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1haylan
I am interested in reading about ongoing world wide economic affairs. I follow events in Latin America and Africa. I also tap into the Libertarain movements and actual political gains taking place in other countries.
My focus is the individual's property rights and the protection of their private property, which is the means through which poverty is overcome. Another aspect to overcoming property is units of exchange, when people cannot leverage their property through loans, for example, it is difficult to be much of anything but a marketplace entrepreneur.
Additionally, the world market is hardly free: French tariffs on farm products, for example, make sure that those in Africe who can produce the identical commodity for far less, are not able to sell their products on the world market and cannot raise themselves above the poverty line.
It is remarkable to me that very few people want to learn about how things work on the ground, around the kitchen table, and in people's lives. Being high-minded in the abstract does not create prosperity in the absolute sense.
One of the reasons I like to explore what is going on in the world economically--both in terms of creating real wealth and in terms of the level of government intervention--is to get a better understanding of how the future is trending.
Are any of you "futurists?"
My focus is the individual's property rights and the protection of their private property, which is the means through which poverty is overcome. Another aspect to overcoming property is units of exchange, when people cannot leverage their property through loans, for example, it is difficult to be much of anything but a marketplace entrepreneur.
Additionally, the world market is hardly free: French tariffs on farm products, for example, make sure that those in Africe who can produce the identical commodity for far less, are not able to sell their products on the world market and cannot raise themselves above the poverty line.
It is remarkable to me that very few people want to learn about how things work on the ground, around the kitchen table, and in people's lives. Being high-minded in the abstract does not create prosperity in the absolute sense.
One of the reasons I like to explore what is going on in the world economically--both in terms of creating real wealth and in terms of the level of government intervention--is to get a better understanding of how the future is trending.
Are any of you "futurists?"
2stevenschmitt
One of the best ways in my opinion to gauge the level freedom in this and other countries around the world is to track the level of legislation passed to control the internet. The internet is probably the closest thing to a true classical liberalism we have ever seen and as such its power is a shaping societal force and conversely a threat to the the usual evil power-mad tyrants or selfless socialist types (if there is any kind of difference between the two).
