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Free Market Capitalism Is Morally Superior To All Other Economic Systems.

December 14, 2019

In the free market society - and only there - people are morally and legally viewed as sovereign individuals possessing rights to their life, liberty, and honestly acquired property, who may not be coerced.

Decivilization: Negative Interest Rates Mean It Makes No Sense Any Longer To Produce And Save.

December 13, 2019

The outcome of this policy is that time becomes worthless. As one’s hard-earned money, set aside for a rainy day or for their children’s education, instead of appreciating, instead diminishes day by day, it does not make sense any longer to produce and to save.

Working In Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Is Quite Fulfilling, And Can Open The Gate To A Better Life.

December 12, 2019

Peak Season has been made out to be like a scene out of Ben-Hur when Charlton Heston and his fellow prisoners are rowing that galley to the beat of a drum. Such comparisons are ludicrous. Obviously we were driven to give nothing less than our best performance, but management went out their way to make the experience a cheerful one.

The Inspiring Teacher and Leader With The Incredible Power to Heal Broken Spirits – Marva Collins

December 11, 2019

The fourth grade students interviewed in the original 1979 60 Minutes feature were asked who their favorite authors were. Some of the answers were Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Chaucer, or Kipling. One learning method was Socratic dialogue, and years later Collins explained that since they're great at memorizing rap lyrics, Plato becomes easy. Many went on to wonderful careers in law, medicine, business, and education.

The Next Stupid Move Of Our Political Class Will Be To Tell Us We Must Become More Like China.

December 10, 2019

The next major event that will be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. Politicians will try to sell you on the monstrous idea that we must become more like China to defeat China.

Anti-Capitalism Is Trendy But It Totally Ignores The Data Regarding Prosperity And Exit From Poverty As A Result Of Capitalism.

December 9, 2019

The average income in the most capitalist countries is six times higher, in real terms, than the average income in the least capitalist economies. More than 27 percent of people in the most socialist economies live in extreme poverty but that number is just 1.8 percent in freest economies.

Adhering To The Law Is No Longer Obligatory For The Democrats’ Favored Groups.

December 8, 2019

The creation of an implied multi-tier justice system expressly violates our fundamental value of the law applying equally to citizens from all walks of life and most importantly results in the increasingly intolerable and dangerous conditions existing on the streets.

America Is Hooked On Transferism. It’s Not Quite Socialism, But It’s Definitely Not Capitalism.

December 7, 2019

Politicians like Transferism: a system in which one group of people forces a second group to pay for things that the people believe they, or some third group, should have. Transferism is the forced redistribution of what’s produced.

The Interagency Is An Unauthorized Body Making Decisions and Allocating Tax Dollars Without Executive, Legislative Or Judicial Approval.

December 6, 2019

What is the interagency, and why should its views guide the conduct of American diplomatic and national-security professionals? The Constitution grants the president the power to set defense and diplomatic policy. Where did this interagency come from?

There Is An Active, Energetic and Clear-Eyed Populist Patriotism That Rejects Exploitative Elites Of Both Parties.

December 5, 2019

Elite liberals too often talk about patriotism as if it’s a set of blinders preventing Americans from recognizing their country’s flaws. Likewise, conservative elites dismiss patriotism as a trifle to be set aside when there are higher investment returns to chase or markets to open.

Government Intervention To Address So-Called Market Failures is Largely Superstition.

December 5, 2019

There’s no good reason to think that estimates made of social costs by even well-intentioned and sparklingly brilliant government officials will be close enough to accurate to trust that a government empowered to correct market failures will, on the whole, raise social welfare.

The Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Who Brings Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek to Life – Russ Roberts

December 4, 2019

Almost no one understands or appreciates the spontaneous order and emergent nature of complex economic systems. At the same time, government economic planners and progressive public policy think tanks deny it exists. It would make them irrelevant. Fortunately for enlightened civilization, Russ Roberts is hastening their irrelevance.

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