Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on October 10, 2026
… is from page 73 of The Thomas Sowell Reader (2011):
An economy exists to make trade-offs, and a market economy makes the terms of those trade-offs plain with price tags representing the relative costs of producing different things. To have politicians arbitrarily change the price tags, so that prices no longer represent the real costs, is to defeat the whole purpose.
