Topic: Economic Education

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Economic Education, History

Taming the Dictator Within, Part 2

– April 10, 2022

“Your experience of reality is directly related to the mindset of true or false individualism that you embrace. When you release your tight grip on your thinking, you allow your life to reveal what your Dictator Within has fabricated.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Economic Education, History

Taming the Dictator Within, Part 1

– April 9, 2022

“Beware of treating human beings, in an economy or organization or your personal life, as problems to be solved. We are imperfect material; our errors are corrected in the course of a social process.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Crisis, Economic Education, Free Markets

Working from Home Is Not for Everyone

– April 8, 2022

“Organizations should aim to develop managerial structures that engage, enable, and empower workers rather than institute egalitarian systems that eliminate guidance and growth and limit opportunities for the decentralization of power.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson

Economic Education, Free Markets, Inflation

Wild Meat Markets

– April 6, 2022

“Sensible deregulation worked for the airlines and their customers, is working for sex workers, and can work for America’s meat lovers too.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Economic Education, Free Markets, Immigration

High Wages in Markets Are a Result Of – and a Reflection Of – High Worker Productivity

– April 6, 2022

“High wages are a result of – and a reflection of – high productivity. And so contrary to widespread fears of many protectionists, high-productivity workers have nothing to fear from competition with low-productivity workers.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Art and Culture, Economic Education, Free Markets, Media

If You’re Focused On Amazon’s Competition, You’re Missing the Future

– April 5, 2022

“We despise dominance to our everlasting detriment. Commercial dominance in the present is the surest sign of future progress. This truth was plainly alluded to by Frontline’s producers, but not grasped.” ~ John Tamny

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government, International

Economic Freedom Is the Way Forward

– April 4, 2022

“There is nothing ‘simplistic’ about adopting the entrepreneurship-and-competition path as the way forward for the American economy. It not only requires a sophisticated understanding of problems, but also demands the courage to act.” ~ Samuel Gregg

Central Banking, Economic Education, Monetary Policy

Why the Money Supply Should (Sometimes) Change

– April 4, 2022

“In the long run, the money supply isn’t that important. But in the short- to medium-run, it’s pretty important. There are good reasons for the money supply to change.” ~ Alexander William Salter

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government, Taxation

As Fred Smith Steps Down as FedEx CEO, President Biden Steps In It

– April 3, 2022

“Against the longest of odds, billionaires rush a much better future into the present to all of our betterment. Fred Smith’s amazing accomplishments vivify this truth.” ~ John Tamny

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Regulation

Fear of Hobgoblins Doesn’t Justify Zoning

– April 1, 2022

“Zoning gives government massive power, which has been used arbitrarily. Self-interest, self-selection and differing transportation and infrastructure needs resolve many scare stories when property rights are defended.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Art and Culture, Economic Education, Financial Markets

Carl Icahn’s Creative Destruction

– March 31, 2022

“Carl Icahn is a tour-de-force, relentlessly propelling creative destruction over his nearly 60-year career. Creative destruction is sometimes painful but ultimately good, and activist investors like Icahn should be celebrated rather than maligned.” ~ David Waugh

Authoritarianism, Economic Education, Free Trade, Government

Microchips and Potato Chips

– March 30, 2022

“The fact that we produce more Z doesn’t imply that we thereby can afford to acquire and use more Z. This reality is inescapable whether ‘Z’ stands for potato chips or for microchips.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux