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FREE MARKET GEMS

Thank you, Ray Kroc . . . He may have been a jerk, but he was also the perfect object lesson in consumer-centered entrepreneurship. Combating bad ideas . . . is best done with good ideas. Criminalizing words just doesn’t … Continue reading

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FREE MARKET GEMS

Banks and Bitcoin . . . China appears to be embracing Bitcoin, but it’s all about control of the exchanges, not about a fondness for crypto-currency. Don’t punch that Nazi . . . Danish journalist Fleming Rose argues that the … Continue reading

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FREE MARKET GEMS

Strange bedfellows . . . The New Left and Libertarians have found agreement here: “that compulsory school attendance laws be abolished.” ~ Ralph Raico.  This speech was given in 1974, but its observations are coming full circle today. The consumer … Continue reading

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FREE MARKET GEMS

10 Economic Myths . . . brought to you by the bard himself (Rothbard, that is). Drawing the free-market line . . . Dr. Peter Jaworski discusses the limits of free markets. Here’s one guiding principle: if you can do … Continue reading

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FREE MARKET GEMS

Interest rates are low . . . maybe forever. So what’s the problem? asks the man on the street. The smart people at Mises have an answer for him. Freedom and the Civil Rights Movement . . . It wasn’t … Continue reading

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