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13 Dec Confusing Free Market Capitalism with the Corrupt Interventionist State

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When most people put on their “reality” hats about politics, there are few among them who do not cynically see the power-lusting, the corruption, and the hypocrisy in most of what is said and done by those running for or sitting in political office. A...

13 Dec When Do We Start Coming out of the Covid-19 Mass Hysteria?-AIER

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“Men . . . go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” So wrote Scottish journalist Charles Mackay in his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which for good reason...

13 Dec A Tribute to the Polish People

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The cause of liberty saw memorable highs and unconscionable lows in 1989. Surely that year will be best remembered as the year Soviet hegemony over central Europe disintegrated, paving the way for the dissolution of the Soviet Union itself in 1991. Free people everywhere should...

13 Dec Russell Okung’s Tweet Slamming Business Lockdowns Wins Approval from Aaron Rodgers

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On December 10, Brandon Bernard became the ninth person executed by the federal government in 2020. Bernard’s death is the latest in a spree of executions carried out by the Trump administration, with this year marking the first time in 17 years that federal executions...

13 Dec PARKER: Dr. Walter Williams: Prophet of freedom

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2 images Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. Readers can respond to Star's column by emailing star-parker@urbancure.org. By Star Parker | Posted 4 hours ago Sometimes, the legacy of great men is that the world doesn't realize how great they were until...

12 Dec Tyranny Storms In

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Here’s a letter to the New York Times: Editor: So it has come to this: a contributing opinion writer – Dr. Richard Friedman – for the New York Times now advocates suppressing the speech of those who dissent from the mainstream consensus of “experts.” It’s terrifying… and...

11 Dec The “Expert Consensus” Also Favored Alcohol Prohibition

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Most people today regard America’s experiment with alcohol prohibition as a national embarrassment, rightly repealed in 1933. So it will be with the closures and lockdowns of 2020, someday. In 1920, however, to be for the repeal of the prohibition that was passed took courage. You...

11 Dec Why Hayek was Right About Nazis Being Socialists

Posted at 12:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Words are powerful things in that they enable us to share a common world of understanding with our contemporaries and, in the written form, with generations long past. But too often words can just as easily cause confusion, misunderstanding, and conflict among people in any...

11 Dec Zoom’s Success Story is Inconvenient for the ‘Break up Big Tech’ Crowd

Posted at 12:43h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Proponents of an antitrust war on Big Tech abandoned the traditional consumer harm test in part because it was hard to prove the giant platforms had actually raised prices or otherwise directly hurt consumers. Now, the runaway success of video conferencing app Zoom raises questions...

11 Dec Colonialism Doesn’t Explain the Developing World’s Problems

Posted at 12:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

There is an abundance of studies postulating that colonialism explains the character of the developing world. For instance, in their seminal paper aptly titled "The Colonial Origins of Development: An Empirical Investigation" (2000), Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson advance the audacious claim that in regions...

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