“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of […]
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Bikes were “as indispensable to a Chinese as a car to twentieth century Americans.” Those are the words of Fox Butterfield from Alive In the Bitter Sea, his 1982 book about communist-era China. Call Butterfield’s account of just some of communism’s myriad horrors essential reading when it comes to attaining a tangible grasp of how
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The legendary Boeing 747 was a brilliant consequence of six million different parts produced by man and machine around the world. Absent this wildly sophisticated division of labor, 747s wouldn’t exist. Construction of them would be way too expensive. Which is the point. When people the world over are free to blend their remarkably
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If TikTok were in fact a front for the CCP, it wouldn’t possess the American investment to be a front.
Don’t Be Ridiculous, TikTok Is Already American Owned Read More »
“But in May 2015, Beijing went public with a 10-year plan to dominate high-value, high-technology sectors – with the unspoken goal of destroying America’s economic supremacy.” Those are the words of protectionist Florida Senator Marco Rubio from an opinion piece published in the Washington Post. On their own they require a pause. As history
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According to Ip and GDP, savings are a global problem. For the countries in receipt of the savings. The inflow of capital quite literally brings down GDP. Yes, the more one looks at GDP the dumber it gets.
The More You Look at GDP, the Dumber It Gets Read More »
Quick: what will people do for a living in the future? How will market goods be transported to increasingly acquisitive and impatient customers? How will law enforcement protect people if a booming economy makes working in the sector a fool’s errand?
Sens. Rick Scott and Jon Tester Suffocate Discovery of the Future Read More »
“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” There’s no documented evidence that the great 19th century free thinker Frederic Bastiat penned or spoke the previous line, but it doesn’t really matter whether he did or didn’t. It really doesn’t even matter if Bastiat would have agreed with it or not, even though he likely
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The masses may be revolting, but collectively they’re smart. That they’ve chosen unserious candidates signals a future quite unlike the one predicted by the pundits. Who are you going to believe?
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Janet Yellen asserted that “if we do not respond strategically and in a united way” to “China’s industrial policy,” the “viability of businesses in both our countries and around the world could be at risk.” She couldn’t have it more backwards.
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