30 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings - Antitrust laws, social security debt and industry regulations - Brief article - Quotation

"Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?"

--Henry G. Manne, "In Defense of the Corporate Coup"

"A string of presidents and congresses have shown their compassion for America's aged (and, incidentally, for their own incumbency) by creating an actuarially unfunded debt of $6 trillion, give or take a trillion. Pundits now learnedly debate whether the system will go belly-up before 1990 or expire in a sea of red ink early in the 21st century."

--Loren E. Lomasky, "Buying...