The Great Capitalist Novel
Ignorant politicians who create no wealth can only impede great visionaries like Henry M. Galt from creating wealth with monetary chicanery, antitrust litigation, labor laws, and other regulatory measures.
Ignorant politicians who create no wealth can only impede great visionaries like Henry M. Galt from creating wealth with monetary chicanery, antitrust litigation, labor laws, and other regulatory measures.
The absence of market discipline in medicine cannot last. Governments and the medical cartel have successfully used fear to maintain control. Fear has kept the masses from rising up. Until now.
Antipoverty "strategies" like mandatory overtime pay, state-protected unionization, and opposition to labor-saving devices only serve to increase the cost of living for poor and rich alike.
It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we're told taxes = civilization.
Spanish mercantilism meant the Crown picked which industries flourished and which withered. This led to a multitude of malinvestments including booms for southern Spain and busts in the Low Countries.
The average standard of living in this country is higher than in any other country of the world. This is because the per head quota of capital invested is in America higher than in other countries.
The collectivistic and neomercantilistic writers of today seek prosperity along a road that necessarily takes us further and further away from peace.
The US trade deficit is an American problem. It is the result of insufficient savings at home and a widening budget deficit.
Bloomberg suggests that individuals should not be permitted to make their own stock selections because they are not "qualified" to make such decisions. Instead, governments should help direct their investment choices.