The most dangerous “truism” for individual investors is that buy-and-hold investing is the best investment strategy to use. It’s especially dangerous for investors wanting to retire. Take a moment to educate yourself. If you’re an investor in the stock market — and who isn’t these days — with the proliferation of mutual funds and self-directed…
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5 Common Salesforce Problems
My colleague Michal and I founded Maintask in 2017 in the hopes that we could transform the liberty movement from within. This transformation occurs for each pro-liberty group we work with by maximizing their Salesforce capabilities to make their team more efficient and effective at carrying out its mission. No matter where your organization is,…
Beware: The Government is Stealing People’s Homes
“I still can’t believe this happened to me,” says Deborah Foss, a 67-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts. Last winter, Deborah lost her home and was forced to move into her car after she fell behind on her property taxes. Her home was worth more than she owed the government, but unbelievably, she lost it all. That’s…
Considerations in Government Funding Control of Education
For years I have been attending both libertarian and conservative conferences on education, hoping for an opportunity to discuss truly free-market educational options. I was so grateful when FreedomFest asked me to be a guest on two panels: 1) “The School Choice Revolution: A Review on How Far We’ve Come and Where We’re Headed,” and…
Banned from FreedomFest? Our Side of the Story
A rumor has circulated over the past three months that Jason Rink, a well-known libertarian filmmaker, was banned or canceled from FreedomFest. This simply isn’t true. In fact, Jason purchased a ticket and attended the event. And he was tentatively scheduled to speak at Anthem, but he asked us to remove him from the panel.…
Lessons from a Venezuelan Refugee: Socialism is Not the Answer
Across U.S. college campuses, a dangerous and misdirected ideology has been flourishing—that socialism is the answer to the nation’s problems. Socialism’s true believers say that a free-market system is a key cause of the country’s inequality, and that further government intervention is the solution. This could not be farther from the truth. How do I…
Education Freedom is on the March
In case you haven’t heard, education freedom is on the march in America. Parents are fed up with the status quo, they’re fighting back – and they’re winning. On Thursday, July 14, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos joined me at FreedomFest, where we discussed the unlimited potential that exists when parents are empowered to make…
Welcoming an Innovative, Decentralized Future for American Education
With the new school year starting in August in many parts of the country, it’s an exciting time for parents, educators, and learners. American families today have more education choices than ever before, and educators have many more career opportunities to explore. From the stunning expansion of state-level school choice policies that enable education dollars…
Reclaiming Free Speech in a Growing Culture of Censorship
Calls to shut down “misinformation” targeting the country’s most popular podcast, social media posts from an editor’s teenage years getting her fired from Teen Vogue, a Georgetown University law professor placed under investigation for a single tweet, legislators across the country attempting to ban entire academic subjects: These are just a few examples of the…
Sex Workers’ Freedom Impacts Us All
The reasons to decriminalize consensual adult sex work are numerous and compelling. They are based in evidence, in reason, and in the principles that those of us who value liberty, freedom, bodily autonomy, privacy, and choice hold dear. Proponents of the criminalization of consensual adult sex work perpetuate the harms that laws based in ideology,…