It's so unfair that people have to go to bad government schools! she says. And so she moved to the burbs to get a good education; and so used her political juice to get a friend of the family into a charter school. (Charter schools are not the ideal at all, but at...
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Physics and the Economic Calculation Problem
by Logan Chipkin | Feb 27, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Throughout the nineteenth century, economic socialism was given its intellectual foundations by the Utopian Socialists such as Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, and by the ‘Scientific’ Socialists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Austrian economics was only founded in...

Common Objections to Free Markets – REBUTTED! Antony Davies and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog, Don't Tread on Anyone
Antony Davies is an associate professor of economics at Duquesne University and Mercatus Affiliated Senior Scholar at George Mason University. His primary research interests include econometrics and public policy.
Find Mr. Davies at his website: antolin-davies.com
His podcast: www.wordsandnumbers.org
And on Learn Liberty: http://www.learnliberty.org/speakers/antony-davies/
Rich People Suck
by Scott Shearin | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog
Barack Obama: “If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Bernie Sanders: “I don’t think that billionaires should exist.” AOC: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars. People become billionaires only by...
Socialism in Education
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
It would be virtually impossible to find a better example of socialism here in the United States than the public schooling systems that exist in every U.S. state. Ironically, it is this socialist system that is primarily responsible for the widespread belief among...
Foreign Aid Just Empowers Corrupt Regimes. End It.
by José Niño | Feb 13, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Senate’s vote to acquit Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment this month brought a much-needed end to the tiring impeachment saga America has been subject to in the last few months. The impeachment controversy arose when President Donald Trump initially...
China’s Economic Schemes Hurt the Chinese Most of All
by Patrick Barron | Feb 12, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In his State of the Union Address—February 4, 2020—President Trump outlined his reasons for punishing nations that manipulate their economies in order to achieve some internal policy goal, such as China. The president claimed that such manipulation was unfair and...
In A True Free Market, It’s Hard To Be Rich
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 7, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
One interesting feature of libertarian theory is its ability to offer a critique of corporate capitalism from the perspective of laissez faire economics. The political economics of societies with large corporations are troublesome, and if you read left-wing literature...
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Reinventing the Economy w/Mike Maharrey
Mike Maharrey is back, and we discuss the Trump Administration’s plans for economic stability. Alp
Finland Pokes the Bear
President Stubb in Finland wants to expand the armed forces in Finland. Take a look at Finland on a map. Largest contiguous border with Russia in Europe. A population of 5.6 million. 5.6 million in one of the largest countries in Europe. The international border...
Carrier Follies Continue Apace
The military press seems to be coming around to the conclusion that has been floated here at the Institute for quite some time. The aircraft carrier has seen its time and it is time to retire the tired and anachronistic technology. Poor concepts, design and planning;...
Child Effigies
There was a time when Rebecca Black and her song, ‘Friday’ was a meme. It was popular for millions of people to tease, torment, stalk and threaten the life of a thirteen year old girl because of a music video, the digital mob was hungry for another child effigy to...
The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil
The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal resident of the United States, is horrifying not just for him and his pregnant wife, a U.S. citizen, but as a sign of things to come....
Roast in Hell Karl Marx
On this day when Karl Marx became a good communist.
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