What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only entities which can have responsibilities are people.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a monetary union, putting out a fiat currency, composed of independent states.

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.