Anyone who has ever tried to start a business knows the difficulty in just getting it off the ground. Ignoring licensing, etc., consider that most potential entrepreneurs start off in a financial hole. If you have to hire employees this will be your biggest expense....
How badly off course is the USA when the Chinese Communist Party's essentially fascist dictatorship can credibly laugh and mock our failures like this? The Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump governments have driven this country into the ground with their horrible foreign,...
https://youtu.be/taUoIW1nMmc (images from New Zealand and Hong Kong- two of the three most freest economies in the world, source: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/human-freedom-index-2019-rev.pdf) Capitalism: A social system based on the explicit...
“It is not from the benevolence of the mask maker, glove maker, or hand-sanitizer maker that we expect our person protective equipment, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk...
Could it be that we’re simply a victim of our own technology and the hubris acquired in response to its perceived capabilities?
Libertarian political philosophy, as a practical matter, does not offer a prefabricated set of solutions to collective problems. Rather, it's a liberty-based approach to ameliorating collective problems that begins by acknowledging (among other things) the dispersion,...
The recent coronavirus panic has provided a stark reminder about the scarcity of economic goods. From people hoarding and stockpiling common household items like toilet paper and hand sanitizer to the downright morbid reports of doctors in Italy and Spain having to...
Libertarians have always acknowledged that emergencies -- severe extraordinary conditions of limited duration -- can justify actions that would be unacceptable under normal circumstances. This doesn't mean that all the rights-based rules disappear, only that some...
