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10 Facts about World Poverty That Will Shock You

Many people will be shocked by these facts about world poverty…. Photo by Bob Jagendorf 1. World poverty has been cut in half In the past twenty years the world’s acute poverty rate has been slashed in half! Measuring poverty is based on daily consumption, not income. In 1990, 4...
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Regulatory Capture: Wolves Guarding Hen Houses

Regulatory Capture is a  process by which regulatory agencies become dominated and directed by the corporations or special interests they are supposed to be regulating. It’s like putting the mafia in charge of writing regulations for bookmaking. Most generally associated with No...
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Do Sanctions Cause War or Deter It?

At the beginning of the Cold War, George Kennan introduced the idea of “containing” an unfriendly state as part of  his work on U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union. Later the idea of containment was implemented in part through the use of economic sanctions. It was based on two assumpt...
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10 Historical Leaders Who Financially Ruined Their Countries

“Khufu2” by _Khufu.JPG: byderivative work: Gospodar svemira (talk) – _Khufu.JPG. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 1. Pharaoh Khufu of Egypt Khufu was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom. He reigned from around 2589 to 2566 BC. Khufu was ...
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Lobbying and the Misconceptions about It

Lobbyist are often decried as the reason for most of what is wrong with our country, government, and society as a whole. They are those lowdown scoundrels of big moneyed influence and corporate cronyism who buy congressmen as easily as one orders Chinese takeout, and who have sinister...
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Is Price Gouging Fair?

We hear about it all the time. After a natural disaster, or during times of civil unrest such that transpired recently in Ferguson, businesses price gouge items in high demand. Water or a ride away from a dangerous area become expensive commodities. The instinct is to chastise such ac...
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The Ramifications of a Welfare State

The main problem with welfare such as unemployment benefits, or government handouts, is that it de-capitalizes the productive members of society and capitalizes unproductive members. The productive members are the entrepreneurs. Those who predict what goods consumers will demand in th...
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The Truth about the Gender Wage Gap

In an era when girls outperform boys at school and outnumber male students at universities, and when women experience no more practical hindrances than men in achieving anything they want in life, it has become harder to paint women as victims. Feminists have been forced to shift thei...
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10 Best Movies with Capitalist Themes

Coffee’s for closers…….. Here’s the 10 best movies with capitalist themes in no particular order 10. The Pursuit of Happyness Will Smith stars as Chris Gardner in this amazing portrayal of a man dedicated to providing a better life for him and his son. When he ...
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Just what is Capitalism?

What is capitalism? According to many it is a system of exploit where the few and powerful will suck the rest of us dry. Or so the fascists, and communists, and all those who’d like to run your life would have you believe. Capitalism is economic freedom. It is the absence of regulatio...
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I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

— Calvin Coolidge

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