Post Archive by Month

Below you'll find a list of all posts from September, 2017

Economic Ideas: Frédéric Bastiat on the Law of Liberty and Free Markets

by Richard Ebeling Image of Bastiat compliments of FEE.org The defense of economic liberty has never been an easy task. …

Government doesn’t create jobs—it kills them

by Jaana Woiceshyn Many politicians have the delusion that government can create jobs (the ultra-delusional among them is Hillary Clinton, …

Ludwig von Mises and the Real Meaning of Liberalism

Summary “Liberalism” is one of the most misused and abused political terms in the American lexicon, sometimes taken to mean …

Lecture: Dr. Peter Leeson on ”“WTF?! An Economic Tour Of The Weird”

Join The Nassau Institute at The University of The Bahamas Tuesday, October 3, 2017 for a lecture by Peter Leeson …

Moral virtues of business success: Lessons from Madoff

by Jaana Woiceshyn Earlier this year, the infamous pyramid investment king Bernie Madoff was testifying in court, in conjunction with …

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place fund with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.