A New Name, and a New Site

Skip Oliva, who heads the estimable and invaluable organization formerly known as Citizens for Voluntary Trade and now called The Voluntary Trade Council, has unveiled a brand-new website.

Here is how the Council describes its primary purpose:

The Voluntary Trade Council (also known as Citizens for Voluntary Trade) is a research and education organization that develops practical solutions to the problems caused by violent state intervention in free markets. The VTC focuses on the harm caused to individuals and businesses by the enforcement of antitrust and other “competition” laws. Through publications, filings with government agencies, and the Internet, the VTC applies the principles of free market economics and rational ethics to contemporary antitrust policies and cases.

"Free market economics and rational ethics..." Glory be.

Not everything has been moved to the new site, but the Antitrust FAQs are available. That's an excellent place to begin, and you'll learn more there than in four or five college-level courses (where most of what you'll be told will most likely be both incomprehensible and wrong). And this page provides links to the cases that the VTC has been pursuing.

It's well worth your time to pay a visit. I think you'll learn a lot. And if you are convinced, as I am, that the work that the VTC does is vitally important in today's anti-business climate (a climate which the Bush administration has made notably worse, if anything), you can also make a donation.