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Rainer ZitelmannWashington Examiner |
According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, in the early 2000s, after selling the company PayPal, Musk was sitting with some of the...
Anti-capitalism is back in fashion. Even Marxism, which many had declared dead after the collapse of socialism, is experiencing a renaissance. Books...
In the course of the 20th century, Venezuela went from being one of the poorest countries in Latin America to becoming the richest. In 1970, it ranked...
According to the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, Sweden is among the most market-oriented economies worldwide. Overall, it ranks in 10th place, far...
In the 1970s, the U.S. was plagued by an ever-growing array of problems, most of which were the result of excessive government intervention in the...
Capitalism Rainer Zitelmann | From the May 2024 issue Eight-year-old Phung Xuan Vu and his 10-year-old brother were...
In 1966, the Beatles released a song called ‘Taxman’, which starts with the lines: Let me tell you how it will be That’s one for you, 19 for...
The contrast between North and South Korea could hardly be starker. According to the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, the latter ranks as the 15th...
Today, as socialist ideas once again gain popularity around the world, people should remember an unintentional, large-scale experiment that confirmed...
As recently as 1990, Vietnam was the poorest country in the world, poorer even than the poorest countries in Africa. During the war, 14 to 15 million...
According to the latest Index of Economic Freedom, which has just been published, the level of economic freedom in the United States is at its lowest...
How are businesses and entrepreneurship presented in school textbooks? A new study reveals a depressing truth. Carried out in Germany, the study...
For millennia, China suffered famine after famine. As recently as 1981, as many as 88 percent of the Chinese population was living in extreme...
In my new book I show "How Nations Escape Poverty," but I also have some comments on how once very rich countries became poor. These examples should...
What may sound like a fairy tale today could be a reality tomorrow. Capitalist space travel can solve many of the problems on Earth, such as limited...
Donald Trump received fewer campaign donations in the final quarter of 2023 than Joe Biden. Trump's campaign reported donations of 19 million dollars...
In the past, advertising was a tool to increase sales. Then advertisers began to see themselves as artists. Today, they see themselves as missionaries...
Argentine President Javier Milei delivered a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 17, 2024. I have compiled and commented...
The mainstream media are all reporting on the latest Oxfam report. The five richest men in the world have more than doubled their wealth since 2020,...
I know many highly successful people who write down their goals for the year ahead on New Year’s Eve. Are you one of them? I have achieved great...
In his article “Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood,” the American psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman recommended taking the following short test...
The libertarian Javier Milei was elected Argentina’s new president on November 19, winning 55.7 percent of the vote. But things won’t be easy for...
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s partner and long-time Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has died at the age of 99. He would have turned 100 years...
November 19 is the day of the run-off election between Peronist Sergio Massa and anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei in Argentina. In years to come,...
Unfortunately, there is a sinister tradition of left-wing intellectuals justifying or even celebrating “revolutionary” or “anti-imperialist”...
Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest book fair and welcomes thousands of exhibitors who come from almost 100 countries to present over 400,000...
Is private property still private property if the state tells the supposed owner in exacting detail what can or must be done with it? Proposals for...