“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.