Radio Rothbard

Compared to other types of universal healthcare systems, what we call "single-payer" healthcare is possibly the worst of all.

Original Article: "Single-Payer Healthcare Is the Worst Kind of Universal Healthcare".

It's government — not markets — that intervene to "stimulate" ever greater amounts of spending and consumption. A healthy market economy, meanwhile, relies on both saving and spending.

Original Article: "Capitalism Doesn't Cause Consumerism — Governments Do".

If climate change effects aren't enough to put a noticeable dent in life expectancy, then why is climate change talked about as an apocalypse?

Original Article: "If Climate Change Is Killing Us, Why Is Life Expectancy Increasing?".

Many people on the left regard economics as neither a science nor a principled field of study. For them, economics is just a pseudo-science invented as corporate propaganda, and people who push "free-market economics" do so because they are either evil or brainwashed by corporate masters.

Original Article: "Why the Left Isn't Convinced by Your Economics Arguments".

To understand the marketplace, it is not necessary to believe in the existence of a selfish, profit-maximizing human.

Original Article: "The Homo Economicus Straw Man".

French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies.

Original article: "French Protestors Fume over Climate Taxes and a Rising Cost of Living".

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims.

Original Article: "After #MeToo, Men Begin Avoiding Female Co-Workers".