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Below you'll find a list of all posts from February, 2019

Supermarkets—our enemies?

“Every time we step through its doors we enter into a battle with our enemy, the supermarket corporation, whose motives …

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Three Jeers for Government Regulation

Summary No matter how often free market advocates succeed in logically and factually disproving the arguments for government intervention, new …

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The Good Society by the Acton Institute

What makes a good society? A vibrant moral culture? A strong economy? A just political order? Could it be all …

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Embracing the nanny state vs. valuing freedom

Everyone knows that freedom is an essential requirement of human survival and happiness. Correct? Apparently not. Recently I was listening …

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Citizens for a Better Bahamas PRESENT JUVAL AVIV

…in two informative and entertaining talks on fraud prevention systems, cyber security, hacking and recovery of stolen funds. Juval Aviv, …

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4th Annual Joan Thompson Memorial Freedom Lecture featuring Dr. Richard Ebeling

Topic: Why the Global Economy Needs More Freedom and Less Government When: Friday, March 1, 2019 Where: Choices Restaurant, University …

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Profit maximization as moral purpose: Channeling Milton Friedman

To many, profit maximization seems cold, heartless, even exploitative. They consider business immoral and the profit-seeking corporate model to be …

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Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place fund with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.Alan Greenspan
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