As economists repeatedly note, rising prices are unpleasant and unpopular, but they aren't the problem; the real problem is that demand is rising faster than supply. Rising prices cause temporary pain while telling suppliers that more is needed. Price-gouging laws, by contrast, falsely tell the public that politicians are watching out for them even as they extend shortages and the resulting pain.
March 20, 2020 Libertarianism Is the Only Solution for Healthcare and the Coronavirus
For 30 years here at FFF, we have been saying that there is one — and only one — solution to America’s decades-long, ongoing, never-ending healthcare crisis. That solution is: a total separation of healthcare and the state. No more Medicare or Medicaid. No more medical licensure. No more government regulation and management of healthcare. A total free-market healthcare system, one that ...
To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
by Richard M. Ebeling
Momentous events usually leave strong memories on those who have lived through them, and those memories often become passed on to later generations in ...
Libertarianism and the Coronavirus
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
What is the libertarian solution to the coronavirus crisis? Why, libertarianism of course! Join FFF president Jacob ...
The Money-Printing Gods Have Failed
by David Stockman
Hooray! Finally even the robo-machines and day traders are puking, not BTFDing. Today’s 3,000 Dow Point Dump says even they have had enough of the ...
