John Mackey on the Fed and bailouts
The Wall Street Journal features an interesting interview with Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: there’s one other institution John Mackey thinks needs a makeover—and that’s government. He describes what the Federal Reserve has done with massive money creation as “debauchery of the currency.” He thinks the bailouts were a travesty. ..”I don’t think anybody’s too [...]
The Whole Foods boycott and modern liberalism
Commenting on the call for a boycott of Whole Foods by liberal activists, Donald J. Boudreaux draws attention to the double standard of modern liberals when it concerns voting with one’s dollars: How hypocritical. Persons who seek greater government control over health care proudly exercise their ability to vote with their dollars to avoid patronizing [...]
Government-run health care by another name
The co-ops that are being proposed to bring more choice and competition to health care are just the “public option” by another name and will drive private insurers out of business. As Michael T. Tanner writes for the Cato Institute: If a “co-op” is run by the federal government under rules imposed by the federal [...]
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