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“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
- Albert Einstein 👀
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AI may be surrounded by hype, but there’s also growing evidence of real economic benefits.
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“History is a struggle between two principles, the peaceful principle, which advances the development of trade, and the militarist-imperialist principle, which interprets human society not as a friendly division of labour but as the forcible repression of some of its members by others.”
- Ludwig von Mises
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“While the government might be able to coordinate economic activities in a simple economy, it could never successfully do so in a complex one.”
- Robert Higgs 🧐
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“According to Adam Smith (and later to Hayek) information about which new industries have the greatest promise cannot be accumulated in a political body, let alone in the head of a single government functionary or planner.”
- Edwin G. West
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"Understanding the trap is the first step toward a real conversation. Until the system is reconsidered, affordability will remain a promise, not a reality." - Justin Dean
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“Capitalism requires, and therefore capitalism develops, a society in which economic dealings are lubricated by the disposition and ability to trust strangers.”
- George Will
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Estonia chose open markets, private property, and predictable institutions.
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Thailand has been pursuing an ongoing supply-chain diversification away from China, which has in turn benefited parts of the manufacturing sector.
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“[S]cientific and technological discoveries have considerable effects on the development of society. It follows that societies in which scientific and technological discovery is particularly frequent must be societies in which predictions of their future condition is particularly hazardous.”
- H.B. Acton 🤔
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The most expensive costs are often the ones you never see. Athan Clark argues that Social Security's real price tag isn't what you pay, it's what you give up.
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“Protectionism is the theory that to subtract is to add – that less creates more – that people’s access to goods and services is increased by restricting people’s access to goods and services.”
- Donald Boudreaux
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Economic freedom begins with respect for property rights.
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"Imagine handing your landlord $300,000, living in his house for two years without ever making a rent payment, and then getting the full $300,000 back when you move out.
Did you just live there for free?
Millions of renters in South Korea would tell you no. Under Korea’s jeonse rental system, that is exactly how a lease works: Instead of monthly rent, the tenant hands over a lump-sum deposit—typically 50% to 80% of the property’s value—and receives it back in full at the end of the lease."
- Athan Clark
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The American worker is never asked to consider the counterfactual. fee.org/articles/the-hidden-…
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