Author: Eric Lumpkins

Freedom and prosperity is inevitable. Human flourishing and freedom has only truly existed for about 200 years. For the rest of human history life was plagued with misery, suffering, poverty, violence, and oppression. For most of history people have lived as slaves to someone. We are in the very beginning of a new era of […]

If you’ve been following the precious metals market at all during the last 8-10 years, you’d know that gold bugs can be dogmatically bullish with their continual predictions that gold and silver will be going to the moon in short order. While we can understand that the fundamentals – massive money printing, low interest rates, […]

Many people believe that becoming a morning person is just not worth it, and that’s because they’re unaware of what they could get out of being a morning person. If they understood what they truly wanted out of life and if they understood that being a morning person would get them closer to what they […]

Most Americans agree that the United States government is corrupt and does not serve the interests of the American people. Many people agree that our political system is broken and has gone off the rails. Many people also feel disenfranchised and apathetic. They are unsure of how they can be valuable in improving the world […]

Who pushes society forward the most? Who is it that creates technology and valuable goods and services for the masses of people? Who is it that enhances society’s knowledge and disrupts the antiquated economic and political orders? The answer: Entrepreneurs. The Anti-Entrepreneurial Mentality Entrepreneurs all throughout history have been disliked, insulted, and looked down upon, […]

When the Federal Reserve began its massive money printing programs called quantitative easing, some conservative and free market-minded economists warned of high inflation as a result of this money printing. When this high inflation never came, the big government Keynesians who supported the money printing said “What inflation? You were wrong.” It wasn’t so much […]

Most people in society today have poor posture of their shoulders and torso. The reason for this is because of the amount of sitting we do – in the car, at work, on the couch. We spend so much time slouching and rounding our posture forward that it is wreaking havoc on the structural integrity […]

For decades it has been commonly accepted by many that conservatives, Republicans, and the right are the banner carriers of free market capitalism. But through the decades their actions have told another story. Republicans all too often campaign like small-government libertarians and then rule like Democrats. My goal here isn’t to criticize conservatives, but rather […]

One of the most cited economic articles of all time, Nobel Prize-winning Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek’s “The Use of Knowledge in Society” discusses some very important and fascinating ideas that help us grasp the importance of the market economy. Decentralized decision making, self-governance, individualistic knowledge, and the rapid communication of the price system are […]

Populists from all sides of the political spectrum think they know THE solution that is going to finally make the economy start working for the everyday masses of people. Trump and the right want to impose tariffs and restrict immigration in the hopes of preserving American jobs. Bernie Sanders and the progressive left want high […]