Growing up in a small, dense, North New Jersey town, grocery stores dotted nearly every other corner. But that didn’t stop our family from running to the local dollar store to pick up discount household necessities to last us until the next paycheck. Recently, local governments have been trying to take that option away from … Continue reading Banning Dollar Stores Hurts Underserved Communities
Fidel Castro, the dictator who ruled Cuba with an iron fist for almost six decades, has been dead for more than three years now. Unfortunately, his regime didn’t die alongside him. The Caribbean’s largest island is still under the burdensome yoke of communism. Since Castro took over in 1959, Castroism has been characterized by the … Continue reading How Cuba’s Dictatorship Hides its Dead Children
This autumn will mark 30 years since Margaret Thatcher departed 10 Downing Street as the first woman and longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th Century. What an amazing tenure it was! A "Do-It-Yourself" Vision In 1979, the Iron Lady assumed the premiership of a country riven with labor strife, racked by stagflation and run … Continue reading Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes
Looks like another federally backed solar energy plant has gone bust. Bloomberg News reports, “A $1 Billion Solar Plant Was Obsolete Before It Ever Went Online.” In 2011 the $1 billion [Crescent Dunes] project was to be the biggest solar plant of its kind, and it looked like the future of renewable power. Citigroup Inc. and other financiers … Continue reading Taxpayers Eat Another Solar Energy Flop
While Sanders portrays his vision as moving the US economy closer to Scandinavian socialism, which in reality is better characterized as free-market capitalism with a large transfer sector, there is reason to believe that his election would move the country in the direction of left-wing Latin populism. What is Populism? According to Kirk Hawkins, director … Continue reading Why Bernie Sanders’s Populism Is a Threat to Economic Freedom
One of Bernie Sanders’ organizers, Kyle Jurek, wants you to believe that Soviet gulags were not so bad. If Sanders gets elected, Jurek assures us reeducation gulags are coming to America for Trump voters and others opposed to Sanders’ socialist agenda. Jurek is no better than a Holocaust denier. Around 3 million people died in … Continue reading Bernie Sanders’ Staffers Don’t Know the Dark Side of Soviet History
Ponzi and pyramid schemes are defined as fraudulent investing scams that promise high returns with little risk to investors. In order for these types of schemes to work, an influx of new investors is needed for the funds to be available to pay the old investors. When someone claims that their social security benefits are … Continue reading Why Young Americans Shouldn’t Count on Social Security
As new cases of COVID-19 continue to be diagnosed in the US and abroad, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced the state is prepared to introduce its own brand of hand sanitizer, free of charge, called NYS Clean hand sanitizer. At the press conference unveiling the brand, Cuomo remarked, “This is a superior … Continue reading Why New York’s Hand Sanitizer Stunt Won’t Work
After suffering from the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), China appears to have succeeded at turning around its spread through the use of highly coercive measures such as widespread home confinement of both healthy and sick persons. Can societies with more individual liberty match its success without losing their character? South Korea, a more … Continue reading Let Americans Test for Coronavirus If You Want to Contain It
Some people believe that becoming rich is a question of luck. I disagree. Whether chance presents you with a good opportunity or not is not the key question. Rather: Do you actually recognize the opportunity in front of you? Or do you fail to appreciate it for what it is? As the Swiss author Max … Continue reading The 7 Most Important Factors for Getting Rich
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