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FeaturedGovernment
Society Is Not a Family, Government Is Not a Parent
by Richard Ebeling July 18, 2017Few things are as clear as the bankruptcy of the political “left.”
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/Energy
Free Market Energy Vs The Big Government Cronyism And Subsidies Merry-Go-Round
by Seton Motley June 1, 2017How we power our nation should be, like everything else, as free market as possible. May the most effective, cheapest energy sources win
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Listening to the rhetoric coming from the Trump Administration, it would be easy to assume that America’s balance of trade deficit is causing market misery and economic harm to the people of the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Budgets/Taxes
A Tax Cut – Should Not Include A Stupid, Economy-Debilitating Tax Increase
by Seton Motley May 13, 2017President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress have both put forward tax reform plans that contain lots and lots of really great ideas.
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It is not capitalism that has failed black America. Rather it is the state and its interventions in the market. And the failure for this to have been seen is the greatest illusion that pervades American society.
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EconomicsFeaturedLibertyPolitics
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx, the Man Behind the Communist Revolution
by Richard Ebeling February 15, 2017How did Karl Marx become this advocate of mass murder and dictatorship in place of liberal democracy and social peace?
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FeaturedGovernmentPolitics
The 25th Anniversary of the End of the Soviet Union
by Richard Ebeling December 25, 2016December 24, 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the formal end of the Soviet Union as a political entity on the map of the world.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Free Trade, Crony Capitalism, and the Benefits from Commercial Society
by Richard Ebeling December 21, 2016Adam Smith’s central contribution to economic understanding was surely his demonstration that under an institutional arrangement of individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary exchange the self-interested conduct of market participants could be shown to be consistent with a general betterment of the human condition.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: Adam Smith on Moral Sentiments, Division of Labor and the Invisible Hand
by Richard Ebeling December 15, 2016Adam Smith is, without doubt, the most famous member of that group of Scottish Moral Philosophers who contributed to the development of social and economic understanding of the market economy and how economic liberty makes human prosperity possible.
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EconomicsFeatured
Thanksgiving Was a Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
by Richard Ebeling November 23, 2016This year, when we sit around our dining table with our family and friends, let us also remember that what we are really celebrating is the birth of free men and free enterprise in that New World of America.
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Last night, The Heartland Institute’s “movie night” featured The Call of the Entrepreneur, a beautifully filmed tribute to entrepreneurship and the essential role it plays in securing the blessings of…
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EconomicsFeatured
Entrepreneurship, the Market Economy and Human Betterment
by Richard Ebeling October 31, 2016Through almost all mankind’s history, the human condition was one of abject poverty and hardship.
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Economics
Economic Ideas: The Ancient Romans, Who Went from Rule of Law to Corrupting Inflation and Price Controls
by Richard Ebeling October 5, 2016Studying the ancient Romans, we find their main contribution has been seen to be the legal order upon which is founded part of the Western economic traditions of property and exchange.