Why Minimum Wages and Price Controls Don’t Work
The government can either stop interfering with prices in the free market, or is eventually forced to take over the entire process of production and distribution. There is no middle way.
The government can either stop interfering with prices in the free market, or is eventually forced to take over the entire process of production and distribution. There is no middle way.
It is ok to depict what ought to be and is not because of the constraints of reality. But when we ignore the difference between fantasy and reality, this is a serious obstacle to our well-being.
The decision by MicroStrategy, a firm listed on the Nasdaq, shows that they wanted to hold cash instead of investment assets. All they needed was a better form of cash.
Free markets require critical thinking to outdo other people on the market. Regulated economies require sucking up to those in power.
When losses can’t wipe out the PSU, only detailed rules for managers can limit the government’s budgetary exposure to it.
Happiness is found in the sunlit uplands of freedom, not in the squalor of the bans and regulations which these activists promote.