors, Producers, and Consumer Choice
Recovery is genuine only when it reaches the masses of individuals. And recovery comes only from the actions of individuals acting in a free market.
The Other Immigration Question: Should People from Wealthy Countries Migrate to Poorer Ones?
While people from poor countries seek to live in places like the USA because of its stable institutions and welfare state, could migration of people from stable countries to less-developed ones make those countries better off?
