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

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.