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Environmentalists Are Anti-Human

Blog07/23/2019Jonathan Newman

People use the marketplace to deliver what others need and want. Environmentalism, on the other hand, is built around denying human needs.

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Escaping Poverty — Not Inequality — Is What Matters

Poverty

Blog06/27/2019Chris Calton

Some people get richer faster than other people. But what really matters is increasing access to everyday necessities (and luxuries) for everyone.

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Elizabeth Warren's Antitrust Crusade is an Economic and Civil Liberties Nightmare

Big GovernmentU.S. HistoryMonopoly and Competition

Blog06/22/2019Dominick Armentano

There is almost no economic problem, real or imagined, that cannot be made worse by inappropriate government regulation. Antitrust is no exception.

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Earth to Tesla: Elon Musk Has Few Ideas Beyond Begging for Government Money

Bureaucracy and RegulationCorporate Welfare

Blog06/12/2019James Lowe

Elon Musk uses corporate welfare and "public-private partnerships" to create the false impression he is an actual entrepreneur.

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Europe's Strength Lies In the True Diversity of Its Nations

Blog06/01/2019Kai Weiss

The best EU is an EU in which free and sovereign nation-states voluntarily come together to cooperate.

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Economists Have Been "Useful Idiots" for the Green Socialists

The EnvironmentSocialismStrategy

Blog05/31/2019Robert P. Murphy

Environmental activists in US politics are making it quite clear that their goal is nothing short of a socialist economic revolution.

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Every Law "Legislates Morality" — From Abortion to Minimum Wage

Blog05/30/2019Ryan McMaken

Virtually all laws involve "legislating morality." When people use this phrase they often really just mean "I want laws to back my version of morality, not yours."

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End School Compulsory-Attendance Laws

Bureaucracy and Regulation

Blog05/25/2019Jacob G. Hornberger

Just as people shouldn’t be forced to send their children to church, they shouldn’t be forced to send their children to a state-approved organization for secular education and training.