Archive | January, 2014

Kevin O’Leary Celebrates Crony Capitalism

On a recent episode of the Canadian business show The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, Kevin O’Leary, a Successful Canadian businessman and star of the reality show Shark Tank, ignorantly described how people living in poverty is “fantastic news”. O’Leary praised the recently released statistic that the combined wealth of the world’s 85 richest people is […]

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Posted in Austrian Economics, Economic Crisis325 Comments

Can Doctors Fix Poverty?

Many health care professionals in Toronto are calling on their provincial government to raise the minimum wage by $3.75/hour to $14.  They argue that poverty is not just a public health issue but “the biggest barrier to good health.”  The group Health Providers Against Poverty is behind the movement and it seems that doctors orders […]

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Posted in Austrian Economics, Featured1,543 Comments


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