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If Germany Breaks, So Will The Eurozone.

February 2, 2019

Overall, it would appear that Germany acts as the string that keeps the bloc together and should it break, multiple challenges could surface, threatening the future of the Eurozone and the cohesion of the EU.

Worried About The Ravages Of Capitalism In New York? It’s Time You Visited Cuba, Venezuela And North Korea.

February 1, 2019

I suspect the writer didn’t waste much time thinking at all. So much leftist writing is boilerplate—capitalism is driven by greed, narrow-self-interest, materialism, etc. Yet people live longer and better thanks to free markets.

So Many Dollars And So Much Time Has Been Wasted On Politics. Let’s Turn Our Efforts 100% Towards Economics.

January 31, 2019

If one person can start thinking and living this way and making progress towards the goal, then another can, and another and pretty soon we have a movement. Let's at least start contemplating the possibility.

The Austrian Champion of Laissez-Faire Human Action and the Micro-Economic Decisions of Individuals

January 30, 2019

Human Action provided an entirely new and superb structure of correct economic methodology and theory. It is the most important book on economics of the twentieth century and quite possibly the most important book in economics, period.

A Querulous Economist Asks Eight Questions That Expose The Dubious Assumptions And Inconsistencies Of His Science.

January 29, 2019

Economists should ask questions that expose the inconsistencies and dubious assumptions that are often at the core of theories that appear on the surface to be unassailable.

How The Envious, The Ignorant, And The Jealous Try To Ram A Poisoned Stake Into The Heart Of Capitalism.

January 28, 2019

Governments, political parties, teachers and writers, militant anti-theists as well as Christian theologians are almost unanimous in passionately rejecting the market economy and praising the alleged benefits of state omnipotence. The rising generation is brought up in an environment that is engrossed in socialist ideas.

How Much Of Your Economic Freedom Do You Want To Preserve? Democrats Aim To Double The Size Of Government.

January 27, 2019

When the Manhattan Institute added up the cost of the Democrats' expansive agenda, the price tag totaled $42.5 trillion over 10 years, or roughly $4.2 trillion a year. And that's likely a lowball estimate, since government programs almost always end up costing far more than advertised.

To Maintain Economic Progress, We Need More Entrepreneurial Innovation.

January 25, 2019

It is the entrepreneur who imagines the better future that consumers wish for, and, in the pursuit of profit, finds a way to deliver it by refreshing capital and putting it to new uses. No other system has this capability.

Now Georgia Is Pursuing a “Netflix Tax” to Cash in on Digital Streaming. Is It Time to Worry?

January 24, 2019

The proposed tax will apply to a wide range of streaming platforms. It is likely that both video and music streaming services will fall under the new digital goods and services tax. Services like Amazon’s video and music streaming platforms, Spotify, Pandora, and Apple will be included in the new tax.

The Uniquely American Self-Made Man

January 23, 2019

Perhaps no one in American history has a better claim to the title self-made man than the one who escaped from slavery to become one of the America's greatest anti-slavery activists, and an author, lecturer, and diplomat. Frederick Douglass never urged black Americans to enlist out of service to their country. They owed the country nothing. To Douglass, the United States owed black Americans the right to fight.

Our Politicians Have Achieved Peak Incompetence So They’ve Delegated Governing To The Administrative State.

January 22, 2019

The bureaucrats are not as incompetent as the politicians. They will get their man, or woman. They will extract their pound of flesh, plus a fine for late payment. They will spy and surveil, they will threaten and lie in court, they will prosecute and fine. They are now our rulers.

Private Investment In Market-Creating Innovations Is What Eliminates Poverty. We Proved It In Nineteenth Century America.

January 21, 2019

Today, when we see impoverished countries around the world struggling to prosper, we tend to focus on sending more and more dollars in aid. But history has shown us a powerful path out of poverty: market-creating innovation.

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