Original Post: The Big Short.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Capitalists are like children and free marketers are like their parents. If the free marketers neglect their duties to feed, protect, teach, and discipline capitalists, some well-meaning but inept government agency will impose itself into the parenting role, destroying…
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Original Post: The Big Short.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Capitalists are like children and free marketers are like their parents. If the free marketers neglect their duties to feed, protect, teach, and discipline capitalists, some well-meaning but inept government agency will impose itself into the parenting role, destroying…
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Original Post: The Real Story of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving celebrates the Pilgrims’ break from socialism. Schools and textbooks avoid the topic, but it’s worth remembering. The Plymouth and Jamestown plantations were dying under “common store” approach. Only by establishing a free market did the settlers thrive. Here’s the beginning of Kent Dillon’s excellent story of Thanksgiving, which you can continue reading in its…
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