After the fall of the Soviet Union, a whole host of European countries were faced with a unique opportunity: the chance to free their economies and clean up a corrupt legal system. Of all the ex-Soviet states, few have been as successful as Estonia.
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Generations of development economists, non-profit leaders, and charitable organizations have struggled to understand why Africa lags so stubbornly behind the Western world in terms of living standards.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Big Beer Chooses Woke Politics over Its Loyal Customers | Guest: Jennifer Sey | Ep 228
With the recent rash of beer commercials insulting the companies’ own customers in order to score cheap political points, it’s reasonable to ask what’s going on.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
Markets, Not Mandates, Will Save the Environment | Guest: Chris Barnard | Ep 224
For decades, we’ve been told that only top-down mandates from the government can organize people to protect the environment, but in many cases, the federal government actually does more harm than good.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Economy | Guest: Per Bylund | Ep 201
Matt Kibbe talks with economist Per Bylund, who explains what the economy actually is and how it works in terms that are easy for anyone to understand.
After more than two years of suffering through the COVID-19 pandemic, brutal lockdowns, riots, and shortages, the American economy is now collapsing.
Podcast, Kibbe on Liberty
The Road to Racial Justice Is Liberty | Guests: Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher | Ep 181
Matt Kibbe is joined by Rachel Ferguson and Marcus Witcher to discuss the ways in which free markets and free people have done more for racial justice and equality than any top-down government program.
Democracy is a system which properly ordered can help navigate the ever-growing complexity of the world we all live in, but its limits need to be recognized.
As more people invest in the space economy, space travel will soon become obtainable to the average person.
Private property is the foundation for the rule of law in market economies. It follows, then, that private law is the lifeblood of market economies.