We don't need $2,000 stimulus checks, we need an open economy
The strangeness of 2020 continues. We are now ingrained in a fight between $600 stimulus checks, or $2,000 stimulus checks. As if it...
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Nate Thurston
- Mar 3, 2020
- 6 min
The Myth of Cuba's Glorious Health Care System
We should be revolted by people who are willing to be dupes for totalitarianism. Reposted from FEE.org, and originally written by Daniel...
Nate Thurston
- Mar 3, 2020
- 3 min
Why Cuba's Infant Mortality Rate Is so Low | FEE
Cuba’s impressive infant mortality rate has a simple explanation: data manipulation. Fidel Castro, the dictator who ruled Cuba with an...
Nate Thurston
- Mar 3, 2020
- 3 min
Why Hong Kong's Economy Has Grown 7x Faster Than Cuba's Since the 1950s | FEE
Neil Monnery’s book "A Tale of Two Economies" explains how the fortunes of Hong Kong and Cuba were shaped by two individuals. This...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 17, 2020
- 4 min
The World's Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster than Anyone Else
In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. We discussed this article on...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 7, 2020
- 6 min
Chicago’s PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be
Chicago is proof that there is almost nothing that government entities won’t try to tax. This article was originally posted by FEE.org,...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
Canada Collected Less Revenue from High-Income Earners after Trudeau Tax Hike
Trudeau’s tax hike was a big mistake. The only tangible results are that the private sector is now smaller and the country is less...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
The Truth about Amazon’s Tax Bill
Politicians prefer not to talk about the billion and a half dollars in taxes Amazon paid last year. It is widely reported, and believed,...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
Will Insolvent Union Pensions Get Bailed Out by the Government?
Despite the accumulation of nearly ten years worth of evidence that the U.S. government cannot make money from its student loan business...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 7, 2020
- 6 min
5 Union Rules That Are Ruining Transportation
Union contracts are making transit expensive and inefficient. Listen to the Good Morning Liberty Podcast - New Episodes every day of the...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 6, 2020
- 4 min
I'm a Libertarian, and I Did Not Support Trump's Impeachment
So, the day is finally here. Man was it a surprise, right? Not exactly.. From the very beginning, our podcast just like many others,...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 5, 2020
- 6 min
Dear Gen Z: Learn from Millennial Mistakes and Say No to Student Loan Debt
As more Gen Zers come of age, they would be wise to learn from the mistakes of millennials and think twice before borrowing money to pay...
Nate Thurston
- Feb 4, 2020
- 4 min
93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?
In "tuition towns," the funds local governments expect to spend per pupil are instead given directly to the parents of school-age...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 27, 2020
- 7 min
Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It
Yet again, government intervention hurts those it is intended to help. One of the more elementary observations about economics is that a...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 27, 2020
- 5 min
How the Government Makes Nuclear Power Less Safe
If the Price-Anderson Act is allowed to expire, the nuclear industry might develop new safety systems. My heart began to race as I walked...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 23, 2020
- 3 min
No, US Billionaires Aren't Paying A Lower Tax Rate Than Working People
There's a lie going around. The massive lie that the 1% pay a lower tax rate than the bottom 50%. If you are willing to look at actual...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 22, 2020
- 6 min
How the Federal Government Created the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Rather than a failure of the free market, the federal government was directly complicit in the mortgage market’s spectacular ramp-up and...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 15, 2020
- 7 min
Imagine if We Paid for Food like We Do Healthcare
Hint: it would be a dystopian disaster. Imagine if you purchased food like most Americans obtained healthcare. No, I really want you to...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 15, 2020
- 7 min
Warren pledges to bypass Congress and wipe out student loan debt - This is not the solution
Fox News reported: Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren vowed Tuesday that if elected, she’d cancel federal student loan...
Nate Thurston
- Jan 14, 2020
- 2 min
Bernie campaign organizer- "F**king Milwaukee will burn" if Bernie doesn't get the nomination
James O'Keefe is at it again. Today, Project Veritas has released one of what is promised to be many damning realizations about the...