World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Global Elites Celebrating Hypocrisy

by Bob Adelmann | 5:36 am, January 26, 2012

There’s nothing worse to chill the heart of a freedom fighter than to see the impossibly wealthy elites celebrating with their friends and colluding to reduce our freedoms.

The Beauty of Private Property—from China?

by Bob Adelmann | 12:17 pm, January 24, 2012

We’ve come to a pretty pass when China is able to teach us something about how the free market works when it is allowed to. We really ought to try it sometime.

WikiLeaks: More Evidence of Monsanto’s Bullying and Influence-Buying

by Bob Adelmann | 5:50 am, January 16, 2012

Monsanto is a perfect example, but not the only one, of how crony-capitalism works: buy off the legislators and rake in the profits from favorable legislation that they support. Sweet.

Obamacare, Price Controls, and Theft

by Bob Adelmann | 12:20 pm, January 14, 2012

I’ve written about this before: price controls ALWAYS result in shortages. Government solves shortages with rationing. Cui bono? The government. It’s the perfect scam.

First, Borders; Then, Kodak; Now, Barnes & Noble?

by Bob Adelmann | 12:21 pm, January 10, 2012

It looks like Barnes & Noble has a fair chance of coming out of their tailspin before auguring into the ground. Their Nook e-book has a fair chance of serving as its savior. As for its stores? Likely to disappear, just like Borders.

The Free Market is Brutal: Kodak Loses; Consumers Win

by Bob Adelmann | 5:29 am, January 10, 2012

Here is where corporate hubris and short-sightedness force a company like Kodak to go bankrupt. The world moves much more rapidly today than it did in the past. If a player loses its focus, just for a minute it seems, it’s a goner.

Free Market Thinking Inside the Van

by Bob Adelmann | 12:10 pm, January 9, 2012

This was a fun article to write. Nothing to see here except a couple of guys recognizing the potential to do some business by helping others. Pure free enterprise. No hidden message here. The free market works. And a fun play on words too, for the title.

Whirlpool Asks for Mercantilism, Forces Consumers to Pay More

by Bob Adelmann | 5:11 am, January 7, 2012

Once again, here is another example of a big company that has figured out how to “game” the system: support the free market when they win, but run to Mother Government when the competition gets too rough.

Christmas Redux: Americans Live Better for Less Thanks to Market Innovation

by Bob Adelmann | 5:53 pm, December 29, 2011

This article didn’t start out to talk about Sears’ problems, but it was a perfect fit to illustrate the “creative destruction” of the market economy and its impact on companies including big and once-successful stores like Sears.

Ranking the Top Political Stories in Colorado for 2011

by elpresidente | 6:21 am, December 22, 2011

People’s Press Collective has thrown together a quick, informal, and non-intended-to-be-scientific-but-fun-anyway survey for our readers to rank their Top Political Stories in Colorado for the past year. There have been some doozies, which would be an understatement.

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