10 Ways to Let Your Money Work for You

7. Crack Baby Athletic Association Even though college athletes generate billions of dollars for their schools, their leagues, and the companies they’re involved with, they are not allowed to be compensated. When all the rewards of one’s labors are given to someone else, that’s usually called slavery. South Park decided to demonstrate this with a…

5. Value Value is subjective. A bottle of water is worth a lot more to a man dying of thirst in the desert than it is to the man who lives next to a natural spring. When a natural disaster hits, the media often chastises those who bring in water and food from outside areas…

Restricting lobbying would be unconstitutional and wrong. The right to petition our government is an important part of free speech. This is a representative system, after all, and those lobbyists and whomever funds them have a right to have their voices represented. Restricting lobbying would essentially mean destroying the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has…

Outsourcing — sending manufacturing or services work abroad where it can be done more cheaply — can be a tough sell in the best of times. It’s even more of a challenge when jobs in the U.S. are already hard to find, making it painful to think of precious jobs being shipped overseas. If only…

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 Nobel laureate George Stigler and postulated as an actual theory in the early 1970’s,…