Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology. China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

Milton Friedman on how ‘social justice’ destroys a society: “If I have a philosophy that everything belongs to society—if something happens to me, that’s not my fault, that’s because society did it to me—then the whole concept of property loses its role.” “Why shouldn’t I steal? Why shouldn’t I destroy property? After all, it’s nobody’s. It belongs to everybody, so it belongs to nobody.” “Moreover, if I happened to be in a lower-income group, or a deprived social group, or a discriminated-against racial group, that’s the malevolence of other people. It’s not my fault, and I have every right to get back at them.”

Difendere la libertà e la democrazia oggi significa anche governare lo strapotere delle piattaforme digitali e le ingerenze che arrivano dai social media. Non è un caso se gli USA di Trump si siano scagliati subito contro la proposta di regolamentazione dei social network per gli under 16 presentata da Starmer in Gran Bretagna. Non possiamo più fare finta di niente. In Parlamento c’è una proposta di @Azione_it per fare la stessa cosa anche in Italia: si tratta di un dovere morale nei confronti delle nuove generazioni. Il Parlamento sarà in grado di fare qualcosa?

When government takes part ownership of a company taxpayers foot the bill, but they don’t get a say. It’s not capitalism. And it’s certainly not conservative.

Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.” “We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”

Kasparov: Merkel was the best agent of Russian interests, not as a spy, but politically. She made Germany and Europe dependent on Russian gas, built Nord Stream 2 after Crimea, and paralyzed efforts to build a strong coalition against Putin.

Ayn Rand: "The moral code which is implicit in capitalism has never been formulated explicitly. The basic premise of that code is that man, is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others. That man must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor others sacrificing themselves to himself. This is the moral premise in which the United States of America was based. The principle of man's right to his own life, to his own liberty, to the pursuit of his own happiness."

Milton Friedman on inflation: “Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first. The bad effects only come later.” “That’s why in both cases there is a strong temptation to overdo it: to drink too much and to print too much money.” “When it comes to the cure, it’s the other way around. When you stop drinking or when you stop printing money, the bad effects come first and the good effects only come later.” “That’s why it’s so hard to persist with the cure.”