Death of a Social Free-Market.

Featured image by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Follow the link for more. When I think of a market, I think of typically financial transactions, places where goods and services are exchanged with a relative degree of choice and freedom. The markets aren’t entirely free by design, and are regulated by the government to ensure that […]

A Cali Libertarian’s Frustration

I try to follow Hanlon’s razor for these things, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” And I think that there is a lot of stupidity in our discourse today.

Why government isn’t the answer

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard, “Well someone should make a law about that,” or “well there should be a program to deal with that.” And yet, when we look at local, state, and even the federal budgets, we are drowned in a sea of red ink, mismanagement, graft, nepotism, and […]

The Conflagration of Capitalism and Profit

When I hear the arguments from those on the progressive/liberal/leftist side in relation to capitalism, I hear an interesting notion. Profit and Capitalism are inextricably linked, and yet profit and socialism/communism/progressivism are rarely connected. The general idea is that Capitalists are profit-focused and care little of the impact of their actions in search of profit. […]