Friday, September 27, 2024

TGIF: Who Cares about Inequality?

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What accounts for the preoccupation with income and wealth inequality? We hear about it every day. Isn't our absolute living standard wh...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

TGIF: "We Are All Social Engineers Now"

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I don't know if anyone has actually said, "We are all social engineers now," but someone might as well have. (The variation ...
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Foreign Interference

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People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understan...
Friday, September 13, 2024

TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of c...
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Friday, September 06, 2024

TGIF: What Government Has Wrought

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Imagine two candidates for president, and ask yourself who is more likely to win. Candidate A observes that people are facing generally risi...
Friday, August 30, 2024

TGIF: Doing Good at a Profit

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[P]eople started to believe that the bourgeoisie and its economic activities of trade and innovation were virtuous, or at least tolerable. I...
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Friday, August 23, 2024

TGIF: Back to Barbarism

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Has Kamala Harris inadvertently done free-market advocates a favor? Let's not get too hopeful, but maybe. How so? By pandering to voters...
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Friday, August 16, 2024

TGIF: Gaslighting

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I wonder who's gaslighting us now. Here are some of the major perpetrators: The pundits and pseudo-economists of all tribes who try to c...
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Friday, August 09, 2024

TGIF: Khan Controlling Trade

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Lina Khan is a Washington, D.C., rock star. She is not only President Joe Biden's celebrated chief of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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Friday, August 02, 2024

TGIF: Democracy as Religion

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During a conversation with someone who loves representative democracy but hates America's current political situation, I pointed out a p...
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Friday, July 26, 2024

TGIF: Damn Consumers!

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Global free trade is about individual, not national, freedom—for consumers and producers who import raw materials, tools, and semi-finished ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Restricting Production

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"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

"Capitalism" Is about Freedom, Not Capital

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 "Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is ab...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

TGIF: The Populist Trap

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If you care about individual freedom and general prosperity, you'll want to avoid all shades of populism like the plague. It is economic...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Tariffs Violate Freedom

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Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not America...
Friday, July 12, 2024

TGIF: Culture without Romance

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"The entire history of the human race, the rise of man from the caves, has been marked by transfers of cultural advances from one group...
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Friday, July 05, 2024

TGIF: On the Pursuit of Happiness

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The most remarkable phrase in the Declaration of Independence, whose anniversary we just celebrated, is  the pursuit of happiness. Looking ...
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Tuesday, July 02, 2024

David Tennant: Pompous, Rude Ignoramus

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British actor David Tennant showed his pompous, rude ignoramus side recently when he, in accepting an award from an “LGBT” organization, tol...