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Here’s What Bernie, Liz Et Al Are Really Peddling: Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

June 24, 2019

FALC is a strong brew of technological determinism, sunny utopianism, and souped-up socialism: Let the robots do all the work, and let humans enjoy the fruits of their labor in equal measure. The idea has come into vogue over the past half-decade or so among progressive thinkers concerned about inequality and stagnation.

Central Banks Cause Income Inequality. We’ve Known It For 300 Years, And It’s Proven Again And Again.

June 23, 2019

As a largely-forgotten economist with the name of Richard Cantillon pointed out, when new money is introduced into an economy, it enters at processes close to the central bank – and then trickles slowly through the rest of the economy. Thus, it is more beneficial for some, like big banks and hedge funds and their clients, than for others.

Entrepreneurship Is The Science Of Making People More Valuable To Each Other.

June 22, 2019

To quote Adam Smith again, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest". If they know what others need in order to feel more valuable, entrepreneurs can design and offer products and services to meet that need.

San Francisco: The City That’s More Politically Correct Than It Is Livable.

June 21, 2019

The decision is bad; it's an extension of the city's straw ban, plastic bag ban, and all the other Big Brother bans that make San Francisco more politically correct than liveable. Nothing is solved with these bans and quality of life is never improved any more than the earth is saved

Grant No Respect To Government. It’s A Weapon Fought Over By People Who Want To Smash Each Other—And You.

June 20, 2019

Pollsters continuously report that the dominant modern political factions hate each other to an unprecedented degree, and their chosen standard bearers are seeking to act on that loathing. It's enough to make you think government officials shouldn't be trusted with the powerful tools of the state.

Since We All Believe In Different Values, Are we Still A United Nation And One People?

June 19, 2019

What makes our values right and theirs wrong? Why should our views and values prevail? Under our Constitution, many practices are protected — abortion, blasphemy, pornography, flag-burning, trashing religious beliefs — that other nations regard as symptoms of a disintegrating society.

Wages Are Growing And Inequality Is Narrowing. Don’t Expect To Hear Much About It.

June 18, 2019

Wages in May for nonsupervisory employees increased 3.4% year over year, the 10th consecutive month at or above 3%—after a stretch in which wage growth had been below 3% for every month since May 2009. The recent gains were even more significant for workers in traditional low-wage sectors.

What’s Happening In Our Universities Is Not Education, It’s Indoctrination By Government And The Left.

June 17, 2019

The Progressive Left has a seminary, too — a finishing school where the ambitious and well schooled are polished to become "ministers" of their religion. It is the American university system.

The Federal Reserve Is Just Another Political Body With Lousy Economic Theories – For Big Government And Against Working Americans.

June 16, 2019

Last week’s disappointing jobs number, as well as major downward…

Beware Of Politicians Addressing “The American People”. It’s A Cover For Their Lies.

June 14, 2019

The more politicians use the phrase “the American people,” I believe, the less they are to be trusted.

The Most Fatal Conceit Is That Of A Politician Who Says, “I Have A Plan For That”.

June 13, 2019

Hayek saw grand plans as a perfect vehicle for the fatal conceit, and argued that highly mobile and creative human beings may have a better approach when left to their own devices. As he points out, ordinary people tend to solve the problems they confront, to figure things out, and invent efficient new ways of doing things

Be An Entrepreneur Or Work For Wages? Working For The Capitalist Is The Better Deal Many People Choose.

June 12, 2019

The capitalist bears the risk of potential losses. Appetite for risk is in limited supply. Most people are not willing to risk losing their own funds (or borrowed funds that they will have to repay) in the event their produced goods are not valued by consumers at a price higher than the production costs.

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