Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label capitalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Quote of the Day:The Virtue of a Free System: The Consumer’s Plebiscite

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The test of an economic system lies in the choices it offers, the alternatives that are open to the people living under it. When choices ...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

The Socialist Illusions of "Change": Ludwig von Mises on the Ethics of Capitalism

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The election byword for any aspiring political candidate has always been about “CHANGE”. Yet the problem of populist clamor for C-H-A-N...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

Quote of the Day: The Worst Environmental Calamity Is The Absence of Capitalism

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Filth, hunger, short life expectancy, illiteracy, subjugation of women, sanguinary conflicts over scarce resources – these horrors are not...
Thursday, August 06, 2015

Quote of the Day: Capitalism is Love Thy Neighbor

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Capitalism is not a “system” like democracy or a composting toilet. It is not something that anyone designed. It is not something that can...
Friday, June 26, 2015

Quote of the Day: From The Capitalist as the Ultimate Philanthropist

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At the end of the day, there are only four things you can do with your money: You can spend it, pay it to the IRS, give it away or reinves...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

No Middle of the Road between Capitalism and Socialism and between Individualism and Collectivism

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In the past I have pointed out why there can be no compromise between capitalism and socialism. This is for the simple reason that every b...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

The Pope and Populist Politics

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Pope Francis plays populist politics by supposedly taking on an economic stand . Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories wh...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Markets In Everything: Invest in your Star Athlete

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How about investing in a financial security linked to the income stream of financial performance of your favorite professional athlete?  ...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

The Virtue of Failure: Billionaire Sara Blakely’s Success Recipe

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In the realm of capitalism, failures serve as stepping stones to success as I pointed out here here and here Take for example, billio...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Rock Star Bono Embraces Capitalism

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Rock star and U2’s lead singer, Paul David Hewson popularly known as Bono, who formerly advocated alleviating poverty through government f...
Friday, August 09, 2013

Quote of the Day: Why Capitalism is Awesome

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But the true genius of the market economy isn’t that it produces prominent, highly publicized goods to inspire retail queues, or the medic...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Video: Gary North on the World's Transition to the Modern Economy

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Via BBC's Hans Rosling , I have previously posted a video showing the modern economy's dramatic growth transformation which begun ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Warren Buffett: Bet on Natural Juices of Capitalism

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For all the repeated calls of taxing the rich and the need for interventions, former value investor and now political entrepreneur (crony...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Quote of the Day: Hayek’s Road to Serfdom is about Resisting Change

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Hayek never argued that the slightest deviation from laissez-faire capitalism launches a society on an unstoppable march toward tyranny. ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Emergence of Capitalist Cuba?

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I previously pointed out that the post-Fidel Castro Cuba has broken the proverbial ice of electing to take the road of economic liberalizat...
Monday, April 16, 2012

How Capitalism Brought about Modern Marriage

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Contractual rights is the foundation of modern (monogamist) marriage which has been traced to the capitalist roots. The following excerpt ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Chart of the Day: Capital Accumulation is Key to Economic Prosperity

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Professor Steve Landsburg posted on his blog a graph from a textbook of his colleague exhibiting the tight correlations between the incre...
Monday, April 09, 2012

China’s Road to Capitalism Lacks the Knowledge Revolution

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A narrative of China’s path to progress according to Nobel laureate Professor Ronald Coase and Professor Ning Wang at the Wall Street Journa...
Thursday, April 05, 2012

Lenten Thoughts for the Day: My Salute to Holy Week Entrepreneurs

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Celebrating the Lenten tradition does not eliminate human needs and wants. So while some entrepreneurs take these as opportunities to bene...