Kevin Carson responds to Wilkinson and Boudreaux.
If you support free markets, orient yourself more locally starting this week by avoiding Black Friday and supporting Small Business Saturday. Distant producers are majorly disadvantaged by unprivileged markets!
David D’Amato discusses federal preparations to violate privacy in the name of protecting it.
Kevin Carson explains that the notion of Obama being ‘hard-left’ is laughable.
Kevin Carson explains that the Tea Party is about to learn the same cruel lessons in political futility that progressives have had their noses rubbed in by Obama.
Kevin Carson on not enough truth in advertising.
Kevin Carson riffs on Jimmy McMillan’s assessment of housing costs.
We need to stop abusive and reckless corporate behavior by removing the policies which cartelize wealth in an anti-market fashion, not keep what we have and redistribute the wealth through the state.
Kevin Carson notices Moore getting so, very, very close to understanding the relationship between statism and monopoly capitalism — but, frustratingly, not quite.
Kevin Carson responds to Bryan Caplan’s “The Myth of the Rational Voter”.
Kevin Carson on progressives as Sisyphus.
In a recent article for Reason magazine (“Freer is Better,” October 14th), John Stossel discusses the downgrading of the United States on the Economic Freedom Index from sixth to eighth place — “behind Canada!” The index is based on several matrices, including freedom of movement of capital, the amount of business regulation, and levels of…
Thomas L. Knapp: “The state wants to know everything about you, but politicians want absolute control over what you can know about them.”
Kevin Carson: “[T]wentieth century liberalism is essentially Schumpeterian. It identifies with the large, hierarchical, managerialist organization the same way the French politiques identified with the absolute monarchs four hundred years ago.”
Paul Krugman and Dinesh D’Souza both wander past the point that is always dying to be made: producers should own what they labor to create, and the status quo is not the product of a free market.
Kevin Carson: “…because of copyright enforcement problems presented by digital technology, the “cognitive capitalism” model requires increasing levels of authoritarianism… to stay tenable.”
Anna Morgenstern on words and their meanings.
Kevin Carson on the myth of statist capitalism as alleged provider of jobs.
Ross Kenyon takes a look at how libertarians instantly and unfairly discount labor movements as statist, when they are truly just reacting against the original statism of capitalists. Libertarians should look at this in a more even-keeled light!
Kevin Carson: “When you play by the rules, the house wins — because the rules are mainly designed to benefit the people who make the rules.”
