Price Controls

Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame. 

Rent control always results in housing shortages and deteriorating housing stock. Governments and activists, unfortunately, never learn any lessons.

Progressives blame the free market for insulin prices and want to impose price controls. But, government regulation is to blame. 

In this episode, Murphy clarifies what is right and wrong on comparative advantage.

Kamala Harris claims that she simply wants food prices to be lower. However, her de facto price fixing scheme would create food shortages and raise the real price of food. Of course, when that happens, Harris simply will blame capitalism.

Dr. Jonathan Newman joins Bob to analyze Kamala Harris's proposals against price gouging, and how some mainstream economists defend Government price controls. 

As inflation gets worse in Nigeria, politicians call for price controls and other government interventions. Unfortunately, they never consider the option of free markets. 

Let's abolish regulations.

As the world heads further down the road to trade protectionism and war, Mark takes a look at what Ludwig von Mises dubbed the "Montaigne Fallacy."

In 1959, Ludwig von Mises gave lectures on economics in Argentina, where the economy was in steep decline. In the 1920s, Argentina was one of the world's wealthiest countries, but decades of Peronism and inflation started the country on the long road to poverty.