George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture

This blog is a commentary on contemporary business, politics, economics, society, and culture, based on the values of Reason, Rational Self-Interest, and Laissez-Faire Capitalism. Its intellectual foundations are Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism and the theory of the Austrian and British Classical schools of economics as expressed in the writings of Mises, Böhm-Bawerk, Menger, Ricardo, Smith, James and John Stuart Mill, Bastiat, and Hazlitt, and in my own writings.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

How Far Left the Democrats Actually Are

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It’s clear that today’s Democratic Party is very far left. But it may come as a surprise to learn that it’s further to the left than the Ch...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Coronavirus March 30, 2020

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According to worldometer ( https://bit.ly/3bDD6rk ), the latest US death toll from the Coronavirus is 2,938, an increase of 538 from the 2...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Actual and Projected Death Rates of the Coronavirus

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As of 3/29/20, the death toll in the US is 2,400; globally, it’s 34,000. As a proportion of population (300 million in US and 7 billion g...
Monday, March 23, 2020

A Soviet-Style Economy in America?

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America may be headed toward a Soviet-style economy, with permanent pervasive shortages and waiting lines. This is because Congress and t...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

China’s Alleged Overcoming of the Coronavirus

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According to the NYT ( https://nyti.ms/3bgDFHH ), there are no new Coronavirus cases in China except for those brought in from the outside. ...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Anti-“Price-Gouging” and the Preference for Suffering Over Profit

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The New York Times reports that many hospitals are now rationing hand sanitizer and “crucial respirator masks” while at the same time larg...
Wednesday, March 04, 2020

Capital Must Not Be Meat for Socialism’s Ravenous Wild Dogs

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Under capitalism, one man may own a string of automobile factories, and one man may own a string of oil fields, pipelines, and refineries....
Sunday, March 01, 2020

The Environmentalist Left’s Remarkable New Principle

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If we destroy the energy base needed to produce and operate the construction equipment required to build strong, well-made, comfortable hous...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Bernie's and the Left's Homicidal and Suicidal Philosophy

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Bernie’s and the Left’s philosophy of socialism and environmentalism, with its hostility to fossil fuels and industrial civilization, is ho...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Bernie’s Financial Plan

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If you thought Joe Biden must have some kind of mental problem to say that 150 million people had been killed by guns in the hands of ran...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Why Washington’s Birthday Must Be Restored as a National Holiday

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Today is Washington’s Birthday. If we value the principles on which the United States was founded, then Washington’s Birthday deserves to...
Sunday, February 16, 2020

Bring Back Washington's Birthday

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Tomorrow is “President’s Day.” It implies that Washington and Lincoln are half as important in American history as Martin Luther King, si...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

Socialism: A Philosophy of Ignoramuses or of Moral Monsters?

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This post is an answer to a tweet that can be found at  https://twitter.com/jordylancaster/status/1227725404603068417?s=12 I certainly...
Thursday, February 13, 2020

Sanders Is Openly Calling for a Revolution

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Sanders is openly calling for a revolution! (See https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1228009835880423426?s=20 ) Sanders wants a...

Greenspan et al. for Carbon Tax

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This post is taken from a tweet thread by the author made on January 23, 2020. According to Bloomberg news, just about everybody who’s an...

Falsely Shouting “Fire” in a Crowded Theater

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This post is from a tweet-thread made by the author on January 18, 2020. Enemies of freedom cite prohibiting falsely shouting “fire” in...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Simple and Effective Way to Radically Reduce “Gun Violence”

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Every law and regulation rests on the threat of physical force, i.e., all laws and regulations rest on the threat of a violator’s being con...

Sanders and Warren

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Reproduced from my tweet-thread of January 16, 2020 Sanders and Warren call each other a liar. See http://bit.ly/30urJ0P Both Sander...

Lincoln’s Birthday

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Today is Lincoln’s Birthday. It is no longer widely celebrated. Rather, it has been joined together with Washington’s Birthday in “President...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Bernie Sanders on Socialized Medicine

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Bernie Sanders claims that socialized medicine will result in medical care being available to Americans at a substantially reduced cost p...
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