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Political paternalists presume to know better than each one of us how we should live our lives, and want to use the power of government to impose their visions on the rest of us

In spite of the declared “independence” of the Federal Reserve from the political control of either Congress or the White House, America’s central bank is a branch of the U.S. government that is responsible for setting monetary policy.

Coronavirus is causing a fundamental shift in the way Americans live their lives. The question is: what comes next?

Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button.

Socialism is the antisocial system of politics over people, governmental power instead of peaceful and free association, and a handful of imposed political plans instead of a pluralism of as many plans as there are people in the world.

The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions.

After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning.

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, once said “the chief business of the American people is business.”

When will Paul Krugman adapt to reality?

Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed?

The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.

One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and impact of “capitalism” on society.

Politically we seem to be living in some trying times.