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02 Jul July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values

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Reason, Rights, and Science Are What Made America Great A version of this article was first published in 1999. Capitalism Magazine is republishing it again because its message still remains relevant today.Why should we celebrate the Fourth of July? Because America — as the greatest...

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02 Jul Toward the Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 1 of 10)

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This article is excerpted from chapter 20 “Toward The Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism” from George Reisman’s Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics (1996).The principles and theories presented my book Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996) call for a society of laissez-faire capitalism. (For the sake of...

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02 Jul I Fear That The Sustained And Unreasonable Attacks on White People in America May Become Cyclical And Spiral Out of Control

Posted at 07:21h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Whites are being assaulted on the streets because of their skin color and black activists are trying to eradicate history, as their demands to ‘rehabilitate’ the National Archives from its ‘whiteness’ demonstrate. A trip to Washington, DC would not be complete without a visit to the...

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01 Jul How do you ask good questions?

Posted at 07:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Ryan writes to me: Consuming the different variety of media in which you publish ideas, I’ve noticed that you pose very high quality questions. For me, high quality questions have a Heideggerian quality insofar as they open a space for exploration, i.e. a concept, category, path...

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01 Jul A.I. Is the Best Film of the 21st Century

Posted at 07:55h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Spielberg’s prescient epic of faith remains miraculous. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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01 Jul Capitalism’s Long-Term Incentives

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

From a Wall Street Journal news article about how some new-car dealers are selling cars for prices significantly higher than the manufacturer's suggested retail price: Some dealers say they avoid asking for more than the sticker price because it can be a Read the Full Article...

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01 Jul Is Inflation Below the Fed’s Target? Yes and No.

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Economists from both the political left and right are worried about inflation. The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 5.0 percent over the past 12 months. This is the highest rate of inflation...

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01 Jul The Tyranny of the Minority Is Just as Dangerous as the Tyranny of the Majority

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In a previous installment, I pointed out that in On Liberty, John Stuart Mill advocated for minority opinion to be specially “encouraged and countenanced,”1 and thus that Mill was not an absolute free market thinker where opinion is concerned. Mill suggested that minority opinion should not...

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01 Jul Censorship Kills

Posted at 07:53h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Whenever I write an essay critical of expert opinion on Covid, I immediately receive indignant replies. Some assume I must be a bleach-drinking supporter of President Trump. Others label me a dangerous libertarian since, in their view, I challenge the “best” source of expert opinion. Among...

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01 Jul “Progressives” Blame F. A. Hayek for Everything They Dislike

Posted at 07:53h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

There is the ideologically captured mind that squeezes all the complexities, diversities, uncertainties, and serendipities of life into one limited dimension of cause and explanation. One such mind is that of Wellesley College historian, Quinn Slobodian, who sees everywhere the manipulating agents of a nefarious...

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