January 12, 2023 – Connor O’Keeffe …… Relatively free trade and capital mobilization have greatly raised living standards in recent years. Yet those that call themselves globalists are less interested in trade than in unipolar political power, pushing violent, disastrous schemes.
September 22, 2022 – Gary Galles …… Despite the decree from the federal government that labor is not a “commodity” or an “article of commerce,” Leonard Read knew better.
May 16, 2022 – Ryan McMaken …… With the shortage have come the usual half-baked bromides about “evil corporations” and how they aren’t regulated enough. The real fault lies with welfare statists, Trump-style protectionists, and the FDA.
April 25, 2022 – Jon Miltimore …… Forcing companies to purchase goods at higher prices isn’t a path to economic prosperity.
November 4, 2021 – Mark Thornton …… New tech shows some light at the end of the tunnel. But for decades, government bans on a market for human organs has condemned millions of people to early deaths and immense pain.
October 27, 2021 – Robert E. Wright …… The Woke need to wake up, look, and listen. America doesn’t want New Zealand’s criminalization of Covid but it should adopt its decriminalization of sex work, including outright prostitution.
July 4, 2021 – Lawrence W. Reed …… Banning the transport of stuff that people desire is much easier said than done and may well produce more victims than the stuff itself.
October 16, 2020 – Kerry McDonald …… Free-market capitalism is the greatest generator of personal and economic freedom, prosperity, and progress the world has ever known.
February 25, 2020 – Rob York …… When the state could no longer feed them, freedom of exchange helped them feed themselves.
February 10, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Experts who predicted economic doom as Brexit approached obsessed over the problem of “transaction costs” in trade. But the EU was imposing countless new transaction costs of its own.