by Dan Mitchell | Oct 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Every so often, I’ll grouse about media sloppiness/media bias, most often from the Washington Post or New York Times, but also from other outlets (Reuters, Time, ABC, the Associated Press, etc). Let’s add to the collection today by perusing an interesting – but...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Townhall on September 23, 2020. For a long time, other nations have been free riders on America’s innovative pharmaceutical industry. Worse, they have enacted socialist price controls to limit what they pay knowing that the largest market would...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 15, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Back in 2017, I shared this video explaining why capitalism is unquestionably the best way to help poor people. I’m recycling the video today because it’s a great introduction for a discussion about how best to help poor people. As part of my Eighth Theorem of...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Sep 13, 2020 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by Inside Sources on September 10, 2020. Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution, continuing today under Nicolás Maduro, brought untold misery to the people of Venezuela, but it also harmed non-Venezuelan companies and their shareholders. To this day,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
Part I of this series featured Dan Hannan explaining how the emergence of capitalism led to mass prosperity, while Part II featured Madeline Grant explaining how competition and cooperation make markets so successful. Today, in Part III, Andy Puzder compares...