We speak loosely of the “corporation’s income” or of “business” having an income. That is figurative language. The corporation is an intermediary bet… - Milton Friedman

Only people have incomes and they derive them through the market from the resources they own, whether these be in the form of corporate stock, or of bonds, or of land, or of their personal capacity.

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.