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Here’s How Small Business Will Take Over The Planet.

December 14, 2018

People prefer to deal with those they know, like and trust. Small business can win big on these three fronts. More and more customers will make the choice to buy from small business, especially now that technology, science, efficiency and organizational effectiveness are no longer reserved to big business.

A Former Slave’s Determination to Transcend Politics with Philosophy and Economics in the Jim Crow South

December 12, 2018

Booker T. Washington was an advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft, his autobiography, Up From Slavery, was a national bestseller, his Tuskegee University producers scientists such as George Washington Carver, and with Andrew Carnegie, he founded America's first national business network. However is story is largely unknown as its been ignored by progressive public education establishment because Booker was a champion of individualism.

How NPR Is Carrying The Dirty Water Of The U. S. Climate Assessment, Ignoring Complex Systems.

December 11, 2018

Lets just keep it simple. The Earth has stopped warming, at least for now. The outer atmosphere is getting cooler, and not because of CO2 and bovine flatulence. For today's globalist political elites to claim that global warming threatens developing regions the most is nothing but political pandering.

In The People Centered Economy, We Will Each Be Prized For The Value We Uniquely Create, Not The Jobs We Do For Employers.

December 10, 2018

According to Gallup, only 13% of people worldwide say they are engaged in their jobs - they find their work meaningful and look forward to it. Maybe this whole jobs thing might not be working too well. Innovation For Jobs (i4j) is aiming to create a new paradigm.

Nozick Explains Why so Many Intellectuals Are Opposed to Capitalism

December 9, 2018

“The intellectual wants the whole society to be a school writ large, to be like the environment where he did so well and was so well appreciated.”

When Protectionism Jeopardizes the Privacy Rights of Entrepreneurs

December 8, 2018

If we do not have economic freedom, we do not have freedom period. It is sad that protectionism has reached such an ugly state where entrepreneurs now risk being under constant surveillance from the state.

The Blockchain is Helping to Curb Foodborne Illnesses

December 6, 2018

The fact that this type of technology can be used to ensure our food safety is just further proof of blockchain’s revolutionary implications.

The Individual Mind Behind the Swedish Economic Miracle

December 5, 2018

The Swedish country parson, Anders Chydenius, is a relatively unknown giant among Enlightenment philosophers, economists, and inventors. His ideas written in the 1765 pamphlet, The National Gain, fueled the Swedish economic miracle from 1850-1950, and predated Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. Thanks to Chydenius, Sweden was the first country in the world to adopt freedom of the press, 25 years before America's 1st Amendment, cementing economic freedom and political freedom as the co-dependent variables for human flourishing.

How The Brookings Institute Is Politicizing Gross Domestic Product To Undermine Liberty.

December 4, 2018

Apparently the most financially and ethically bankrupt regions of America are high-output and forward looking populations centers that deserve greater political power. The Brookings Institute is using GDP data and Bachelor Degrees to justify their attack on the US Constitution. They refuse to acknowledge that it is the American federalist system that is fundamental to peaceful human progress.

This Central Banker Is Certain That All Other Central Bankers Are Deluded, Dangerous, And Wrong.

December 3, 2018

Central Bankers need to acknowledge how little they know about how their policies affect the economy, and how simplistic and weak their models are. Their failure to do so amounts to creating financial crises deliberately.

Jury Nullification Empowers the Individual Instead of Arbitrary Laws

December 2, 2018

At the heart of jury nullification rests the belief that individuals and their unique circumstances should be taken into account before one is sentenced under an arbitrary or unjust law.

The Entrepeneur Who Is Teaching Today’s Children And Parents The Economic Way.

November 30, 2018

In our postmodern culture, the political way has a monopoly on the minds of our youngest thinkers. Connor Boyack is fighting back and reclaiming elementary education for parents, and the teachers of their children, to teach the economic way. The goal is to arm active young minds with the distinction between persuasion and coercion, self-reliance vs. dependence, and how to win their own futures.

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