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Deforation is the Tyranny of Government

Deforestation requires governments to respect private property rights, and allow individuals to rightfully acquire and cultivate farmland.

Bill Clinton is a Moron

Bill Clinton might think that some races are less capable than others, but in reality all men are born equal. The ability to excel is limited only by the limitations imposed on that individual by government and himself.

How Not to Make Globalization Work

In Making Globalization Work, Joseph Stiglitz fails to make a good case against liberalization. Instead, he further underscores liberalization’s importance in global development, and instead misidentifies mercantilism as ” capitalism”.

Classical Liberalism versus Anarchocapitalism

Professor Jesús Huerta de Soto on the differences between anarcho-capitalism and classical liberalism, and why intellectual evolution eventually leads to anarcho-capitalism.

Liberalized Capital Markets and Poverty

There seems to be a great deal of misconceptions in regards to what market liberalization is, to how Capitalism can foster economic growth in any given country and the case of globalism in the Third World. As a result, many have unconvincingly and incorrectly attributed greater impoverishment to the liberalization of capital markets.

Forestation through the Free-Market

Roughly half of the world’s original forested surface area no longer exists. We depend on these forests for our survival. The key to long-term ecological sustainability is the free-market and private property rights.

Why Capitalism Has Failed in the Third World

Hernando de Soto presents the solution to solving poverty in the Third World. The answer lies in private property rights, which he shows are virtually non-existent in countries suffering from severe economic woes.

Antitrust is a Violation of Property Rights

Although antitrust may be seen as a valuable tool to stop the formation of monopolies, the fact of the matter is that antitrust seeks a violation of property rights and rarely has to do with monopolies, or with companies conducting “unfair” business practices. Nearly everytime, antitrust is used as a tool to destroy the most successful companies of the United States to the benefit of their competition.

Lending Regulation is Counterproductive

The mainstream has pointed its finger on the apparent lack of regulation, and therefore calls for an increase in regulation on lending for the purpose of selling houses. These regulations will make the accumulation of wealth that much more difficult. We are being condemned to a road to serfdom

Zionism’s Losing Battle

Zionism is doomed to failure, and the only Middle East peace solution is a dissolution of government and the return of economic and social freedoms to both the Jews and the Arabs.

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