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The World Has 525 Million Government Bureaucrats, Dedicated To Limiting Freedom And Opportunity For The Other 6.9 Billion People.

March 17, 2019

What the world needs is more personal freedom and economic liberty so we each may be the voluntary means to each other’s ends through the marketplace of ideas, employments, and products as we use our individual knowledge in our shared global society.

The US Government Is Mugging Huawei Without Any Understanding Of The Simplest Principles Of Economics.

March 15, 2019

There’s no accounting for the final destination of any good. Short of Huawei hoarding all of its production, its smartphones and telecom equipment will ultimately reach Iran for the simple reason that Huawei is successful at selling so many smartphones and so much telecom equipment.

Economics For Entrepreneurs: Value-Creating Entrepreneurship Means Making Money And Making A Difference.

March 14, 2019

Economic growth comes from successful entrepreneurship that is also productive. And not all entrepreneurs who earn profits contribute to economic growth if they have unproductive -- or, worse, destructive -- effects on the economy.

The Greatest Journalist Turned Novelist You’ve Never Heard Of.

March 13, 2019

Garrett wrote that the elimination of poverty was a uniquely American idea. Americans made work the ideas of Poetic Justice Warrior Jean-Baptiste Say, that wages are paid out of production, that wages and profits can rise together, and that rising production creates capital.

This Entrepreneur Gives The Homeless Free Meals Every Single Day.

March 12, 2019

Since Kazi Mannan took over ownership of the establishment in 2013, he has been giving free meals away to the homeless every single day. And no one has ever been turned away due to an inability to pay.

Public Policy Think Tanks And The Administrative State Merely Peddle Complexity Worship.

March 11, 2019

Human nature has not changed. There will always be those who wish to rule; and to make themselves relevant, public policy think tanks and the administrative state use complexity to peddle their hopelessness.

The Federal Reserve Generated A Boom, Clumsily Contracted It, And Left Us With A Badly Broken System.

March 10, 2019

Three things warrant widespread agreement. The Fed generated an unsustainable boom. It followed up with a severe monetary contraction. And it swapped out its traditional operating procedures for a new regime, reducing economic growth and increasing systemic risk in the process.

This Socialist Obsession With Income Inequality Threatens To Impoverish All Of Us.

March 9, 2019

The prosperity that we all enjoy as a result of the creativity, risk-taking, saving and work effort of these and other super-rich people would not exist if they had lounged around all day watching television, playing pool or reading poetry.

Economics For Entrepreneurs: There Can Be An Economy Without Managers, But Not Without Entrepreneurs.

March 7, 2019

In actual fact, the robotic automation does not eliminate jobs but repetitive rules-based tasks that require neither creativity nor humanity. Released from mindless office tasks, we will all be freed to create value through our human values and human ingenuity. We can all become entrepreneurs.

The Poetic Justice Warrior Society Addresses The Attacks On American Capitalism And Personal Liberty.

March 6, 2019

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Can Capitalism Survive Democracy? Yes, When It Decentralizes And Leaves Government Isolated.

March 5, 2019

The impractical answer is to campaign to limit government intervention in business matters. No more tax loopholes, no more industry regulation that favors large incumbent corporations over innovative new entrants, no more legislation that favors cartels and anti-competitive behavior. Good luck with that.

This Breakdown In Government, However Delightful To Subjects, Has Gone Too Far. Let’s Outsource.

March 4, 2019

Government markets itself as the solution to the people’s problems. But the people see it as the problem – the biggest problem they face. This is a colossal marketing failure – akin to a brand-owning company like Kraft Heinz destroying the value of its brands, or a football team losing all of its games.

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