Jorge Besada, Author at Granite Grok

OPINION: Government Regulations Create Monopolies and Stifle Competition

May 5, 2026 Jorge Besada

From our freedom to use or transform our private property emerges the freedom to trade it with anyone we choose. This freedom to trade inadvertently transforms mankind into a global supercomputer where private sector companies are always engaged in the process of economic competition which motivates companies to innovate and copy the innovations of competitors. … Read more

Relearning the Lessons We Never Learned from World War I

July 9, 2025May 25, 2025 Jorge Besada

On August 10, 1915, British physicist Henry Mosely—who would’ve likely won the Nobel Prize that year—died in perhaps the most disastrous error mankind has thus far made, The First World War (1914-18). Bright and pious fellow humans that had absorbed German, French, British, Russian “identities”; students, fathers, engineers, “great minds,” and “experts,” who even shared … Read more