Showing posts with label free market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free market. Show all posts
Trump Ditched Free Market Ideology For Nationalism
by Matthew Yglesias. And it's working. Marco Rubio's newly aggressive posture toward Donald Trump is all about delivering low-blow insults, and reflects a popular — but incorrect — notion among Republican elites that Trump's not-very-orthodox ideology is succeeding because of the force of his personality. But Trump isn't winning because he's a buffoon. If ... MORE
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crony capitalism,
Donald Trump,
foreign policy,
free market,
policy,
politics,
protectionism
New York Yankees Don't Understand The Free Market
by Anthony L. Fisher. The New York Yankees are known for being Major League Baseball's financial juggernaut, taking in monstrous amounts of revenue while putting
out rosters with payrolls that frequently push the $200 million mark.
Historically, they have unapologetically embraced capitalism, usually to the benefit of their fanbase. That is, until ... MORE
Labels:
baseball,
capitalism,
competition,
free market,
incentives,
manipulation,
price gouging,
revenue
The Keynesians Are Failing, Bring Back the Free Market
by Ed Moy. In early 1938 John Maynard Keynes, whose influential The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, was published 80 years ago this month, penned a lengthy personal letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In it the British economist shared his recommendations for the U.S. economy, which had slipped into ... MORE
Labels:
capitalism,
central planning,
economics,
free enterprise,
free market,
jobs,
prosperity,
wealth
Occupational Licensing Regulations Stifle Job Creation
from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. How long do you think it takes to train to become a licensed barber in Nevada? A month? Six months? Maybe a year? Nope. Try 2½ years. In a recent piece for Politico, Andy Koenig points out that barbers are among dozens of entry- and mid-level professions harmed by out-of-control occupational ... MORE
John Stossel: Political Arrogance
Candidates advocate for a big fat government. After the Iowa caucus results, it looks like Hillary Clinton vs. Marco Rubio in November! They lead the betting at ElectionBettingOdds.com. This scares me. Neither candidate shows any interest in limited government. They scoff at anyone who suggests that their grand schemes do more harm than good. ... MORE
Labels:
central planning,
Chris Christie,
free market,
gambling,
government,
politics,
statism,
taxpayer
Why Government Should Not Regulate The App Economy
by Iain Murray. In Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories (and in the musical Guys and Dolls),
a gambler named Nathan Detroit hosts New York’s oldest established
floating crap game, presaging three functions of today’s app revolution.
Thinking of the app market in such nontechnological terms shows us what
is really happening today and lays bare the ... MORE
Labels:
choice,
economics,
free market,
freedom,
government,
incentives,
individual liberty,
regulation
John Stossel: Economic Myths
Economic ignorance sells. Hillary Clinton: "Of course we want to raise the minimum wage!" Donald Trump: If we trade with China, "they suck us dry ... take everything. We get nothing!" Bernie Sanders: "Ordinary Americans are working longer hours for lower wages." But it's not true! Politicians are so ignorant about economics. On his blog, Cafe ... MORE
Capitalism: The Worst System -- Except For All The Rest
by Noel S. Williams. The only capital democrat presidential candidates respect is political capital wrought from pandering. Newsflash: capitalism is still the best system for organizing economic life in a free society. Liberals talk about the anger of the right, but Clinton, the very embodiment of ugliness and anger, could barely bring herself ... MORE
Benevolence Of Capitalism Vs Paternalism Of Welfare State
by Richard M. Ebeling. We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government answers to these ... MORE
Labels:
capitalism,
charity,
free market,
government,
poverty,
prosperity,
responsibility,
welfare state
Janet Yellen Fights The Tide Of Falling Interest
by Keith Weiner. On Wednesday Dec 16, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that the Fed was raising the federal funds rate by 25 basis points. Let’s get one thing out of the way. This is not a move towards free
markets. Whether the Fed sets interest lower, or whether it sets
interest higher, we still have central planning. We still have price ... MORE
Make Economic Freedom America's New Year's Resolution
by Veronique de Rugy. It's Christmas time again, and with it come the dreams of better times. Families struggling with the consequences of the most recent recession will be happy to know that there is a simple way to improve their lives and keep or make more money in the process. It's called economic freedom, and the United States used to be very ... MORE
Tim Worstall: Capitalism Will Help The Absolutely Poor
The rising tide that lifts all ships. There’s a tendency for people to think that this greed for filthy lucre that capitalism harnesses so well won’t in fact help those who are absolutely poor. Because those absolutely poor, defined as living on less than $1.90 a day, don’t have much money. So, how and or why would anyone exploit them in order to ... MORE
Absence Of Capitalism Is Environment's Worst Nightmare
by Kerry Jackson. The solutions to global warming — in fact, to all environmental problems, real and perceived — are always antithetical to capitalism. To many who thrill to the global warming scare, capitalism is the cause of climate change. But those who think they would like the environment better without capitalism should try exactly that. ... MORE
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