David Filkin

Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, stifle beneficial...

Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by...

The Great Depression has been popularly viewed as a failure of capitalism. The stock market crash, the failure of the Bank of the United States, loss...

The welfare state arises from the attempt to do good with other people's money. Such attempts always fail because: Nobody spends somebody else's...

The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman explains that this did not mean all persons should or will have equal...

Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is the U.S. tradition and is consistent with a free society. Centralized...

Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its employees and special...

Inflation results when the amount of money printed or coined increases faster than the creation of new goods and services. Money is a "token" of the...

Democracies have only recently been considered desirable. Historically, it was feared that democracies always self destruct when citizens, forgetting...