"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." Ever since corporate raider Gordon Gekko, the lead character in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), made that declaration, left-wing opponents of the market economy have regarded that one-liner as the only rebuttal required...
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The Lab Leak Hypothesis, Evolution, Innovation, & Rational Optimism. Matt Ridley & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 16, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/DPEP1TGyqqQ The cumulative acceleration of knowledge by specialists that allows us each to consume more and more different things by each producing fewer and fewer, is I submit, the central story of humanity. - Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist, p....
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Episode 546: The ‘Big City’ vs ‘Small Town’ War w/ ‘Rural Rebellion’ Author Ross Benes
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 5, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
46 Minutes Some Strong Language Ross Benes is a journalist and researcher who has written for The Wall Street Journal, Adweek, AdExchanger, Quartz, Business Insider, and Esquire. Pete invited Ross to come on to talk about the subject of his new book, "Rural...
WSJ: Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog
MILAN—In the town of Coccaglio, an hour’s drive east of here, the local nursing home lost over a third of its residents in March. None of the 24 people who died there were tested for the new coronavirus. Nor were the 38 people who died in another nursing home in the...
Wall Street Journal: Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin Continue to Show Results
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
In other words, it's time for rioters to burn the FDA to the ground. Only today, the 30th of March, have they finally approved this common -- ahem, patent-expired -- drug for use against the deadly pandemic. Oh but you people love government so much, don't you? Make...
Wall Street Journal: NY Hospital Prepares to Begin Triaging Patients
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog
NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional...
Refuting Iran Myths
by Scott Horton | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog
Pete Quinones interviews me about the common narratives about Iran in Iraq and so forth; specifically addressing a hawk's interview on the Joe Rogan show and a recent hawkish piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Ex CEO of Overstock Has Definitely Been Red-pilled
by Steven Woskow | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog
From Zerohedge Patrick Byrne the ex-CEO of Overstock sold his entire holding of stock totaling 90 million dollars. What did he do with the money? "...after paying tens of millions in taxes (after all, “We didn’t build that,” right?) by Friday the rest will be in...
Stock Market Predictions For 2019 (What Analysts Say And What The Market Is Telling Us)
by Mike Swanson | Jan 1, 2019 | Blog
We saw some wild stock market swings in the last three months of last year. Some say these are just “buy the dip” opportunities while others see the rally at the end of the year as a dead cat bounce on the technical analysis charts. The Wall Street analysts are all...
Podcast: My Santa Adventure and Peace on Earth
by Jim Bovard | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, and Happy Festivus to everyone! I appreciated all the feedback I received from my online critics on what would be the perfect beer for me to toast the holidays. When I worked as a Santa Claus in Boston in 1977, I met a lot of zany...
FPF #274 – Trump Runs Cover for MbS guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 21, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Trump's statement on the Khashoggi murder. The statement is critical of Iran and highlights the benefits of maintaining the US/Saudi relationship status quo. Will breaks down the statement and debunks Trump's lies. A recent Wall...
Congress Lifts a Stress Off the Financial System
by Eric Schuler | May 31, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
Congress has finally taken action to liberalize the nation's financial system. The bill was S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. It passed both houses with a surprising degree of bipartisan support and was signed by President...
Swan Song of the Central Bankers Part 1: Last Week Wasn’t an Error
by David Stockman | Feb 13, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last week's twin 1,000 point plunges on the Dow were not errors. Instead, these close-coupled massacres, which wiped out $4 trillion of global market cap in two days, marked the beginning of a bear market that will be generational, not a temporary cyclical downleg....
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Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
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