Wealth & Poverty Review | Page 3

Woman watching TV at home and holding the remote control

^{Gale Pooley
April 11, 2023
Wealth Creation}

After 96 Years, TV Abundance Continues to Flourish

_{Gale Pooley
April 11, 2023
Wealth Creation}

Without the innovation of TV, there would be no internet or mobile phones. It is a foundation technology for the age of knowledge discovery. Read More ›

^{Nathan Lewis
April 7, 2023
Poverty}

What’s Being Done to Reduce Wealth Inequality in the US?

_{Nathan Lewis
April 7, 2023
Poverty}

Wealth inequality has grown in recent years. There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in the U. S. and the wealthiest Americans have never been richer. In contrast, poor and working-class Americans have seen their incomes stagnate and fall. Discovery Fellow Nathan Lewis joined NPR to discuss what can be done to reduce wealth inequality in the United States. Read More ›

Safe-haven currency for investment, financial concept : US 100 USD dollar banknotes on a table, depict most popular asset for central bank reserve / global money for using or paying debt in the world

^{Nathan Lewis
March 29, 2023
Taxes}

“Taxing All Income The Same” Done Right

_{Nathan Lewis
March 29, 2023
Taxes}

“Taxing all income the same” is the right idea. Without it, we are lost at sea where every possible stupidity can be justified by “fairness.” This is the principle of Uniformity, and it should be the basis for our tax system of the future. Read More ›

Tax season with wooden alphabet blocks, calculator, pen on 1040 tax form backgrounda

^{Nathan Lewis
March 29, 2023
Taxes}

Why Joe Biden’s Tax Plan Isn’t Going To Work

_{Nathan Lewis
March 29, 2023
Taxes}

Socialists always have all kinds of fantasies, but they live in the same real world as the rest of us, and in the real world there are certain cause and effect relationships that are, by now, well known. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
March 20, 2023
Inflation}

The Greatest Risk to Americans Is the Federal Government, Not Bank Failures

_{Scott S. Powell
March 20, 2023
Inflation}

It's far better for America’s citizenry and businesses to have the strength and resourcefulness that comes from free exchange of ideas and information, creativity, honesty, and self-reliance than to have a dependence on a profligate and corrupt government. Read More ›

^{Gale Pooley
February 3, 2023
Wealth Creation}

Gale Pooley on “A Book with Legs” Podcast

_{Gale Pooley
February 3, 2023
Wealth Creation}

If you’re really in favor of more abundant resources, then you really have to be in favor of people having the freedom to innovate, discover, share, and consume knowledge. Read More ›

Green corn field with corn cobs close up.

^{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
December 3, 2022
Growth}

Healing Peter’s Pessimism

_{Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy
December 3, 2022
Growth}

While it is easy to be pessimistic if you compare today to utopia, a much better perspective is to look at yesterday and see how far we’ve come in our journey to lift everyone from poverty. We’re experiencing growth in material abundance, time abundance, and choice abundance. Welcome to Superabundance! Read More ›

^{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
Growth}

Review of Superabundance on RealClearMarkets

_{Eric Grover
December 2, 2022
Growth}

Ronald Reagan said “There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.” In Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet the Cato Institute’s Marian Tupy and Brigham Young professor Gale Pooley make a cogent, empirically-grounded case for Reagan’s full-throated optimism. Read More ›

A homeless encampment on the side of a road

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 26, 2022
Homelessness}

‘Housing First’ Caused the Homelessness Catastrophe

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 26, 2022
Homelessness}

How did the United States end up in such a filthy state? Blame ideologically driven public policies, most particularly, “Housing First,” a fine-sounding—but ultimately dysfunction-inducing—approach that thwarts ending our homelessness catastrophe. Read More ›

Cropped image of a young african sportsman

^{Gale Pooley
October 26, 2022
Growth}

A Tale of Two Curves: Physical Life vs. Economic Life

_{Gale Pooley
October 26, 2022
Growth}

Our economic lives improve if we are free to continuously add knowledge to our planet’s atoms. Knowledge makes atoms more valuable and more abundant at the same time. To better understand our world, we need to focus on the growth of knowledge instead of the aging of our bodies. We face limits to our mortality, but not limits to the growth in value-creating knowledge. Read More ›