Many people are priced out of the medical and insurance markets for one reason: the politicians refusal to give up power. Allowing them to seize another 16 percent of the economy won't solve our problems. Freedom will.

Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

Markets are too complex to manipulate beneficially.

The politicians should not tell the people to shut up.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.