The objective of the corporate firm is to maximize profits and avoid losses - the same objective of the free market. But the costs are paid out before the income comes in. Stockholders will sell stock to shake up the managers.
The words monopoly and competition have been changed. Competition meant rivalry or competing, either active or potential. Businesses do not like this. Monopoly meant a grant of privilege by the government. It now means falling demand curve.
All that stimulatory policies can do is redistribute real savings from wealth-productive to nonproductive activities."
"In short, a striker is a man who says, 'I mean to get my living by doing this thing and no other thing as my share of the social effort, and I do not mean to do this thing except on such and such terms'."
I see a pattern there — a pattern that can mean slavery for free men everywhere if it is not broken.
Social institutions matter most, and they are very wrong now: a huge improvement is possible, and freedom is the answer.
If new capital is the direct product of government spending or the indirect result of its fiscal policy, we are all worse off.
Given that we have rising unemployment, a reduction in minimum-wage rates might bring relief to some unemployed workers.
"The marginal cost of downloads is approaching zero. The access is approaching universal. The capacity for copying is infinite. And the results are everlasting."
Today, the main response to ill-effects of past interventions seems to be to create even greater ones.
