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Entrepreneurship And Investment Now Face The Ever-Present Threat Of A Smashing Sledgehammer.

August 19, 2020

With brute force, a blunt and heavy instrument was swung down on society by the state. Sledgehammers crush. They demolish. That’s their only function. They do not build. With the massive sledgehammer that is the COVID-19 lockdown, there is very little opportunity for human creativity and work effort

Technological Deflation Is A New Economic Phenomenon That Can Pay For Basic Income While Eliminating Income Taxes.

August 18, 2020

In 1992, rapidly deflating technologies made up about 0.5% of world GDP, 1% in 2004 and it stands today at 2%. Consider how many consumer electronics devices have been stuffed into that rapidly deflating iPhone. With self-driving cars, 3D printers and AI just over the horizon, more and more of the economy is going to become subject to rapid technological deflation.

Leo’s Edge of Night and Andrei’s Secret Storm Galvanize Kira’s Search for Tomorrow

August 17, 2020

Kira's focus is on what she can control, especially her ambitions, and for the singular reason that she wants it. She has no interest in those who want little more than to avoid death. As the master of her future, and being a naive, idealistic 18 year old girl, her attention is drawn to young men who have not surrendered to their circumstances, whatever that may mean.

When The Government Takes A Dollar From Your Pocket And Spends It, It Doesn’t Mean The Economy Grows By A Dollar.

August 16, 2020

That's right; the belief is that when the government takes a dollar out of your pocket, puts that dollar through the political process, and decides where to spend it (based on input from special interest groups), the economy will somehow return more money in growth than the money invested, even after Washington bureaucrats take their cut. It's magic!

Cato’s Letters Remind Us How Far We’ve Moved From The Intentions Of America’s Founders.

August 15, 2020

Cato's Letters remind us how far we have moved from what George Washington described as “the sacred fire of liberty … staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people,” making their insights worth reconsideration. The upcoming November elections coincide with the letters' 300th anniversary.

From The Optimism Department: Are We Headed Into A New Roaring Twenties?

August 14, 2020

The good news is that the bad news during the previous precedent - the Spanish Flu - was followed by the Roaring Twenties. So far, the 2020s has started with the pandemic, but there are plenty of years left for the prosperous 1920s to become a precedent for the current decade. If so, the driver of the coming boom will be technology-enhanced productivity, as it was during the 1920s.

Will John Tamny’s New Book Start the Anti-Lockdown Movement?

August 13, 2020

Tamny understands economics with an intuitive and uncanny contrarian eye. He points out: “If the virus had been lethal, the lockdowns would have made even less sense…The biggest enemy of life is poverty. Let’s never again fight disease with the taking of freedom and wealth so essential to knowledge, prosperity, and by extension life itself.”

Our Country Needs A Serious Anti-Lockdown Movement.

August 11, 2020

Traditional American civic postulates support individual freedom and the limits of governments, as well as universal principles of human rights. If liberty means anything, it means that we are not locked down. It means, moreover, that lockdowns are unconscionable.

Reliving We the Living Teaches Living Is Not the Avoidance of Death.

August 10, 2020

The first banner read: Comrades! We Are the Builders of a New Life! The other banner read: Lice Spread Disease! Citizens, Unite on the Anti-Typhus Front! The comparative irony Rand presents with these is stunning - to be a comrade is to be lice, citizens are builders where building is forbidden, and life is defined as avoiding death.

The Media Tries To Exploit Economic Ignorance When It Derogates American Prosperity.

August 9, 2020

How many people take the garbage the Times puts out at face value, and never look at the data for themselves? We have to stop allowing ourselves and our kids and communities to be dumbed down by the media, the government education system, and those with a special interest in fundamentally remaking the world into some dystopian Marxist “utopia.”

Don’t Worry So Much About The Politics Of Big Tech, Focus On The Economic Benefits.

August 8, 2020

One of the basic building blocks of economics is that both parties benefit from voluntary exchanges ex ante, or else they would not be willing to engage in it. The fact that consumers use Big Tech to the extent they do is overwhelming evidence of their value.

Leftist Legislation Has Turned The Traditional US Corporation Into A Vehicle For Socialism. Time For New Organizational Innovations.

August 7, 2020

Certain aspects of the employment relationship were guaranteed by government enforcement — including overtime, unemployment insurance, paid time off, opportunity for union representation, and other requirements. This required a corporate form of business.

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