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27 Sep Having a Right To Work and a Right To Profit

Posted at 09:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“Brethren, you must club together to find me work at your own price.” This is the right to work; i.e., elementary socialism of the first degree. “Brethren, you must club together to find me work at my own price.” This is the right to profit; i.e.,...

27 Sep Liberty or Lockdown

Posted at 09:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I’m very pleased to announce that my book Liberty or Lockdown is now available at Amazon. It includes a foreword by George Gilder. Below is my introduction. For most Americans, the Covid-19 lockdown was our first experience in a full denial of freedom. Businesses forced closed....

24 Sep Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 08:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 286 of Kristian Niemietz’s excellent 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies: [O]ur economic intuitions are a legacy of the tribal age. Most anti-capitalist arguments, then, no matter how much complex-sounding sociological jargon they may use, are really...

23 Sep Top Twenty Lessons I’ve Learned in 2020

Posted at 16:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This year has been a shock. Here is an early sketch of what I think I’ve learned. Governments are fully capable of doing the unthinkable, and doing so suddenly with no exit plan, little consideration of cost, and a callous disregard for individual rights. The US Constitution...

21 Sep The Iranian Coup that Led to 67 Years of Reckless Intervention

Posted at 12:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The documentary "Coup 53" explores how a seemingly easy regime change wrecked U.S. foreign policy for decades.----Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

21 Sep Witchcraft, Leprosy, and Covid: “Power to Harm” as Political Weapon

Posted at 12:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Covid pandemic is mired in questions of responsibility and blame. In the heat of panic, we abandoned all of our prior behaviors and assumptions surrounding communicable diseases, instantly replacing them with a propaganda-driven “new morality.” In the ultimate switcheroo, instead of assuming personal responsibility...

21 Sep Subsidies, Like Tariffs, Impoverish

Posted at 10:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetThis letter address one of the countless zombie myths about trade: Mr. Crosby: You ask: “How do free trade principles deal with a powerful foreign country like China unfairly subsidizing its exports to us and using the profits to build its military up?” The assumption that...

21 Sep Make It Easy for Startups to Sell Stock

Posted at 10:45h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This is the fifth in a series of articles that will examine ways to help entrepreneurs who are seeking to start small businesses in the wake of the pandemic to access the capital they need. The first article in this series provides an overview of the challenges...

17 Sep Governments Will Impose New Lockdowns If They Think They Can Get Away with It

Posted at 06:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This year’s stay-at-home orders and lockdowns imposed by governments on their populations represent a watershed moment in the history of the modern state. Before March 2020, it is unlikely that many politicians—let alone many ordinary people—thought it would be feasible or likely for government officials to...

17 Sep Opinion | How to Live With Covid, Not for It

Posted at 06:39h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

The battle against Covid-19 is entering a new phase, and the choice for society is whether to live with the virus or to live for it. This new phase has been marked by four developments: Many states have weathered post-shutdown outbreaks and case counts are...

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