Opinion
U.S. consumers: Corn-fed or force-fed?
This Free Market Minute is a carryover from the previous FMM, which discussed some of the issues surrounding a federal energy policy to increase the use and production of ethanol for fuel. Key ideas, missing in energy policies such as the new ethanol proposal, are that authentic market information as well as incentives matter in creating economic opportunity, wealth and prosperity throughout a nation. It's part of the mystery of capital and capitalism.