“Rent control is not only increasingly futile, but increasingly destructive the more severe it is, and the longer it remains in effect.” — Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson As the new mayor of New York City, one of the several, ill-conceived campaign promises Zohran Mamdani will try to fulfill is rent-control “for all tenants […]
“Price-fixing always does harm and it is never a cure for inflation.” — Hazlitt & Wesbury In May 1972, the first issue of Imprimis featured an article (“The Dangers of Price Controls”) by Henry Hazlitt, the noted author/journalist on matters of business and economics. The Federal Reserve had been printing a lot of money to […]
“Title II regulation of the Internet is a solution in search of a problem.” — Logan Albright, Research Analyst at FreedomWorks I confess, I have been putting off taking the time & effort to get up to speed on this whole “Net Neutrality” thing. I mean, I had the gist of it but didn’t know […]