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Keynesian Economists Are Today’s Flat Earthers.

August 13, 2019

Given the belief that consumption is the source of output, it’s only natural that to believe government waste during the Trump years would be the cause of growth. Implicit is that Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are better allocators of precious resources than are Peter Thiel and Jeff Bezos. That's not serious.

Green Fanatics Would Ban Airplane Travel. Entrepreneurs Will Innovate To Make Air Travel More Efficient And More Comfortable. Who Helps People More?

August 12, 2019

The phenomenal performance of innovation through businesses has not only been present in the transportation market but also in everything from faster internet to new varieties of beer, new medicines, and better delivery services. All of these things have been incentivized through the profit motive and made possible through the investment of part of that profit into R&D.

It’s Honesty And Trust That Cause The Market Economy To Thrive.

August 11, 2019

Imagine the costs and inconvenience we’d suffer if people were generally dishonest and we couldn’t trust anyone. We would have to lug around measuring instruments to ensure, for example, that it was ten gallons of gas and one pound of steak we purchased.

Politicians Ignore Economic Laws Of Scarcity In Order To Make Their Standard Empty, Meaningless, Unfulfillable Promises.

August 10, 2019

As economist Thomas Sowell wrote, “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

Profit Is The Only Route To Sustainability, Which Is Why It’s Up To Entrepreneurs To Save The World.

August 9, 2019

To make a judgment that the citizens should prefer clean energy and its cost structure requires an objective assessment of what they should be valuing. Such judgments are often made by experts, intellectuals, scientists, bureaucrats, and commentators. Citizens’ perception of value is entirely subjective.

“How Far That Little Candle Throws ‘Her’ Beams! So Shines a Good Deed In a Weary World.”

August 8, 2019

Our graduates have a sort of wisdom that is really rare in today’s culture. They have learned how to write clearly and eloquently. They have drawn inspiration from countless, beautiful works of literature. They have learned things in science where they can look at the world and see order and intelligibility. We don't talk about college.

An Entrepreneurial Pastor Preaches The Virtues Of Economic Liberty, The Guarantor Of Religious Liberty.

August 7, 2019

We are culture builders. And one of the tools in the toolbox is capitalism—to form our people to compete well in the market, and to execute, to have confidence in what they are doing.”

Big Business’s Hypocritical Lurch To The Left Causes Them To Lose Trust, The One Loss They Can’t Afford.

August 6, 2019

Here’s what not to do: force explicit, obnoxious, and controversial political messages into areas that are not inherently political. If you make kids’ movies like Disney, pressuring states to not adopt anti-abortion laws is actively trying to kill off your own target demographic.

The Hungarian Jewish Immigrant Who Provided the Critical Mass That Inspires People Everywhere

August 5, 2019

The value to Pulitzer's donors was the concretization of one of their highest values - liberty, integrated in to a work of great art that lights the way to a future as it could and should be. From New York Harbor, Liberty gazes east and encourages people to take pride in the fact that you can do this too - through value creating capitalism.

The Grocery Store Is A Metaphor For Increasing American Living Standards Experienced By Both Rich And Poor.

August 4, 2019

Gains in technology and food science, along with the widespread reduction in transaction and transportation costs, have enabled producers to increase quality, get better information on what consumers want, and ship those products to stores more quickly, more safely, and all year round.

We Can All Buy Much More With Our Earned Incomes Than Ever Before: The Myth Of American Middle Class Stagnation.

August 3, 2019

For a quarter century now there has prevailed the myth of American middle-class economic stagnation. Specifically, this myth holds that ordinary Americans’ living standards hit a peak in the mid-1970s and have remained stagnant ever since. But the statistics used to tell the stagnation myth are seriously flawed.

It’s Not Capitalism That Makes Us Pursue Consumption, It’s Governments.

August 2, 2019

Almost no one has abandoned modern society to return to a happy, integrated life of fixed poverty. And perhaps the most conspicuous non-withdrawers from society are those very critics who use our modern “alienated” mass communications to denounce modern society.

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