Whenever you allow yourself to become irritable over small things, whenever you are petty or ungrateful you are implicitly behaving as if you’ll live forever. When you allow yourself to …
Eric Lumpkins
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    During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump called the stock market a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and vehemently criticized the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Janet Yellen for being political … 
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    For the vast majority of its history, the United States has been involved in some form of war and military conflict. For 224 years out of its 241-year existence, 93% … 
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    Suffering is an inherent part of life and, as the Buddhists say, to live is to suffer. We will all get sick and experience our bodies deteriorating. We will all … 
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    This year’s college graduating class in the US will graduate with a new record amount of debt. That statement is accurate for every year all the way back to the … 
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    Opponents of free enterprise, of unhampered laissez-faire capitalism, argue that without government intervention and involvement in the economy, businesses will be free to run amok, to exploit consumers, and to … 
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    Since the early 2000s, the notion that sitting is killing you, even if you are physically active, and that there is virtually nothing you can do about it has been … 
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    The United States government seems to have a track record of becoming increasingly and exponentially irresponsible, destructive, and corrupt with each new President. And intuitively, this makes sense. As each … 
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    Anti-capitalists and economic illiterates of all varieties claim that monopoly power is a natural result of free market competition. A monopoly is a company that is the sole provider of … 
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    Democrats and progressives call themselves “pro-choice”, but when it comes to education they ardently support a coercive monopoly for all. These opponents of school choice see school choice as “corporate …