Whenever you allow yourself to become irritable over small things, whenever you are petty or ungrateful you are implicitly behaving as if you’ll live forever. When you allow yourself to…
Eric Lumpkins
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During the 2016 Presidential campaign, Donald Trump called the stock market a “big, fat, ugly bubble” and vehemently criticized the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Janet Yellen for being political…
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For the vast majority of its history, the United States has been involved in some form of war and military conflict. For 224 years out of its 241-year existence, 93%…
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Suffering is an inherent part of life and, as the Buddhists say, to live is to suffer. We will all get sick and experience our bodies deteriorating. We will all…
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This year’s college graduating class in the US will graduate with a new record amount of debt. That statement is accurate for every year all the way back to the…
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Opponents of free enterprise, of unhampered laissez-faire capitalism, argue that without government intervention and involvement in the economy, businesses will be free to run amok, to exploit consumers, and to…
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Since the early 2000s, the notion that sitting is killing you, even if you are physically active, and that there is virtually nothing you can do about it has been…
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The United States government seems to have a track record of becoming increasingly and exponentially irresponsible, destructive, and corrupt with each new President. And intuitively, this makes sense. As each…
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Anti-capitalists and economic illiterates of all varieties claim that monopoly power is a natural result of free market competition. A monopoly is a company that is the sole provider of…
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Democrats and progressives call themselves “pro-choice”, but when it comes to education they ardently support a coercive monopoly for all. These opponents of school choice see school choice as “corporate…