Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government. That is, libertarians believe that murder is murder and does not become sanctified...
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the ci...
War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.
In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time.It is time for a new beginning.
It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no lim...
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.
People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.
The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is...
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may h...
The first people to get the new money are the counterfeiters, which they use to buy various goods and services. The second receivers of the new money are the retailers who sell those goods to the coun...
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
Without anarchy, there would be chaos.
If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.
Freedom is the foundation for all wonderful things in life.
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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...
In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.
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