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We Are All Social Democrats Now – But Market Capitalism Produces Better Results.

March 17, 2020

I know that social democratic policies are emotionally appealing. That’s why they’ve won. Yet objectively speaking, market capitalism should have won because market capitalism offers much better results.

Authoritarian Governments, Like Ours In The US, Take The Opportunity To Ratchet Up Levels Of Control During The Coronavirus Epidemic.

March 16, 2020

History is littered with examples of such regimes, and their track record is without exception abhorrent. It may seem counterintuitive, but the truth is that decentralized decision-making and market-style systems always beat centralization and power.

The Economic Way Of Thinking Can Help You Make Better Decisions.

March 15, 2020

Wasting countless financial and environmental resources to save a handful of turtles might marginally benefit some local ecosystem, but it comes at the much-too-steep expense for the climate that the turtle savior so ardently favors.

Political Decentralization Is A Route To Economic Prosperity, And We Need More Of It.

March 14, 2020

Today, however, we are seeing the impoverishing downside of decades of political centralization in both the US and Europe. Government regulations decreed from Brussels and Washington continue to stifle innovation and entrepreneurship. The antidote to all of this is to decentralize.

There Are Free Market Choices In Dealing With The Coronavirus Scare. The US Chose The Opposite Path.

March 13, 2020

The quick decision among most countries to deploy their military, force the lockdown of communities, pressure firms to withhold their services, and paralyze individual movement reveals that our liberties are expendable when our ruling class says they are.

The Media-Induced Coronavirus Panic Is Worse Than The Disease.

March 12, 2020

Now, with potentially thousands of businesses about to close and collectively millions of people about to be (or already) fired from their jobs, where do those business owners and their employees go to get their livelihoods back?

Temple Grandin is the Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Who Thinks in Pictures and Lives Her Dreams

March 11, 2020

Grandin's breakthrough, not considered possible for people living with autism at the time, was her successful integration of scientific inquiry, animal husbandry, and object-visual thinking into a highly productive career. This is the essence of the economic way, and active minds, "The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less autistic, you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave."What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done.

In Full-Blooded Socialist Systems, Access To Government Power Is The Paramount Avenue To Success.

March 10, 2020

But in full-blooded socialist systems—the Soviet Union was prototypical—like Cuba, China, and Venezuela access to government power is the paramount avenue to success. So much so, that all assets pale in importance by comparison.

Organic Agriculture Is Primitive And Inefficient. And Heavily Promoted By The Anti-Capitalist Left.

March 9, 2020

How primitive is organic agriculture? Organic strawberries yielded 61% less than conventional farms; fresh tomatoes, 61% less; tangerines, 58% less; cotton, 45% less; rice, 39% less; peanuts, 37% less.

Politicians And Government Do Not Create Any Prosperity, Despite Their Claims To The Contrary.

March 8, 2020

We’re bombarded by news reports and campaign ads boasting of how this president or that governor “created” millions of new jobs. Such claims are on a moral and intellectual par with my claim that I deserve credit for not killing pedestrians with my car.

Why Ayn Rand Laughs – The Audacity of Dopes, the Impostor Syndrome, and Super Tuesday

March 7, 2020

The clinical term, “Impostor Syndrome,” may be confusing. Technically, it describes accomplished people who think of themselves as frauds. But there are many more among us who are the real frauds, and we all know what that personality looks like. They have accomplished nothing, yet have the audacity to force themselves on society as experts and visionaries with nothing more than monetary dope.

Great Athletes, Artists, Inventors, and Entrepreneurs Forge Principles for Aspiring to an Exultant Life

March 6, 2020

Unlike Icarus, Simone Biles returned triumphantly to earth, stuck the landing, and inspires millions of young people with her beaming smile rooted in rigid principles. Ayn Rand can laugh because the psychopathology of critics were vetted in her novels, and her heroes live by a philosophy of moral justice that promises a graceful, terrestrial landing for everyone.

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