Michael Hintze Quotes

Free markets work better when information is available.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Competition is good and has served us well.

The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

We should rely on the markets to move on their own.

Choices abound in the free market. Choice creates real and immediate accountability.

Competition's a good thing.

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.

I believe in markets before mandates.

The free market economy provides an unparalleled example of a continuing healthy circulation of elites. In this dynamic economy, failure to keep up with competitors, failure to satisfy the demands of consumers in the best possible way, will topple elites quickly and establish new ones who do the job better.

Are you free? Yes, you are free to bow to the dictates of the market.

I started out by viewing the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government and lawyers to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed choice, about many bad alternatives

Free markets are amazing.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.

Free markets select for winning solutions.

Markets are the best way to allocate resources.