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Do You Want To Support Workers? Then Support Entrepreneurial Investors Who Make Work Opportunities Possible.

January 18, 2019

Still, it’s the investment returns that matter simply because they beget more investment. If you love the worker, you must love much more the investors who make work opportunity possible in the first place.

The World Is Getting Quietly, Relentlessly Better.

January 17, 2019

If the world is getting so much better, why does everyone seem so miserable? Perhaps because in the U.S., life is improving more slowly than in poorer countries, and in some places it is getting worse. Yet for most Americans, life is getting better: Median incomes are rising, average health is improving, and violent crime, divorce and teen pregnancy are all trending down.

The Classical Roman Consul Who Inspired America’s Classical Liberal Constitution

January 16, 2019

After four months of debate and compromise in the 1787 sweltering heat of Independence Hall, Publius published 77 essays in New York City newspapers to sell Americans on the idea of ratifying the new Constitution. It is the most enduring achievement of the Enlightenment, and under its decentralized structure, it has proven itself to be the example for human flourishing throughout the world.

Do You Have Any Money? Prepare To Give It Up, Because It’s In The Wrong Hands: Yours.

January 15, 2019

The mayor says New York’s—and America’s—money is “in the wrong hands,” and his duty is to put it in the right ones. The right hands are presumably his own, by which he can pass that money out to those he and the City Council believe to be more deserving.

Where’s The Profit In Digital Innovation? It’s In Reduced Transaction Costs.

January 14, 2019

The new era of low transaction cost digital service provision is, in Munger’s telling, a revolution, as significant as the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century. Each of us as consumers will have the opportunity to lead more convenient, more efficient, and safer lives.

The 7 Negative Emotions Of Social Justice Warriors.

January 11, 2019

SJWs are always angry and almost never genuinely happy or content. There's always something or someone out there who must be "resisted" in some way. Around such people, no trash can is safe from being picked up and hurled in a fit of anger if someone you don't like is about to give a speech at the local university.

The Father of Classical Liberalism Whose Ideas Are Inscribed In Our Souls

January 9, 2019

John Locke had a precise sense of what political freedom means. Natural law dictates that no one can be legitimately subject to the will of another person or group of people. Through reason, Locke proved that no one is born to serve or rule. Legitimate government protects these rights, and is created by the consent of the governed. As the Enlightenment flowered in the 18th century because of modern science and maritime trade, Locke's sense of natural law was enshrined in America's Declaration of Independence.

The “Green New Deal”: Green Socialism Is Still Socialism.

January 7, 2019

What has been proposed is nothing less than the destruction of the fossil-fuel-based energy industries which have long been the lifeblood of capitalism. All houses and businesses are to be “upgraded” in terms of their energy use by thousands, or tens of thousands, of government bureaucrats who would presumably go door to door to enforce the state’s energy-use mandates.

The Government Shutdown Will Not Shrink Economic Growth Despite What The New York Times Thinks.

January 5, 2019

Let's hope government is shut down at least through 2020. This way there’s no growth in government. Congress and the White House both lose, but those of us not in government win, especially the investors and entrepreneurs who can get on with the business of creating prosperity and growth.

Let’s Welcome The Deflation That Is Coming – It Helps Everyone Except Government And Its Cronies.

January 3, 2019

Planned inflation, engineered by Central Banks and executed through money printing and credit expansion, is a friend of expansive government and its close-in cronies at the big banks and Wall Street firms. It's the enemy of the citizen. There are some signs that perpetual inflation may come to an end.

The Dominican Friar Who Introduced the Western World to Western Civilization.

January 2, 2019

St. Thomas Aquinas combined the classical Greek ideal of reason with the Christian ideal of equality to usher the Catholic Church, and humanity, into the Age of Reason. Metaphorically, he invented water - what we know as the Western ideals of personal liberty, self-reliance, invention, tolerance, and limited government. The ensuing prosperity from human creativity is Poetic Justice.

Entrepreneurs Bring Economic Progress – Which Is Far More Important To People Than GDP Growth.

January 1, 2019

Progress in one area leads to progress in others. Life gets better. Progress is not brought to us by managers striving for efficiency, but by entrepreneurs developing specialist knowledge about their area of expertise and thereby discovering new opportunities to serve customers better and to make a profit doing so

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The Center for Individualism exists to revive individualism in America. We seek to be a catalyst for cultural change and a hub for all who aspire to live a self-reliant life. We produce content, curate resources, provide services, and facilitate relationships that empower people to achieve their personal and economic ambitions. Our purpose is to support individuals in building a better life for themselves – and in so doing, to build a better society for all.

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