Category Archives: MN Gordon

Redistributing Wealth to the Rich

The world’s more unbelievable and fantastical than anything we could imagine.  Look around.  Astounding things are taking place each and every day. For instance, earlier this week China’s richest man, Wang Jianlin, paid $28.2 million for Pablo Picasso’s painting of … Continue reading

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Stunting the Lives of Millions

An extraordinary occurrence took place last Friday.  Congress let a temporary $5 billion food stamp stimulus from the 2009 Recovery Act expire.  We can’t recall ever hearing of a federal program becoming smaller.  Can you? As a result, one in … Continue reading

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Dependent Upon A Bankrupt System

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the mid-19th century, observed that “Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”  Perhaps Emerson meant that common sense is rather uncommon.  What’s more, if common sense was uncommon in Emerson’s … Continue reading

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Property Confiscation Is Coming

Outright property confiscation by governments is something that’s ardently disparaged here at the Economic Prism.  There’s no justification we can rationalize for state sponsored theft.  This includes penalizing those who are young and healthy with a disproportionate burden of a … Continue reading

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