Free Markets

Mises was not only a dazzling economist and champion of liberty, but no Communist, nor Nazi, nor central banker could pressure him into doing the wrong thing

Nell says that Austrians are too often motivated—and constrained—by the search for free-market conclusions, leading them to neglect both the problems of unregulated markets and the promise of alternative forms of organization.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona.

Live broadcast of Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, William Boyes, and Charles Goyette in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nordic countries prospered in spite of the Scandinavian model, not because of it.

Jeff Deist and Charles Hugh Smith discuss our absurdly anti-market healthcare system.

I’ve noticed that the following Rothbard quote tends to circulate periodically amongst free-market groups:

To support free markets is to invite criticism on virtually every policy issue.

A real free trade agreement should be short and unilateral. It would then truly allow the market to bring about a pattern of international trade in line with the scarcity of resources and with entrepreneurial judgment about their most efficient international allocation. The TPP, on the other hand, was created to interfere with this pattern: to distort it for more political power or for more economic gain for some groups or others. It was created to take trade flows from the course prescribed by voluntary agreements and divert them into that prescribed by political agreements.