Last week we brought you an explosive episode about Liberty University.
So, when did Charlie’s organization make a turn towards “faith” as opposed to its initial focus on free markets and capitalism? It began with the Falkirk Center…Here’s more from Candace Owens.
John Stossel says lots of people hate capitalism and would instead prefer socialism. Their reason: capitalism hurts the poor.
Not true, says Swedish historian and author Johan Norberg, who explains how capitalism actually saves lives and why socialism always fails. Norberg also dispels the myth that Sweden is a socialist success.
Though Sweden is more free market than America, Norberg says capitalism offers many more benefits and even makes people less lonely, more generous and less racist. More with Stossel and Norberg.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who returns for his third stint as Israel’s Prime Minister, tells The Rubin Report how the country has been able to harness free markets and capitalism to achieve a higher GDP per capita than France and Japan.
Netanyahu, who says socialism was a major thorn in the Israeli economy the past few years, also elaborates on the difficulty of forming a coalition government and what issues matter most to conservative Israelis.
John Stossel reports the FBI has shut down Silk Road, the illegal online drug market and has jailed its founder, Ross Ulbricht. A judge sentenced Ulbricht to double-life, plus 40 years with no chance of parole, calling the ruling a “warning to others.”
Ross’ mom, Lyn Ulbricht tells Stossel her son was just an overly-zealous libertarian, who believed in free markets and volunteerism. “This was for all non-violent charges,” she says. “He’s not a dangerous person.” Here’s Stossel with the rest of the story.
Thanks to property rights and free markets, humanity has achieved prosperity and freedom that our ancestors hardly dreamed about. Americans are now 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago.
That perspective is lost on populist complainers, such as Bernie Sanders, who falsely claim “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.” If he and his followers understood their history, they might be less eager to tear down the free-market system that made lives better. In the following segment, John Stossel is joined by the Cato Institute’s David Boaz to discuss the consequences of liberty.
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