235 Articles tagged with: Economics / Business / Finance

• COVID-19 Is Not Even Close To America's Biggest Problem

  The COVID-19 pandemic can be used to illustrate two problems that are both more destructive than the virus. The problems relate to how Americans view the role of government in their lives and to the belief that government money can always fix prob… Read Article

• Musk, the Moon, and Musts for Achievement

  If you’re like me, you cheered the announcement by SpaceX head Elon Musk that his company plans to send two people on a slingshot swing around the Moon in 2018. But if you want a future filled with such exciting achievements, take a minute to as… Read Article

• Video to Rectify Minimal Understanding of Minimum Wage

  Quick quiz: If you jack up the price of something, do you think people will buy more or less of it? Apparently, the obvious answer “Less!” eludes the folks who argue that if the government forces employers to pay all workers a $15 minimum wage… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Heather Wagenhals

  1) Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I’m Heather Wagenhals, native Phoenician (from Phoenix, Arizona, that is!), author, speaker, professional coach, and radio talk-show host. I … Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Robert Bradley

  1) Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I am a classical-liberal intellectual, or at least a student of classical liberalism.

  I specialize in energy history and public policy.… Read Article

• How to Celebrate “Be a Millionaire Day”

  I don’t know who determined that May 20 should be “Be a Millionaire Day,” though it is a good idea. I do know that most people’s ideologies wreck their chances to earn big bucks.

   

  Be a millionaire: the how-to part

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• Minimum Wage Reveals Warped Leftist Values

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• Sharing Economy Failure and Prosperity

  Many “sharing economy” firms are in trouble! Venture capitalists have lost millions! It’s the beauty of capitalism, improving our lives. Yes, that’s right. I’m not being snarky. But over at Salon, Steven Hill is.

  In The New York Times,… Read Article

• Minimum Wage is not Economic Justice

  California has approved a new law hiking the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022. Governor Jerry Brown calls the plan “economic justice.” In fact, it is gross injustice.

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• Krugman Endorses Theft Via Funny Money

  In his latest column entitled “Crazy About Money,” Paul Krugman goes after Sen. Ted Cruz and House Speaker Paul Ryan for their endorsement of a return to the gold standard. But who is crazy?

  The idea of a return to the gold standard di… Read Article

• Krugman gets Rand Right

  Let’s hear it for Paul Krugman! He got Ayn Rand’s views right for once.

  This is a big step forward, since he hasn’t always done well by Rand. Still, he managed to get Republicans wrong, so our cheers should be muted.

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• FreedomFest Debate: The Renewed American Dream of Pursuing Human Achievement

  The debate was held at the 2015 FreedomFest, and featured Ed Hudgins (The Atlas Society) and Lee Edwards of the Heritage Foundation.

  The debate was sponsored by The Atlas Society. 

   

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• Crushing Atlas: The Takedown of UnitedHealth's Bill McGuire

  Dominating the Wall Street Journal’s backdated options reporting was its takedown of UnitedHealth Group’s Bill McGuire. Of the 18 stories the Journal submitted to the Pulitzer committee, four were devoted to McGuire’s destruction. The Journa… Read Article

• Wealth Disparity in America

  Wealth disparity in America is a growing concern and promises to be a highlight of the near-future political debates. But is it really something we should be concerned about? At present, our leaders seem to find it necessary to measure the gap bet… Read Article

• The Atlas Shrugged Crony Awards (video)

   At our 2015 Atlas Summit we announced the winner of the Atlas Shrugged Crony Awards contest. This video is of that dinner event.

   

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• The Three Best Arguments against Liberal Capitalism

  The case for a free society is strong but many remain unconvinced. Why? In this lecture Stephen Hicks presents three of the strongest arguments against liberal capitalism and then responds to them.

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• The Source of Economic Growth

  No school of economic thought is consistent with Objectivism, which is why Ayn Rand, in the very first sentences of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, said “This book is not a treatise on economics. It is a collection of essays on the moral aspects… Read Article

• China is Getting Rich and It's Wonderful

  If you read about China in the American press, you may read of bad air, or over-building, or ill-treatment of activists, or the Spratly Islands.

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• The Innocence of Samuel Insull

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- After FDR’s election, famed entrepreneur and investor Samuel Insull , now bankrupt and retired, was chased across Europe, kidnapped in the Bosporus, and dragged back to Chicago for the business trial of the century—only … Read Article

• Three Enemies of Capitalism (Part 1)

  Atlas Summit 2014 -- Part of John Galt’s success in stopping “the motor of the world” by persuading producers to go on strike is due to knowing his intellectual enemies.

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