We must realize that every governmental measure that lowers the amount of profit successful enterprises can make or which taxes away their profits is a measure that weakens the influence of the consumers over producers. For example, the great industrial fortunes of the nineteenth century were acquir ...
Democrats Disdain Our Best Latin American Ally Mona CharenFri Jul 4, 3:00 AM ET The rescue of three Americans from the jungles of South America is a terrific Fourth of July present to the nation. (And John McCain gets high marks for timing in being present for the happy event.) American contractors ...
Energy Myths By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 4:20 PM PT Oil: With the long July Fourth weekend, you might get a chance to see your senator or representative. If so, you should be ready to dispel a few myths politicians now have about drilling for more oil. This is espec ...
Interesting Takes from Home and Abroad: The Zero at Ground Zero By Steven Malanga The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center on 9-11-01 were striking a blow—a devastating one they hoped–at what they saw as the heart of capitalism and free markets in the United States. But in the aftermath of ...
To contribute to society, one needs to do the utmost for themselves as a prerequisite to do any real service for anyone else. Sounds a bit selfish or greedy you may say. The modern day prevailing ideology for economic and social woes has evolved into a blind faith in a political panacea as a solutio ...
“In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.” –Thomas Jefferson, 1824
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: For a decade it appeared there was no such thing as too many Starbucks for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy its $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street - and sometimes even a third. But ...
Shannon Kari has an interesting article in the National Post today detailing provincial governments' stubborn dismissal of any attempts to liberalize alcohol sales laws. "Despite studies that indicate a private retail system would increase government revenue by eliminating the cost of operating reta ...
http://www.washtimes.com/… Environmentalism, says Czech President Vaclav Klaus, is the new communism, a system of elite command-and-control that kills prosperity and should similarly be condemned to the ash heap of history. The provocative Mr. Klaus, an economist by training and former prime ministe ...
When free markets fail to serve the poor, these people don’t like free markets. When free markets succeed in serving the poor, these people don’t like free markets. There seems to be a pattern here. If only I could figure out what it is. Markets for the Poor in Mexico Helping the poor may be virtuou ...
