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In March of 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new regulation for SEC registrants to disclose all climate-related information and effects of business operations. The registrants, being all…
“Capitalism cannot provide meaning, spirituality, or sense of belonging. Those things are upstream of capitalism,” Jonah Goldberg writes in his new, optimistic book, Suicide of the West. Mitch has commented…
Leonard Read’s famous 1958 essay “I, Pencil” shows how the free market coordinates the efforts of thousands of people around the world to produce a simple, everyday item (Read chose…
View in your browser. Over the last several years, a number of well-done videos have been released that illustrate some of the great ideas in free market economics. They are…
Amazingly Mayor Bill Saffo has invoked Milton Friedman and the famous article by Leonard Read, I Pencil, in support of state government incentives for the movie industry. This from the…
Much ink and many pixels have been devoted this year to election campaigns for the presidency and Congress, not to mention state-level elected positions. Cato Institute President Edward Crane explains…
Rob Christensen wrote last Sunday that health care can’t be simple. If somebody were to try to put today’s health-care system into a single bill, it would probably run to…
The ongoing redesign of the John Locke Foundation’s Web presence took another step forward this week, with the unveiling of a new Carolina Journal Radio page, designed primarily by Vice…
Thanks to Bob Luddy, I?ve had the chance recently to read an excellent book by Leonard Read titled Vision. (Watch Luddy?s recent presentation to E.A. Morris Leadership Program fellows, and…
Though George Will omits the source of the story, his latest Newsweek column cites the famous Leonard Read story “I, Pencil” to explain that no one person ? or even…