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When The Left Talks About Their Programs, They’re Never Honest About The Increase In State Power And Coercion.

April 12, 2019

The bitter truth about most public policies being sold by the political class is that they give them more power to control our lives. If you favor some of these policies, be honest with the rest of us about what you mean, so that we can make more clear-headed judgments about the kind of society we want to live in.

Democratic Socialism Is Not Only Unachievable, Its Unintended Consequences Would Be Unbearable.

April 11, 2019

If we really want progress, we must earnestly scrutinize the array of feasible outcomes that are economically viable. Such moves in public discourse require a discipline in intellectual affairs that seems almost out of reach at this time of division and discord.

We Need The Billionaires Who Revive Neighborhoods Where The Rest Of Us Don’t Feel Safe.

April 10, 2019

To hear the class warriors say it, the rich aren’t paying enough. Even though the top 1 percent of earners account for nearly half of all federal tax revenues, this isn’t enough for those who live to redistribute. They want the rich to pay much, much more. Such a view is quite literally impoverishing.

Economics For Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurs Change The World For The Better By Thinking Exclusively About How To Offer New Value To Consumers.

April 9, 2019

When you no longer need to own a car, there is a huge convenience gain. Not only that, but resources become better utilized as owned automobiles no longer are wastefully parked in garages for long stretches, and consumers don't have to tie up their capital in something as banal as personal transportation.

America Is Raising The Least Work-Prepared Generation In History.

April 7, 2019

We have devalued the learning value of work. In a world that has increasingly emphasized the importance of education, it would be a catastrophic failure to not celebrate the educational value of work and the ways in which school-based learning can and should enhance work opportunity and performance.

Individual Responsibility, Hard Work, Personal Initiative, Family Values And Free Markets Will Defeat The Left.

April 6, 2019

Today minorities suffer from underdevelopment, not racism. Individual economics is the antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.

Political Capitalism Is The Greater Threat To Economic Freedom. Big Business Is More Guilty Than The Socialists.

April 5, 2019

Big Company capitalists lobby government for tax breaks, subsidies and protectionist policies rather than supporting competitive markets and a level economic playing field. They don’t defend the free-market system from which they have so richly benefited.

Objective Journalism Is An Impossibility, So Why Does The Media Keep Insisting That They’re Not Biased?

April 4, 2019

Thanks to journalism's profound and obvious hostility to the Trump administration, it has become increasingly difficult for the media to continue to claim adherence to dispassionate scientific inquiry. This departure from the scientific ideal has become more clear in the last decade.

The Artisan, Entrepreneur And Poet Laureate Of Collegiate Rowing.

April 3, 2019

"Harmony, balance and rhythm. They're the three things that stay with you your whole life. Without them, civilization is out of whack." This is a wonderful metaphor for the life-sustaining elegance of free markets and human action.

Confident Innocence And Uncomprehending Sincerity Will Lead Us To State Capitalism.

April 2, 2019

People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be as innocent and as sincere as they claim to be, but their statist schemes are going to fall afoul of economic realities.

Democratic Socialism Will Not Save The Millennials. More Capitalism Will.

April 1, 2019

Free market capitalism together with the drastic reduction of the state and the abolishment of politics would do away with the financial burdens that afflict the modern citizen. State intervention in economic life does not lead to prosperity. The path to affluence is the withdrawal of the state and the end of politics.

Climate Change Activist Admits: Being Green “Requires the End Of Capitalism”.

March 30, 2019

Unfortunately for the billions of human beings who have benefited from what market freedom exists, the new green-socialist global state imagined by McDuff will undo decades of gains against grinding poverty — gains enjoyed by the world's most at-risk and poorest populations.

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