Planet JH Weekly interview (2005)
Context: I'm a free-marketeer. I believe in free markets, but... sometimes you have things that look like free markets but aren't because of artificial reasons. I'm not very happy with the current state of what calls itself free market economy in the world because you've got all these grotesque monopolies that are able to game the system in a way that's to their advantage by virtue of their power, and that's not a free market. A real free market has some kind of countervailing influence from the government to keep a monopoly in check, but this government... it's not about free marketing principles, it's about greed pure and simple. And this government wants to assure that the other people that they went to college with get just as rich as they do. This country is going to make Mexico look like Sweden inside of ten years in terms of wealth distribution, because there are no countervailing forces. They've eliminated tax basically for the ultra-rich, they've eliminated any control over monopolies, the greedy have free reign and its just going to be the super rich and the peasants.
“[Chapman] is a strong candidate for being the fool’s gold of the current free-agent market.”
On $30 million Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman's readiness for Major League Baseball, from the New York Times article "Risks Seen in Signing Cuban Defector" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/sports/baseball/04chapman.html by Jack Curry (3 December 2009)
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American baseball agent 1973Related quotes
“Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.”
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1980)
“Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it”
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History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, Preface, p. 26
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“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”
Œdipus, Frag. 546
In the normal course of events, when we demand things like better welfare, health care or education, governments tell us that it isn’t possible.
Everyone's a socialist in a crisis, 21 March 2020
“Government doesn’t "intrude" on the "free market." It creates the market.”
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (2015)
“And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.”
Source: Platero and I (1917), Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
Context: The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.
“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)