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Imagine someone tells you he believes the economy is going to collapse tomorrow. He assures you the stock market is going to be obliterated.

Here’s a simple follow-up question to ask him: “How much of your own money have you risked shorting the market?” fee.org/articles/many-…

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Economic redistribution spreads a static amount of wealth. Economic growth, enabled by capitalism, creates more wealth for everyone.

The average Communist may have looked wealthier the day they received the stolen earnings of the bourgeoisie, but how did they look by 1980?

Economic redistribution spreads a static amount of wealth. Economic growth, enabled by capitalism, creates more wealth for everyone. The average Communist may have looked wealthier the day they received the stolen earnings of the bourgeoisie, but how did they look by 1980?
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For years, Gary Lardizabal made a living delivering food in the Seattle metro. But he says a new ordinance is putting his livelihood at risk. The law, which was designed to increase pay for food delivery drivers, has resulted in a collapse of food orders. fee.org/articles/seatt…

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The public treasury is being used to pay off the student loans of families who represent the top 5% of earners in the United States.

This would be an unjust, senseless, and reckless policy even in fat economic times. But the times are hardly fat. fee.org/articles/house…

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“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means, as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'”

– F.A. Hayek

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“The government does not in any accurate sense ‘represent’ the majority of people. But, even if it did, even if 70% of the people decided to murder the remaining 30%, this would still not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.”

– Murray Rothbard

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“Inventions only become innovations when the right institutions exist to make them improve the lives of the masses. That is what capitalism did and continues to do every single day. And that’s why capitalism has been so good for the poor.”

– Steven Horwitz

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“One of the beauties of a free price system is that the prices that bring the information also provide both an incentive to react to the information and the means to do so.”

– Milton Friedman

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No, Milei Is Not a Fascist | PraxBen • Wrecker

Despite the accusations that Javier Milei is a fascist in libertarian clothes, many of his reforms have been successful in reversing some of the damage done to Argentina's economy by real fascists.

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