Showing posts with label free markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free markets. Show all posts
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Quote of the Day: The Difference between Marketists and Statists

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At the Cafe Hayek , Professor Don Boudreaux differentiates free marketers "marketists" and collectivists "statists" ...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How Free Trade Promoted Peace in Mindanao

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It is refreshing to read about anecdotes of how the largely unappreciated free markets works unnoticeably in the P hi lippine setting ...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Video: Miltion Friedman on the Difference Between Pro Free Enterprise from Pro Business

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Associating capitalism or free markets with pro-business agenda remains a popular or common misperception, which the late illustrious Nobel...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Video: I, The Pencil: The Movie

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Fantastic remake of Leonard R ead's "I, the Pencil" produced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute  [hat tip Prof Stev...
Sunday, September 30, 2012

Quote of the Day: Better Regulation Means Regulation by Markets Forces

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No stock market commentary for this week We do need better regulation. But what does that mean? Once we understand the nature of markets...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Free Market is in Full Harmony with the Principles of Christianity

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I am a very staunch believer that free-market principles are in full harmony with Christian principles and that the free market is the on...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Video: The Difference between Free Markets and Pro-Business Policies

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Free markets or laissez faire capitalism has frequently been mistaken as being "pro-business" In the following video from LearnLib...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

China’s Blossoming Peer to Peer Credit Industry

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More proof that markets abhor a vacuum. While we seem to be getting mixed signals about the real credit conditions in China , where I susp...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Market Does NOT Ration

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The market was never set up by people to achieve a purpose. It is not a device or an invention aimed at satisfying an intention. “Market ...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Secret of the US Shale Gas Revolution: Free Markets

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From the Wall Street Journal editorial (hat tip Prof Mark Perry) [bold emphasis added] The U.S. ranked 159th in GDP growth last year. ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Video: How Cronyism Hurts the Economy

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Another insightful video from LearnLiberty.org Here is their summary : It is clear big businesses wield great control over the federal gover...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Steve Forbes on How to Bring Back America

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Media mogul Steve Forbes of the Forbes magazine recently interviewed by the Hera Research Newsletter gives his prescription for the restora...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Quote of the Day: Factual Free Market Fairness

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The free market is an ethical system better than all the rest Professor Deirdre McCloskey makes a compellingly superb argument at the Blee...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Quote of the Day: An Inevitable Unity to Market Phenomena

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And it was realized that there is an inevitable unity to market phenomena that even power cannot undermine. It was discovered that in th...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Moral Case of Free Markets: Achievement

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The lesson is that defenders of free enterprise have to put less weight on happiness. Sure, happiness is one good thing. But so is achi...

Economics in a War Prison Camp

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It is said that nature abhors a vacuum. And since people are part of nature then obviously the human community also abhors a state of vacuum...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Quote of the Day: Unintended Consequences of Regulations

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Unregulated, a business’s reputation is its most valuable asset. A regulated business does not have the same problem, so long as it obeys...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Key Thing Poor Countries Should Do

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In a eulogy to Sir John James Cowperthwaite, a British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971, the quebec...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Video: The Economics of Valentine's Day

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In the following video, Professor Chris Coyne explains (via Learnliberty.org) the importance of Valentine's Day as a product of free mar...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Canada Deepens Free Market Policies

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It’s time to be bullish Canada. H ere is why. From Reuters (hat tip Mark Perry) Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Sunda...