free markets

Health care is a component of modern prosperity, which must be continually created.

There is far more in the world that successfully manages and “regulates” itself without the controlling hand of the government than many of us pause to reflect on or understand. 

People respond to incentives. This is the case regardless of how the politico-economic system in which we live and work is structured.

At a time when the appeal of and demands for a new “democratic” socialism seem to have caught the imagination of many among the young.

There is a growing legislative movement – yes, elected politicians are always looking for something to do – to create and enforce a “right to repair” your stuff.

Bad economics can bring about or grow out of bad politics. But the question is, what are bad economics and bad politics?

Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest problem in our system is that we pay on a fee-for-service basis. Almost everyone is wrong.

For more than two hundred years, practically all of even the most free market advocates have assumed that money and banking were different from other types of goods and markets.

How did Karl Marx become this advocate of mass murder and dictatorship in place of liberal democracy and social peace?

The prevailing political discourse seems to be consumed with the bromides of social justice, carefully tended by political and intellectual classes claiming special knowledge of its demands.

Just how overregulated are America’s banks?

Scotland would seem a strange place for the emergence of center of intellectual development that would influence the stream of ideas throughout the world. Scotland had been unified with England near the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was considered a “backwater” of European civilization.

A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.