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Various government agencies have been created on the claim that they will protect the consumer. These agencies restrict freedom, stifle beneficial...
Who Protects the Consumer?
Government planning and detailed control of economic activity lessens productive innovation, and consumer choice. Good, better, best, are replaced by...
The Tyranny of Control
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...
Anatomy of Crisis
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...
From Cradle to Grave
The Declaration of Independence says, "all men are created equal." Friedman explains that this did not mean all persons should or will have equal...
Created Equal
Parental choice and parental responsibility in the education of children is the U.S. tradition and is consistent with a free society. Centralized...
What's Wrong with Our Schools
Unions sometimes protect some workers - their members - but usually at the expense of other workers. Government protects its employees and special...
Who Protects the Worker?
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...
How to Cure Inflation
John Harley leaves his milkman job to take possession of half of a cattle ranch while waitress Sallie Summers goes west on a similar mission to take...
Where Is This West?