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The 3 Ways Capital Investment Beats Charity When It Comes To Improving People’s Lives.

March 29, 2019

The investment into the “tools of production” not only has a longer and more sustainable effect on the livelihood of people, but it actually meets the conditions of charity in a much more profound way.

The Real Story Behind the College Admissions Scandal – Skin in the Game

March 28, 2019

Why would these institutions of "higher learning" admit students who are not prepared, or whose ambitions are poorly served by college matriculation in the first place? It pays, and the way to insure the sustainability of their unearned wealth is to create, out of thin air, degreed programs that cater to the mass market of unprepared high school graduates.

The Sicilian Immigrant Who Dramatized the Ideals of Liberty and Justice for All

March 27, 2019

The more uncertain are the people of the world, the more they need a ringing statement of America's democratic ideals. The soul of our film should be anchored in Lincoln. It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell.

America Is The Last Remaining Capitalist Country, Sinking In The West. Gradually At First, Then All At Once.

March 26, 2019

Capitalism is responsible for unprecedented levels of comfort, health, achievement, peace and personal fulfillment. All other systems are worse. And yet we are sprinting away from it. How does this happen? At first, gradually, then suddenly.

Economics For Individuals: These 5 Elements Of Economic Thinking Will Help You To Make Better Decisions.

March 25, 2019

Economics is about economizing. To economize means to allocate whatever scarce resources are available to you in a way that extracts from those resources the most of whatever it is you want. Time is one of those scarce resources – once we’ve used it up its gone, so we must make an economizing choice.

Get Married, Have Kids, Work In A Corporation. Then Become An Entrepreneur.

March 24, 2019

IF anyone tells you that you’re too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don’t listen. Go with your gut instincts; pursue your passions. You’ll come to wonder why you wasted your time working for your idiotic boss.

800 million Chinese Lifted Out Of Poverty By Capitalism. What’s So Bad About That? It Doesn’t Mean Communism Is Successful.

March 23, 2019

History is filled with dire warnings of this or that powerful government using extensive controls to propel its economy to a new level of wow. What history is not filed with are actual examples of economies being so propelled. Quite the opposite.

If Socialists Really Wanted To Help People, They’d Be Capitalists.

March 22, 2019

Henry Ford didn’t build Fords for the aristocracy, he built them for ordinary Americans. Steve Jobs didn’t create the iPhone for government elites or to meet some government mandate. He created them for you and me. Amazon isn’t a government-run distribution system. It is totally and solely consumer driven.

To Understand Socialism, One Needn’t Fixate On Its Most-Horrifying Elements. Just The Simple Stuff. Like Aspirin.

March 21, 2019

Maybe Venezuelans didn't do it right. Nor did the Russians, or anybody else. Or maybe socialism is a fundamentally flawed idea that always leads to misery by design. We shouldn't need this discussion in 2019, given mounds of evidence and victims, but here we are again.

Huerta de Soto Makes the Moral and Scientific Case for Property Rights and Entrepreneurship

March 20, 2019

All human actions are driven by the force of entrepreneurship, which continually creates, discovers and transmits information, as it adjusts and coordinates the contradictory plans of the different individuals through competition and enables them to live and coexist in an increasingly rich and complex environment.

Small Businesses Are Key In Improving the Lives of Workers – And Everybody Else.

March 19, 2019

Small businesses disperse economic resources more evenly throughout a community, and they provide more options to employees while creating more competition for large firms. Nor do small firms really pay less.

The Real Story Of The College Admissions Scandal – Third Party Payers

March 18, 2019

The wonderful consequence of this scandal is that it is shedding light on the utter corruption driving the university system. The source of the fraud can be simply attributed to third-party payers, mostly government. This means that there is no efficient price mechanism for tuition and fees.

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