The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the rule of law clearly played a major role in transforming Western society from a world in which the ordinary citizen was literally subject to the arbitrary will of his master to a world in which the ordinary citizen could regard himself as his own master

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.