The Financial Crisis: Lessons Not Learned
The financial crisis of 2008-9 — accompanied by the Great Recession was caused by government intervention, mainly in mortgage finance and the housing sector.
How Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Objectivism Can Rescue Hayek’s Economics
In economics Hayek is a radical; but in philosophy, unlike Ayn Rand, Hayek is a conservative.
Designer Babies: The Real X-Men
Soon, some of you will try to make “better babies.” Already, people pay labs to examine embryos so they can pick ones with DNA they like. Some screen for gender or eye color. Some screen out certain diseases. So far, they’ve been limited to selecting...Philosopher Robert Mayhew on Ayn Rand’s Novel: We the Living
We the Living is not about Soviet Russia in 1925–its a novel about any dictatorship, anywhere, and hopefully it will prevent one in the United States.
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels (Exploring Minds)
In this full episode of “Exploring Minds”, Michele Carroll and Alex Epstein explore his reasons behind writing “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. Alex breaks down the importance of energy, our current options available to use for energy, and...“Hipster Antitrust”: The Assault on Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon
Hipster antitrust taken to its logical extreme involves the government using its power over firms to make them do whatever politicians feel like.
Is Capitalism Worth Saving? The Economic Argument for Capitalism
Any social system must coordinate production and cooperation, and must also implement a system of distribution that participants perceive as sustainable, which often means morally fair. As Nobelist Elinor Ostrom demonstrated, there are many and widely varied social...How To Create Social Conflict: Let The Government Decide
The prime feature of political decision-making is that it’s a zero-sum game.
CAPITALISM REVIEW
- Birds of a Collectivist Feather Flock Together
- Say Yes To Data Centers
- Verifying Universal Mail In Ballots
- Chip Joyce: Fauci Document Archive
- George Reisman: Western civilization is open to everyone
- Tracinski Loses Congressional Bid in Virginia
- Minnesota ICE Resistance: Creating a powder keg of citizen vs. federal law enforcement
- Shooting of Renee Good: Irresponsible to Immediately Proclaim This a Murder
- America Last: Fuentes’s Prime Supporters are Foreign Bots That Boost His Influence
- America is Not Fundamentally a Christian Nation
- “Warm Collectivism” vs. “Frigid” Individualism
- CNN Scott Jennings on the “epidemic of political vigilantism”