Laissez-faire is an economic philosophy which emphasizes a social system based upon individual rights, including private property rights, and voluntary exchange. The principles underlying this system are responsible for some …
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Health
Another Blow to Obamacare: Eight States Now Faced With Single Insurance Option in 2018 Enrollment
As the Obamacare individual mandate comes under threat of repeal from the Senate tax bill, other nails in the coffin of the law are being hammered in by insurance companies. …
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News
US Attitudes Towards Socialism Survey Reveals Americans, Millennials Have a Lot to Learn
by Alex McGeeby Alex McGeeThe Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation published its annual report on US attitudes towards socialism in October. The report’s findings largely show that Americans still have a lot to learn …
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On the campaign trail, candidate Trump often derided the Federal Reserve System for its easy money policy, and its former and current chairmen Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen for their …
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Once a given economy has been subjected to the nightmare of hyperinflation, one would think everyone who survived would have learned their lesson. But if you made that assumption about …
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The beleaguered socialist government of Venezuela, flirting with defaulting on its debt obligations as its economy flounders, intends to restructure its financial obligations to investors, estimated to range between $100 …
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Inflation, or the debasement of the currency, is not new. Political elites and ruling institutions all throughout history have been guilty of this mass-scale pick-pocketing of the people. Our current-day …
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Venezuela’s government-run oil company, PDVSA, is falling behind on its debt payments. On Friday it will have to pay its creditors $985 million, and less than a week later it …
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Cars are increasingly becoming less mechanical and more electronic. Twenty years ago, many cars still had throttle cables that connected the accelerator pedal to the throttle. Nowadays the accelerator pedal …
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Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have been both lauded and criticized recently. However, the one thing everyone can agree on is that the technology behind these cryptocurrencies, called “blockchain,” …