Seriously, If You Pick The Wrong Major Then Prepare To Be Unemployed
Audubon's 'The Birds of America' to be sold in NYC
Walter Williams: I love greed:
Free market capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to the rise of capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving one's fellow man. Capitalists seek to discover what people want and then produce it as efficiently as possible. Free market capitalism is ruthless in its profit and loss discipline. This explains much of the hostility toward free market capitalism; some of it is held by businessmen. Smith recognized this hostility when he said, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." He was hinting at government-backed crony capitalism, which has come to characterize much of today's businesses.
Free market capitalism has other enemies -- mostly among the intellectual elite and political tyrants. These are people who believe that they have superior wisdom to the masses and that God has ordained them to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider to be good reasons for restricting liberty, but every tyrant who has ever lived has had what he considered good reason for restricting liberty. A tyrant's agenda calls for the attenuation or the elimination of the market and what is implied by it -- voluntary exchange. Tyrants do not trust that people acting voluntarily will do what the tyrant thinks they should do. They want to replace the market with economic planning and regulation.
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Their politics sanctions - or encourages - dependency and lack of dignity
Advisory group recommends withholding billions for high-speed rail
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Obama defies lawmakers with recess appointments to NLRB
But if Bush did this...
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But if Bush tried that...
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How to Confront the Anti-Israel Fixation of the Left
New forms of Terrorism in Turkey
A Call for Sanity in the Anti-Romney Rhetoric
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