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A Permanent Solution to Deep State Tyranny

by Keith Knight | Sep 4, 2022 | Featured Articles

The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually beneficial voluntary exchange. These two controlled experiments, where mostly free markets competed against mostly state-controlled economies, have yielded an undeniable result: the more free, the more prosperous. Maybe that was then, and this is now, and things are totally different, which is why we need a big government? Maybe we...

Freedom = Social Cooperation = Superabundance (feat. Marian Tupy)

by Keith Knight | Sep 3, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/L1WIoXexTmw After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at “time prices,” which represent the length of time that people must work to buy something. - Superabundance.com Marian L. Tupy is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, coauthor of Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting, coauthor of the...

Why Was Trump Never Impeached for Murdering Civilians?

by Keith Knight | Sep 2, 2022 | Blog

The corporate press, along with university professors, Democrats, intelligence agencies, Hollywood elites, blue check Twitter, Regime Libertarians, Regime Republicans, and k-12 school teachers often have no quarrels about saying Trump is evil. Usual reasons include: conspiring with Russia to steal the 2016 election, quid-pro-quoing Ukraine via phone, January 6th, and conspiring with Russia again in 2020 with Hunter Biden's laptop. Why focus on trivial (not to mention fake) nonsense when we have documented evidence that he took part in operations that murdered civilians? Because the...

How to Tell if a Politician is Economically Literate (feat. Per Bylund, Ph.D.)

by Keith Knight | Aug 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/x8g6W0JRV1s Core to understanding the economy is recognizing that it is about human actions and interactions. In fact, the economy is people acting and interacting. It is little or nothing else. We tend to think of the economy in terms of resources, machines, businesses, and perhaps jobs. But that is a simplification that is misleading. Those are important, but they are all means to ends. The economy is about using means to attain ends. To put it differently, it is how we act to satisfy our wants, to make us better off . Simply put, the economy is about creating value. - Per...

The Most Important Graph in the World & Why Socialists Hate It

by Keith Knight | Aug 27, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/2QrYDV9QFTg (Source: Mark Perry at the American Institute for Economic Research) Over that period (1980-2018), the world’s population rose by 71.2 percent, yet the average working time required to earn enough money to buy 50 kinds of energy, food, raw materials, and metals fell by 71.6 percent. Put differently, the amount of effort required to buy 1 basket of the 50 commodities in 1980 bought 3.5 baskets in 2018. As we will explain, abundance occurs when the nominal hourly income increases faster than the nominal price of a resource. Furthermore, when the abundance of...

Making Governments Compete for You: Free Cities Foundation

by Keith Knight | Aug 21, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/AQ2zjwh8ehs Any statute or administrative regulation necessarily makes actions illegal that are not overt initiations of crimes or torts according to libertarian theory. Every statute or administrative rule is therefore illegitimate and itself invasive and a criminal interference with the property rights of noncriminals. – Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Economic Controversies (2011, Mises Institute), p. 406. BitChute Archive Flote Spotify

10 Debunked Conspiracy Theories Democrats Still Believe!

by Keith Knight | Aug 16, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/DG99R2dB8eg The problem with political decisions isn’t that most of us don’t get our own way. It’s also that these decisions are usually imposed on us against our will, by threats of violence...Democracy, as we practice it, is unjust. We expose innocent people to high degrees of risk because we put their fate in the hands of ignorant, misinformed, irrational, biased, and sometimes immoral decision makers. – Jason Brennan, Ph.D., Against Democracy (2016, Princeton University Press), pp. 230, 240. BitChute Archive Flote Spotify

How to End the Culture War

by Keith Knight | Aug 15, 2022 | Featured Articles

The following is a section from The Voluntaryist Handbook, organized by Keith Knight. There exist two blatant contradictions which roughly ninety-nine percent of intellectuals, journalists, and voters erroneously believe. On the one hand, they say that the free market must be regulated in order to prevent monopolies. It is assumed that these monopolies would have such great power over the market that their customers would be forced to settle for products far more expensive than, and inferior to, those that would be offered under competitive market conditions. On the other hand, these...