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[su_quote cite=”Ludwig von Mises” url=”mises.org”]Freedom, as people enjoyed it in the democratic countries of Western civilization in the years of the old liberalism’s triumph, was not a product of constitutions, bills of rights, laws, and statutes. Those documents aimed only at safeguarding liberty and freedom, firmly established by the operation of the market economy, against …
“In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.” …In the last quarter century, more than 1.25 billion people escaped extreme poverty – that equates to over 138,000 people (i.e., 38,000 more than the Parisian crowd that greeted Father Wresinski in 1987) being lifted …
Data Point – And it wasn’t Socialism that caused this! Read More »
Once again we see the Left on display complaining that life won’t manifest itself into their whine of “equal outcomes.” The piece by Katharine Gregg (after the jump) complains about what most Progressives do – gee, some people have a head start and familial leg up on the rest of us; she labels that “opportunity …
Part 1 is here. In Part 2 over at Treehugger, Chris Howard decided to deride shopping altogether: Masturshopping. Shopping for self pleasure, not want or need. Well, he took the bait and answer my question of “And how is “shopping for pleasure” different than “want”? I see no difference at all”. I still see no …
Disqus Doodlings – Treehugger is so upset we buy clothes for ourselves….Part 3 Read More »
There’s nothing wrong with capitalism There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise Don’t try to make me feel guilty I’m so tired of hearing you cry There’s nothing wrong with making some profit If you ask, I’ll say it’s just fine There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live nice So tired of hearing you whine About …
A Little Free Market Frivolity: Capitalism by Oingo Boingo Read More »
Innovationism: Deirdre McCloskey says somewhere that a better name for capitalism is “innovationism” – innovationism unleashed only in societies in which private property rights are at least reasonably secure, freedom of contract is at least reasonably the norm, markets are at least reasonably free, and (importantly) the multitude of bourgeois merchants and accountants and actuaries …
A union shop foreman walks into a bar next door to the factory and is about to order a drink to celebrate Obama’s victory when he sees a guy close by wearing a Romney for President button and two beers in front of him. He doesn’t have to be an Einstein to know that this …
…and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and he feeds himself forever. Here’s a bit of a reality check for the expanded ObamaUSA welfareland that wants everyone to be equal in income and that you, Mr. / Mrs. / Ms Obama Voter decided to have over the alternative. Enjoy that …
Anti-Collective, Anti-“we’re better together”, Anti-“you succeed only when we all succeed” (and all that other crapola) rant. So Bill ayers wakes up, wishes to blow up capitalism, fails, goes to bed and then does it again the next day. I guess I’m complicit in his scheme – at least in part. Like Bill here, I …
Blue collar Reality shows – paragons of capitalism. Listen to them over our President. Read More »
Every year, the Elites of the political, economic, and cultural worlds gather in Davos, Switzerland to talk about global ‘stuff’ – what’s trending, what’s wrong, and their global ways of fixing them what they believe is wrong – for the betterment of us all. Hate to keep sounding like a broken record but even with …
