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It’s A Sign Of Prosperity That Alexa “Eavesdrops” On Us So That Amazon Can Better Understand And Serve Our Needs.

May 18, 2019

Life in Cuba is endless waits for seemingly everything, including basic items like spark plugs, car door latches and….sinks. The antiquated cars that populate the island are in such desperate shape that cabdrivers instruct passengers to very gingerly close their doors. Something as simple to fix (in the United States) as an inoperative door can take many months in Cuba.

AOC IS Your Commander: The Green New Deal Is A War Economy Plan With Authoritarian Enforcement.

May 17, 2019

Green New Dealers see war as a model for domestic policy, calling the Green New Deal a "10-year plan to mobilize every aspect of American society at a scale not seen since World War 2 to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions." When AOC says "I'm the boss," pay attention.

Production, And The Investment That Sustains It, Drives The Economy. It’s A Myth That Consumer Spending Accounts For 70%.

May 16, 2019

Total spending including all stages of production more accurately reflects an economy’s actual expenditures, according to Skousen. When measuring total spending using business receipts compiled by the IRS, Skousen found that “consumption represents only about 30 percent of the economy.”

Here’s How We Cut The Federal Government In Half.

May 15, 2019

This would leave Federal spending limited to: the military, debt service, retirement benefits for Federal employees, and "everything else." This too could eventually be cut in half over time. At present, these categories constitute 38% of Federal spending, or 7.9% of GDP. This reduced spending commitment could be funded with a much simpler tax system.

Half The Economy Is Classified as Highly Regulated. To Unrig The Capitalist System, We Must Get Government Out Of The Way.

May 14, 2019

Larger firms and organizations and their CEOs are prospering relative to smaller ones. And not just firms like Amazon, Uber, Lyft, and General Motors. Also included are regional hospitals, universities, and the operators of major retail chains. As these larger entities prosper, smaller organizations without lawyers on standby scrap for survival.

Four Reasons Why Entrepreneurial Action Is The Most Desirable Route To An Improved Society.

May 13, 2019

But entrepreneurship can be viewed more broadly as being enterprising: assessing the present, and taking individual action to modify it to achieve personal objectives in the future. This better future is never pre-determined, but instead the entrepreneur imagines it as a possibility and creates it step-by-step.

Republicans And Democrats Both Love The Monetary Socialism Of The Federal Reserve.

May 12, 2019

The Federal Reserve has been and is the root cause of all this monetary chaos and crises. That’s what central planning does. That’s what any socialist system does.

Welcome To Turn-Key Capitalism And Functional Markets In A Box!

May 11, 2019

What if blockchain apps and cryptocurrency could simply operate on top of a corrupt system? Software will allow even a nation with a corrupt government and police force, rudimentary banks and broken capital markets to produce useful services.

Progressives And Conservatives Both Misunderstand The Economy. It’s The Result Of Individuals Pursuing Their Own Goals.

May 10, 2019

Each American, each American household, and each American firm has a set of goals that it pursues, and each does so by acting within the American — actually, within the global — economy. But these many attempts to fulfill individual goals are no part of a collective effort to fulfill higher goals.

These Corporate Vigilantes Have No Place In Economics Or In Society

May 9, 2019

The executives and/or founders of large companies increasingly consider it their civic and moral duty to use the influences and powers of their businesses to censor or suppress political and/or inconvenient ideas they do not support or find offensive.

To Solve The Socialists’ Favorite Problems, The World Is Going To Need More Capitalism.

May 8, 2019

Bill Clinton repeated endlessly: “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” This truism might have a contemporary application. What if the answer to capitalism’s current crisis is not socialism or social democracy but more capitalism?

There Are Free Markets And There Is Government Control. There Is No Third Way.

May 7, 2019

Efforts to impose “more aggressive regulation of markets” – which typically amount to more confiscatory taxes and stricter government regulations – may fall short of actual socialism, but erode the defining characteristic of capitalism, namely private ownership over the means of production.

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