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The Patent, an Enemy of Innovation
by Dakota Hensley | Jul 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The foundation of our economy is the patent. If you invent something, you need a patent. We assume that without patent law, society would be stuck in an economic malaise. We'd be stuck in the Dark Ages. However, that isn't true. The opposite is. Patents hold our...
News Roundup 7/20/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 20, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Army officials said the service will fall about 10,000 soldiers short of its planned end strength for this fiscal year, and prospects for next year are grimmer. AP The U.S. Department of Defense is nearing an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp for around 375...
Top Senators Back DoJ Plan to Use RICO Laws to Target Russian Assets
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 19, 2022 | News Roundup
The Department of Justice consulted with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a proposal to use laws designed to target the mafia to seize Russian assets. The DoJ legal scheme won immediate support from the committee's top members. The Department's plan calls for the...
A Vital Book for Sane People
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 18, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The top seller on Amazon for books devoted to war and peace as of this writing, Scott Horton's newest offering, Hotter than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is a timely must read. As Washington barrels heedlessly along into Cold War II, the American public...
Turning Off the Saudi Faucet in Yemen
by James R. Webb | Jul 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In modern dating parlance, “ghosting” is when someone suddenly stops returning your calls and seemingly vanishes as if your involvement was merely an apparition. Moreover, if the “ghost” unexpectedly returns, trust is undermined, and a continuation of any relationship...
NATO & EU Seeking to Track Arms Sent to Ukraine
by Will Porter | Jul 13, 2022 | News Roundup
As Western nations continue to funnel billions in weapons and other military hardware into Ukraine, some within the NATO bloc and the EU are calling for a system to track the arms, raising concerns they will disappear into the black market.
Iran Responds to US Claim That It Is Preparing to Send Drones to Russia
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 13, 2022 | News Roundup
Iran has responded to a claim made by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that Tehran was preparing to transfer hundreds of drones to Russia for use in Ukraine.
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The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
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