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Royal Caribbean’s Utopia of the Seas Is a Monument to Fed Irrelevance

Coco Cay, Bahamas – Utopia of the Seas is the newest, but surely not the last super-cruise ship rolled out by cruise liner Royal Caribbean. Love or hate cruises or cruising, the scope of the ship is awe inspiring.

To get on it is to feel like you’re not on a ship, so enormous is it. To walk on is to experience the feeling of walking into a shopping mall as you’re presented with all manner of interior options including jewelry stores, pizza places, bars, sports bars, clothing shops, laser tag theatres, dry slides, and so much more. And that’s but a small description of the ship’s interior.

Outside are more bars, restaurants, pools, parks, waterparks, miniature golf, boogie-board parks, basketball courts, zip lines, and on and on. The Utopia of the Seas is seemingly the result of an architect teaming up with adults and children of unlimited imagination as they convey to the architect all that they want to do during 3 or 4 days at sea.

Which is the point. Or at least the point of this opinion piece.

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  • John Tamny

    John Tamny is Founder and President of the Parkview Institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, senior fellow at the Market Institute, and Senior Economic Adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group. Tamny is the author of eight books. His latest is The Deficit Delusion: Why Everything Left, Right and Supply-Side Tell You About the National Debt Is Wrong. His others are Bringing Adam Smith Into the American Home: A Case Against Home Ownership, The Money Confusion, When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason, Popular Economics, Who Needs the Fed?, The End of Work, and They're Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers.

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