Jeffrey Tucker Quotes

The free market is not a system. It is not a policy dictated by anyone in particular. It is not something that Washington implements. It does not exist in any legislation, law, bill, regulation, or bo...

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the populati...

About Author

Jeffrey Albert Tucker (born December 19, 1963) is an American libertarian writer, publisher, entrepreneur and advocate of anarcho-capitalism and Bitcoin.
He worked for Ron Paul, the Mises Institute, and LewRockwell.com for many years. Beginning in 2020, he organized efforts against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and in 2021 he founded the Brownstone Institute think tank to continue such efforts.
As of 2021, he is Chief Liberty Officer (CLO) of Liberty.me. He is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of the Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technogy, and an Acton Institute associate.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Government is a gang, but not merely as meritorious as a private gang because it claims legal legitimacy. It pillages and uses violence but under the cover of law, and seeks legitimacy not through com...

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look...

Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little le...

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a...

Liberty is not about class war, income war, race war, national war, a war between the sexes, or any other conflict apart from the core conflict between individuals and those who would seek power and c...

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

The problems in every country are the same. Bureaucracy is strangling innovation. Overgrown political sectors are sucking away resources that could otherwise lead to growth. Regulations and taxes are...