Category Archives: Free Trade
Creative Destruction + Trade = Renaissance
The crusades were a series of raids by Western European kingdoms in and around Jerusalem against the Muslim rulers of the land. The 4th crusade didn’t even make it to the ‘Holy Land’, with the western troops ransacking Byzantium and leaving it in ruins. This destroyed the Byzantine empire, while the wars were devastating to [...]
Free Trade Stops Wars
Last week I mentioned an article that didn’t approve of Free Trade. I didn’t approve of this article, so I thought it only right to show why I approve of free trade (although I’ve already done so here, here, here, here and especially here) Matt Ridley, in his wonderful book The Rational Optimist, highlights how [...]
Complete Drivel
I admit to following alternet.org on Twitter. I do so only because reading their articles often inspires me to write my own articles tearing their incoherent train-of-thought, vaguely anti-establishment rants apart. Occasionally, however, their articles are worth reproducing (at least in part). Their latest, entitled
The Language We Never Would Have Known
Have you ever wondered what English would sound like if it had not been so influenced by other languages such as Latin, Gaelic, Norse, French, etc.? Neither have we. But some people have indeed thought long and hard about it and have created The Anglish Moot, a website dedicated to “English without words borrowed from [...]
Entrepreneurs do count
The downturn has now been underway for some time. We have now been notified that we exited the recession more than six months ago, (although this sounds to many like notifying us armageddon occurred 6 weeks ago); but foreclosures are still high, as is unemployment, and economists are still fighting over the austerity vs. stimulus [...]
