The Meaning of Market Democracy
The Free Market 24, no. 12 ( 2004) The democracy of the market is not the democracy that Plato spoke of in his Republic (c. 370 BC) as "a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a
How Facebook Turned its Market Success Into a Culture War on America
Corporate America—from Facebook to Google to Major League Baseball—got rich by giving the consumers what they want. Now these big firms will use their riches to crush their ideological enemies. That's life in a "mixed economy." Original Article: "How Facebook Turned
What They Must Learn Now
Twenty twenty was the year college changed forever. How many US universities have been mortally wounded? Covid was the pretense. But the writing was on the wall for decades. Skyrocketing tuition. Useless majors and degrees. Leftist ideologues masquerading as professors. Woke
How Defamation Suits Are Used to Stifle Free Speech
The average American can be forgiven for assuming that he or she can freely criticize the government and government personnel without fear of being sued by the government for libel or slander. This is indeed true most of the time. But
India’s Next Wave of Covid-19 and a New Crisis – “The Black, White and Yellow Fungus”
From the cases that have been reported, India’s death count has crossed 3 lakh, with almost half, close to 1.4 lakh deaths being reported in the last seven weeks alone.A false sense of normalcy that crept in towards the end
Price Discovery is Alive and Well in Crypto
“If the market continues to see wild swings based on Elon Musk tweets, it’s going to be a big setback for this asset class,” Matt Maley, chief market strategist for Miller Tabak + Co. told Bloomberg. “The fact that it
Why Corporate Lobbyists and Special Interest Groups Won’t Go Away
Throughout much of human history, a political ruler was often considered to be only as good as his ability to distribute gifts, booty, and other material rewards to his most valuable and loyal servants. In the “barbarian” days of northern Europe,
The One with The Reunion: F.R.I.E.N.D.S Cast Reunites for A Special Episode
On September 22, 1994, the American television industry saw something incredible. The story began with a snotty runaway bride catching up with her high school friend in a local coffee shop. The rest is history.‘F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ was an American sitcom created
Governments Don’t Hate Gold Because It’s Gold. They Hate It Because It’s Not Fiat Money.
[This article is excerpted from chapter 17 of Human Action.] Men have chosen the precious metals gold and silver for the money service on account of their mineralogical, physical, and chemical features. The use of money in a market economy is
The Origins of Keynesian Economics: How Did It Get So Popular?
The British Austrian economist W.H. Hutt was a great critic of Keynes’s economic theories. However, his speculations on why the New Economics revolution happened are even more fascinating. Hutt shows it to be a fundamentally dishonest undertaking. Keynes held a