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Capitalism Is The Best Form Of Philanthropy – As The Philanthropists Are Beginning To Realize.

March 5, 2020

Like venture capitalists, Rockefeller Foundation is to fund a sustainable business that will eventually build out all those electricity grids. Africa is next, where a lack of electricity helps keep 400 million in poverty.

Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Garry Kasparov is the Champion for Chess, AI, and Capitalism

March 4, 2020

My loss to Deep Blue was a victory for humans. It’s hard to look at the big picture during times of disruption and rapid change. But the transfer of human labor to technology is the story of human civilization. Our standard of living gets better, we live longer and healthier lives.

Young People Can Get A Great Start On Entrepreneurship Around The Family Dinner Table.

March 3, 2020

Cultural factors are critical in developing entrepreneurship. Children who acquire a work ethic and values related to entrepreneurial success will have an advantage over their peers who have not had the same experience.

Can We Americans Remember Our Common Objective, As George Washington Advised Us To Do?

March 2, 2020

Should they not heed his call for “mutual forbearances and temporizing yieldings on all sides”, he feared for the governance of the country: “Without these I do not see how the Reins of Government are to be managed, or how the Union of the States can be much longer preserved.”

The Bigger The Government, The Greater The Corruption. Bernie Sanders Is Looking To Double It.

March 1, 2020

Sanders' policies would explode the amount of corruption in this country, no matter how many new rules he tries to impose. If there’s one thing that should be clear to clean government zealots, it’s that the bigger the government, the greater the corruption.

Hate The One Who Is Better Off than You. It’s The Animating Force Of Socialism, Of Marxism, And Now Of MMT.

February 29, 2020

What MMT, the Green New Deal, QE, NIRP, and Helicopter Money have in common is that they are all collectivistic by definition, aimed against the individual and based on the crazy findings of the “Economic School of Zimbabwe” – where everyone became a trillionaire.

Bernie Sanders Ascendant. Stock Markets Plunge.

February 28, 2020

Investors, always looking into the future, had to price in the possibility of major change in Washington; major change that would have a global impact. This perhaps explains a global rout for shares. Sanders was a big surprise that investors had to price.

Why Ayn Rand Laughs – Cuba’s Lost Generation Becomes the Vision for America at South Carolina Debate

February 27, 2020

Old Havana is rich in the history of the Cuba, and distant reminders of its former sense of life. Light is finally shining on the creative and resilient people of Cuba who have spent the last 60 years faking loyalty to their socialist masters. Cuba's Lost Generation are now in their 50s, ready to show the world their resilience as did Hemingway's Lost Generation of 100 years ago.

AOC Has A Perfectly Good Economics Degree. That Explains Why She Spouts Idiotic Economics.

February 26, 2020

There's no reason to believe that a student with an economics degree is going to graduate with a deep understanding of how government intervention distorts markets or impoverishes consumers.

Certificate Of Need Laws Threaten Entrepreneurial Freedom.

February 25, 2020

Because they act as a favor to entrenched industry insiders, Competitor’s Veto laws violate the Constitution’s promise of economic liberty, that is, the right to earn a living free of irrational government interference.

Poetic Justice Warrior Coach Herb Brooks Played Chess at Lake Placid to Beat the Soviets at Hockey

February 24, 2020

To catch up with Russian skating grace and power, he hired a figure skating coach. Instead of defending the Russian offensive system, he selected players who instinctively attack. For his players to forget college animosities, Brooks got them to hate him instead. To sacrifice themselves for team glory, he appealed to their individualist spirits.

We Ordinary Americans Are Fabulously Rich And Getting Richer. We Take It For Granted (And Sometimes Complain).

February 23, 2020

Our material prosperity, although historically unprecedented, is now so commonplace that, for us Americans in 2020, this prosperity appears to be the natural state of the world. It appears simply to exist, like rainfall happens in the tropics.

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