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How The Market Can Save Endangered Species

By Liberate RVA Updates On Wednesday, July 8th, 2015 · Add Comment

Many people assume that the best way to protect an endangered species is to pass laws that prohibit people from hunting them. This is not always the case. In fact, many species go extinct before they’re even put on the threatened or endangered species list. Even when animals do go on the list, it is of course, not always guaranteed that they will survive. For instance, the Eastern Cougar was declared extinct on June 17, 2015 despite being recognized as endangered in 1973.

There are several species of animals which were once endangered, but came to flourish under private ownership. For example, the American bison (not to be confused with the buffalo) once roamed the Great Plains in numbers estimated at about 30 million. This was after many American Indians who helped keep their numbers in check died from foreign diseases and before the bison were [...]

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Student Loan Debt: The Modern Rite of Passage

By Liberate RVA Updates On Sunday, February 1st, 2015 · Add Comment

At one time tertiary education used to mean something when those who entered were there because they could actually handle the course work and had the drive to excel in their field. Degrees were rare and therefore an accurate reflection of an individual’s intellect and competency. Employers would regard college/university degrees in much higher regard due to this scarcity. This is simple supply/demand economics.

Once the federal “government” began sticking its criminal hands into the student loan business by ensuring those loans with stolen loot to anyone with a pulse, as with anything that is corrupted by “government” involvement, the quality plummeted and the price skyrocketed, as is reminiscent of any “government” subsidized industry. As universities began noticing the sharp rise in federal loans [...]

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Minimum Wage and Workers

By Liberate RVA Updates On Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 · Add Comment

“In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period. The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage contracts are now outlawed and hence that there will be a large amount of unemployment. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.”

-Murray Rothbard in Making Economic Sense.

The idea that the minimum wage is harmful to many workers was hardly controversial up until about the 1990s. The reality is, though, that the minimum wage is not only disastrous for the employment of low skilled or inexperienced workers, but also a terribly inefficient means of solving the problems it is intended to [...]

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How The Market Can Save Endangered Species

Student Loan Debt: The Modern Rite of Passage

Minimum Wage and Workers

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