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Let’s Hear It For The Middleman: A Critical Player In Economic Growth And Prosperity.

September 7, 2019

Because in our modern economy every one of us purchases from others nearly everything we use, our economy is a vast complex of middlemen. Its supply chains span the globe, and they are mind-bogglingly efficient.

Why Does Capitalism Educate Its Own Enemies, And Then Give In To Them?

September 5, 2019

The intellectuals acquire a discontented frame of mind, and become resentful. Resentment rationalizes itself into the social criticism of the economic spectator. This, in turn, creates a hostile atmosphere surrounding the engine of capitalism.

Frederic Bastiat Boldly Spoke Truth to Power Armed with Reason, Purpose, Pride and Clarity

September 4, 2019

Bastiat's greatest contribution is that he took the discourse out of the ivory tower and made ideas on liberty so clear that even the unlettered can understand them and statist's cannot obfuscate them. Clarity is crucial to the moral superiority of personal liberty.

A Great Way For Kids To Learn About The Implacable Opposition Of Government To Individual Initiative.

September 3, 2019

Let’s at least try to give kids a taste of the free market before the crushing government bureaucracy weighs in upon them.

The Political Overlords Try To Force People To Ride Buses – And Fail Miserably.

September 2, 2019

Many Angelenos are doing the exact opposite of what Mr. Washington would like. Hugh Brockington, a musician who lives in the L.A. suburb of Pasadena, rode buses to auditions all over the city, until the frustration of slow travel got the better of his good intentions. “I just couldn’t do it anymore,” he said.

Ideas Evolve Into Economic Successes In An Unpredictable Way. We Shouldn’t Try To Regulate Or Manage Emergence.

September 1, 2019

“The mind can never foresee its own advance” is one of Hayek’s most quoted lines. Hayek adds, “Though we must always strive for the achievement of our present aims, we must also leave room for new experiences and future events to decide which of these aims will be achieved.”

Global Warming Alarmists Can’t Make A Case. They Offer Statistically Meaningless Data, & Get Cause And Effect Backwards.

August 31, 2019

“How can human carbon dioxide, which is less than 5% of natural carbon dioxide, cause 30% of today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide? It can’t.”

Do You know the Names Gramsci, Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer and Brecht? They’re The Ones Destroying American Values.

August 30, 2019

Cultural Marxism aims to destroy the family; mobilize women as revolutionaries against men, through aggressive feminism; encourage large-scale immigration to abolish national identity; create dependency on the state and state benefits; and control and infantilize the media.

What – Exactly – Constitutes Economic Progress? It’s Not GDP Growth. Then, What Is It?

August 29, 2019

What do we actually mean by “progress”? How should it be measured and monitored, and who experiences it? For many reasons, the standard indicator of real GDP growth, which leaves out much of what people value, will no longer do.

Rockefeller’s “Carbon Dividend Plan” Provided Millions With the Life Fulfilling Benefits of Clean, Cheap Light

August 28, 2019

Before 1870, only the rich could afford whale oil and candles. With the drop in the price of kerosene, working-class people all over the nation could afford the one cent an hour that it cost to light their homes at night. Working and reading became after-dark activities new to most Americans.

It Is Important For Progress That We Each Retain the Courage To Be Utopian.

August 27, 2019

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a program which seems neither a mere defense of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism. There must be people who are willing to stick to principles and to fight for their full realization, however remote.

An Entrepreneurial Culture And The Rule Of Law Have Nourished The Nation’s Economic Dynamism.

August 26, 2019

American prosperity involves “creative destruction": obsolete activities and technologies disappear (the destruction), and capital shifts from old uses to more productive ones (the creation). Government efforts to save or bail out companies that stick with outmoded products, services, or management methods protect the existing order at the expense of innovation, growth, and future jobs.

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The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?