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Rainer ZitelmannWashington Examiner |
Yesterday marked the sixth test launch of SpaceX’s “Starship” shuttle, following a fifth successful test in October. If you want to know how...
A USA with no billionaires – that’s exactly what Bernie Sanders was the first to call for. He championed the idea in his book It's OK To Be Angry...
This morning, Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched a rocket dubbed “Starship” from a site near Brownsville, Texas. SpaceX planned to bring...
The emergence of private space companies such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX has brought a new dynamic to the space industry. Thanks to Musk, launch costs,...
A new book from the economist Philipp Bagus, professor of economics at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, has just been published in Germany. The...
Greg Autry and Peter Navarro, Red Moon Rising: How America Will Beat China on the Final Frontier (Nashville, Post Hill Press). 260 pp., $19.99. The...
In a March 2023 interview, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised his country economic growth reminiscent of the post-war economic miracle. “Because...
In the world's largest survey on the image of capitalism, respondents in 34 countries were presented with 18 different statements on capitalism. It...
Colonialism has become a hot topic in recent years. The hatred directed at Israel at universities in the United States and Europe is ideologically...
According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, in the early 2000s, after selling the company PayPal, Musk was sitting with some of the...
Anti-capitalism is back in fashion. Even Marxism, which many had declared dead after the collapse of socialism, is experiencing a renaissance. Books...
In the course of the 20th century, Venezuela went from being one of the poorest countries in Latin America to becoming the richest. In 1970, it ranked...
According to the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, Sweden is among the most market-oriented economies worldwide. Overall, it ranks in 10th place, far...
In the 1970s, the U.S. was plagued by an ever-growing array of problems, most of which were the result of excessive government intervention in the...
Capitalism Rainer Zitelmann | From the May 2024 issue Eight-year-old Phung Xuan Vu and his 10-year-old brother were...
In 1966, the Beatles released a song called ‘Taxman’, which starts with the lines: Let me tell you how it will be That’s one for you, 19 for...
The contrast between North and South Korea could hardly be starker. According to the 2023 Index of Economic Freedom, the latter ranks as the 15th...
Today, as socialist ideas once again gain popularity around the world, people should remember an unintentional, large-scale experiment that confirmed...
As recently as 1990, Vietnam was the poorest country in the world, poorer even than the poorest countries in Africa. During the war, 14 to 15 million...
According to the latest Index of Economic Freedom, which has just been published, the level of economic freedom in the United States is at its lowest...
How are businesses and entrepreneurship presented in school textbooks? A new study reveals a depressing truth. Carried out in Germany, the study...
For millennia, China suffered famine after famine. As recently as 1981, as many as 88 percent of the Chinese population was living in extreme...
In my new book I show "How Nations Escape Poverty," but I also have some comments on how once very rich countries became poor. These examples should...
What may sound like a fairy tale today could be a reality tomorrow. Capitalist space travel can solve many of the problems on Earth, such as limited...
Donald Trump received fewer campaign donations in the final quarter of 2023 than Joe Biden. Trump's campaign reported donations of 19 million dollars...
In the past, advertising was a tool to increase sales. Then advertisers began to see themselves as artists. Today, they see themselves as missionaries...
Argentine President Javier Milei delivered a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 17, 2024. I have compiled and commented...
The mainstream media are all reporting on the latest Oxfam report. The five richest men in the world have more than doubled their wealth since 2020,...
I know many highly successful people who write down their goals for the year ahead on New Year’s Eve. Are you one of them? I have achieved great...
In his article “Unraveling the Mindset of Victimhood,” the American psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman recommended taking the following short test...