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Agricultural Revolution

10 Achievements of Mankind Made Possible by Economic Freedom

Photo by donnamarijne 1. The Agricultural Revolution Agriculture involving domestication of plants and animals was developed around 12,000 years ago. The Fertile Crescent of Western Asia, Egypt, and India were sites of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had prev...
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Oakland, California.

The 10 Worst US Cities to Live In

Photo by roger4336 10. St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is a major US port in eastern Missouri. The city, whose population is estimated to be around 320,000, is the second largest in the state. Almost 15% of St. Louis’ population is living below the poverty line. Missouri was one of only...
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Washington DC

20 Brilliant Ayn Rand Quotes on Capitalism and Human Rights

Photo by citron_smurf 1. On the Role of Government “The recognition of individual rights entails the banishment of physical force from human relationships: basically, rights can be violated only by means of force. In a capitalist society, no man or group may initiate the use of physic...
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10 Facts about Walmart That Will Shock You

These Facts about Wal-Mart will Surprise You They’re one of the most hated companies. Often called “evil,” Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the nation. Is their reputation earned or undeserved? Photo by FreeVerse Photography 1. Leading Employer of Veterans Wal-Mar...
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October 24

Big Banks and Drug Cartels

Why your cash would likely test positive for drugs It is commonly known that about four out of five federal reserve notes in circulation at any one time will test positive for cocaine residue. Snopes calls them “dollar bills,” but it’s an accepted fact that your cash...
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Kitchen Sink

The Tragedy of the Commons: Why Water is Best Left in Private Hands

Many people, including some who generally support free market principles, consider water to be a human right. To be fair, it is a natural resources that is every bit as important to life as oxygen, which is, of course, free. The overwhelming majority of people in the First World take ...
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Monopoly Money [Explored]

Monopolies: Separating Fact from Fiction

One thing we learn time and time again throughout our public education is that without government monopolies would spawn and gobble up all the capital. We are taught of an age of “robber barons” whose monopolistic greed spurred a new need for government mitigation into the economy. Bu...
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Amsterdam weed

10 Facts on the Economics of Weed

Whether it’s Black Market or Legal, Weed is a Serious Cash Crop From the legal markets thriving in states like Colorado and Washington, to the underground trade that generates billions of Mexican cartels, the economics of weed are crazy. Ganja. Smoke. Dro. Chronic. Spliffage. Th...
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Exam

Why Is Higher Education so Expensive?

One of the first principles that any student of economics learns – or should learn – is that when you subsidize something, you get more of it.  While they often fall short on understanding other principles of economics, liberals sort of understand this one.  They reasoned, “If you get...
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10 Pension Stories That Will Make You Sick

Most people try to avoid being criminals. I believe that even in the darkest depths of any bureaucracy, there are good people who really desire to be “public servants.” This belief can be difficult to maintain when abuses and abusers are exposed but it is important that we reali...
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

— Andrew Jackson

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