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President Reagan on Dr. Friedman and Free To Choose (1:09) Jul 18, 2013. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, our prosperity and freedom.

Reagan tells Soviet jokes (5:30) Mar 18, 2008.

The Best of President Reagan’s Humor (7:31) Mar 29, 2017.

RONALD REAGAN’S Powerful Speech (10:37) Jan 29, 2022.

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Milton Friedman on Corporate Capitalism (0:41) Mar 16, 2018. Businesses take over government regulation.

Milton Friedman on Healthcare and the Poor (1:38) May 16, 2013. A negative income tax for the poor.

Milton Friedman – Your Greed or Their Greed? (2:23) Jul 14, 2007. Phil Donahue interview. Self interest is universal.

Milton Friedman – I, Pencil (2:25) Jul 31, 2012. Not a single person can make this pencil. The price system.

Milton Friedman – Capitalism and the Future of Freedom (3:15) Sep 11, 2015. Only markets create wealth.

Milton Friedman – Redistribution of Wealth (4:21) Feb 12, 2010. Family incentive and inheritance tax.

Milton Friedman on Capitalism and Poverty (5:31) Jul 4, 2010. Market cures, government causes poverty.

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Milton Friedman – The Four Ways to Spend Money (1:46) Jul 31, 2012. Own $ on self, own $ on others, other’s $ on self, other’s $ on others.

Adam Smith, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman & Capitalism? (2:01) Jul 19, 2011.

Milton Friedman on Classical Liberalism (2:03) Mar 12, 2013. Meaning of “liberal”.

Milton Friedman on Self Interest (2:09) Sep 22, 2011. Persuasion, coercion, and self interest.

Milton Friedman on Wage and Price Controls (2:19) Feb 3, 2013. Wage and price controls never cure inflation.

Milton Friedman Sets Liberal Straight On “Too Many Millionaires” (2:31) Nov 6, 2011. Investment and employment.

Milton Friedman: Sweden and Government Healthcare (2:39) Dec 15, 2013. State control of physicians.

Milton Friedman on Trade Balance and Tariffs (2:44) Mar 17, 2013. Invisible effects of tariffs on employment.

Why Milton Friedman is Not a Hollywood Liberal (3:48) Dec 13, 2012. Pro markets vs. pro business.

Milton Friedman Why Obamacare Won’t Work (3:48) Sep 29, 2013. Medical profession and socialized medicine.

Milton Friedman on Public Housing (3:49) Jun 14, 2013. Has not improved the housing of the poor.

Milton Friedman – How “Socialism is a Failure” in America! (3:52) Dec 19, 2012. Federal debt since 1900.

Milton Friedman – Monopoly (4:17) Jan 29, 2010. What law prevents monopolies? Free trade.

Milton Friedman: The Problem of Bureaucracy (4:22) Feb 15, 2012. Schools, garbage, post office, fire dept.

Milton Friedman Crushes Man’s 3 Questions like Dixie Cups (7:11) May 22, 2012. Free market examples.

Milton Friedman – Health Care in a Free Market (9:02) Sep 25, 2009. FDA an unmitigated disaster. Licensure no assurance of quality. A negative income tax for the poor.

“There has never in history been a more effective machine for eliminating poverty than the free enterprise system and the free market.” Milton Friedman, Stanford University, 1978

What is Different About Capitalism? (0:45) Aug 14, 2013. Chiefly an information system not an incentive system.

Where Does Economic Growth Come From? (0:50) Jun 7, 2013. Growth comes from surprising ideas not money.

What is the Best Way to Care for the Poor? (1:28) Oct 8, 2013. Job opportunities to contribute not dependency programs.

How do we Spur Innovation & Job Creation? (1:45) Jan 9, 2014. Deregulate entrepreneurs. Lay off government regulators.

What Creates Wealth? (5:31) Aug 11, 2014. Cave man. Freedom promotes knowledge, innovation, growth, and wealth.

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What is the Impact of Raising Taxes on the Wealthy? (1:30) Apr 15, 2014. Less productive investment, more consumption.

Why Are You Hopeful for America? (1:38) Nov 4, 2013. USA accommodates creativity, the source of wealth.

Is Capitalism Based on Greed (1:58) Jun 26, 2013. Desire for wealth, like gravity, is ubiquitous.

How Do Tax Rates Affect Revenue? (2:15) Sep 3, 2013. Art Laffer curve. Lower tax rates increase government revenue.

Why Capitalism Works (3:43) May 10, 2014. Capitalism a competition of giving based on altruism.

Who Is Karl Marx? (5:31) Sep 24, 2018. Mass murder and catastrophe in all countries adopting Marxism.

Dr Jordan Peterson- Dangerous People Are Teaching Your Kids (5:02) Jan 10, 2021. Marxists dominate colleges.

Climate Change: What Do Scientists Say? (5:04) Apr 18, 2016. MIT physicist skeptical of climate alarmists.

Is Denmark Socialist? (5:25) Apr 22, 2019. Denmark free market capitalist. Property rights. No minimum wage.

Why We’re Losing Liberty (5:33) Sep 7, 2015. 9th and 10th Amendments. The doctrine of enumerated powers.

As the Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer (5:43) Apr 9, 2018. Free markets have greatly enriched the poor.

Why Private Investment Works & Govt. Investment Doesn’t (5:53) Apr 25, 2016. Railroad and airplane history.

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How Does the Minimum Wage Work? (2:05) Oct 21, 2016. Minimum wages cost jobs.

Big Government Kills Small Businesses (2:20) Mar 24, 2017. Government regulation hurts employment.

Government Can’t Fix Healthcare (4:19) Jul 17, 2017. 3rd party purchases increase cost and lower quality.

Socialism Makes People Selfish (4:23) Jul 18, 2016. Socialism creates dependence and ingratitude.

Democratic Socialism is Still Socialism (4:25) Oct 31, 2016. Hamas, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Denmark, Sweden.

Income Inequality is Good (4:38) Sep 5, 2016. Personal freedom. Price of luxuries fall.

What is Crony Capitalism? (5:03) Feb 22, 2016. Government-subsidized business unfair, wasteful, corrupt.

How Socialism Ruined My Country (5:06) Mar 30, 2017. Elected socialists in Brazil caused economic collapse.

Would a Flat Tax Be More Fair? (5:23) Dec 19, 2016. Simple 17% flat tax would curb crony capitalism.

How’s Socialism Doing in Venezuela? (5:30) Aug 28, 2017. Hugo Chavez elected 1999. Economy ruined. 2M flee.

How to Solve America’s Spending Problem (5:37) Sep 29, 2014. Reduce growth of Social Security and Medicare.

America’s Socialist Origins (5:38) Mar 21, 2016. Communal land in Jamestown and Plymouth caused starvation.

“Thus capitalism is the system under which the keenest and most agile minds are driven to promote to the best of their abilities the welfare of the laggard many.” Ludwig von Mises

Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman provided the following testimonial for these videos: “… a clear and concise exposition of the fundamental difference between socialism and capitalism. It is clear, interesting and enlightening. It deserves to be widely viewed.”

Capitalism 01 – Why are some countries rich and others poor? (2:31) Sep 8, 2011.

Capitalism 02 – The early American colonists and communal farming (1:26) Sep 8, 2011.

Capitalism 03 – The industrial revolution and the exploitation of women and children (2:40) Sep 8, 2011.

Capitalism 04 – Inventions of a competitive free enterprise system (3:10) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 05 – Socialism, capitalism and democracy defined (1:11) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 06 – Collectivized agriculture in the Soviet Union, China and Cuba (1:58) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 07 – The direction of immigration: from socialist to capitalist countries (1:03) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 08 – The annual Economic Freedom of the World reports (3:05) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 09 – Compassion for the poor (1:41) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 10 – World genocide records (4:54) Sep 9, 2011. Soviet Union, China, Nazi Germany.

Capitalism 11 – Socialism’s appeal to voters, business owners and government employees (1:53) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 12 – Functions of government in a capitalistic country (3:46) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 13 – Democracy: current views, founders’ views, socialists’ views (5:05) Sep 9, 2011.

Capitalism 14 – The United States Constitution and the Tenth Amendment (2:33) Sep 10, 2011.

Capitalism 15 – Expanded federal powers and the interstate commerce clause (4:05) Sep 10, 2011.

D’Souza: Democrats And Slavery (2:54) Jun 19, 2016. Antebellum and postbellum sins of the Democratic Party.

SLAM DUNK: Dinesh D’Souza – Bill Ayers (3:15) Aug 1, 2018. Govt education and healthcare rip off taxpayers.

BACK THE BLUE: D’Souza – BlackLivesMatter (3:26) Jan 31, 2019. Left created horrible schools, broken families.

D’Souza – 4 million slaves in 1860 (3:38) Jan 18, 2018. Democrats, slavery, KKK. No Republican owned a slave.

Is Fascism Right Or Left? (5:37) Dec 4, 2017. Giovanni Gentile. State control of education, healthcare, energy…

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FACE THE FACTS: D’Souza (1:49) Dec 13, 2018. Why leftists Stalin and Hitler at war? Similar ideologies often war.

Dinesh D’Souza on Democratic Party (2:26) Aug 11, 2016. JFK pro Nazi. FDR pro Fascist. Left out of text books.

D’Souza PROVES Democrats are still running the plantation today (2:31) Oct 9, 2018.

DIDN’T SEE THIS COMING: D’Souza (2:54) Nov 24, 2018. Fascist tactics to silence speech.

D’Souza reveals how minorities have been used & lied to by the Left (3:02) May 24, 2019. Progressive history.

LOGIC 101: D’Souza – Stanford student (3:28) Mar 10, 2019. KKK overwhelmingly Democratic, LBJ racist.

Dr. Walter Williams Highlights (3:35) Aug 5, 2013. Forcible use of one person to serve purposes of another immoral.

Profits Are Progressive (5:21) April 6, 2015. Profits provide goods. Govt agencies can’t be fired. Limit government.

Is Capitalism Moral? (5:22) Sep 14, 2015. Free markets trade without coercion. Limit govt to its enumerated powers.

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Walter Williams: Minimum Wage (0:32) Feb 24, 2019. Could Bangladesh be rich by passing a high minimum wage?

Walter Williams: Frederick Douglass (1:04) Feb 21, 2019. Economics tends to bring people to their senses.

Walter E Williams – The Free Market (2:25) Apr 10, 2015. Profit motive gets people to serve their fellow man.

Walter E. Williams – White Privilege (3:16) Oct 12, 2017. Immigration. Communist deaths. Illegitimacy and slavery.

Walter E Williams – Democratic Tyranny (3:37) May 9, 2011. Majority rule a contemptible form of govt. A republic.

Walter Williams – James Buchanan – Constitution’s Erosion (3:50) Nov 24, 2010. 10th Amendment. Civil War. New Deal.

Walter E Williams – Black Families and Welfare (3:56) Nov 8, 2013. The welfare state destroyed black families.

“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” Walter Williams

Renew America – Reclaim Free Enterprise (0:34) May 3, 2012. Imagine an economy that promotes real fairness.

There Is Only One Way Out of Poverty (4:10) Mar 13, 2017. Friedrich Hayek. Poverty programs vs. requiring work.

Myths, Lies and Capitalism (4:28) Jan 19, 2015. Hurts poor. Driven by greed. Breeds envy. Caused recession. Unfair.

Hate Poverty? Love Capitalism (4:40) Aug 31, 2017. Globalization, free trade, prop. rights, rule of law, entrepreneurship.

The Promise of Free Enterprise (4:31) Jun 9, 2014. Pursuit of happiness: Dreams, working hard, pleasing customers.

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Is free enterprise really based on greed? (0:58) May 11, 2012. The moral core of free enterprise is earned success.

Arthur Brooks: Fairness (1:15) Apr 11, 2012. National debt, privileged bureaucrats, crony capitalism are not fair.

Arthur Brooks on Social Security (1:33) May 27, 2010. A forced savings plan, unlike financial and auto bailouts.

Arthur Brooks: Making the moral case (2:06) May 16, 2012. Thanksgiving. Earned success, fairness, lifting the poor.

The Case for Capitalism (2:18) Apr 18, 2019. 80% of starvational poverty eradicated since 1970 by free enterprise.

Purpose of capitalism – Dalai Lama (3:08) Nov 4, 2016. Free enterprise: Build something, earn a living, serve others.

Thomas Sowell – Most Diverse Country (1:47) Aug 25, 2016. U.S. blessed with one language unlike balkanized India.

Thomas Sowell: The Poverty Empire (1:56) Oct 15, 2010. Poverty programs enrich bureaucrats but keep people poor.

Thomas Sowell – Making Discrimination Costly (2:21) Sep 12, 2016. Maximum freedom. Jim Crow laws. Harlem.

Thomas Sowell – Obama’s Health Care Reform (2:49) Aug 21, 2009. Canada and Britain. Quality. Waiting lists.

Thomas Sowell ~ The Unintended Consequences of Affirmative Action (2:57) Jun 11, 2012.

Thomas Sowell – Academia in America (3:18) Oct 3, 2011. Professors and students taking money from working Joes.

Ben Shapiro – Socialism (1:30) Feb 26, 2018. Socialism is tyranny. Your freedom, time, and labor belong to society.

Ben Shapiro – minimum wage laws (2:43) Apr 4, 2019. People not worth the minimum denied the choice of a job.

Ben Shapiro – Marxism’s appeal (3:08) Dec 7, 2018. A communal utopia to live for. Read Orwell’s 1940 Hitler essay.

Ben Shapiro – Norway (3:31) Oct 28, 2018. Socialism has failed every time in precisely the degree it has been tried.

Obamacare Failed (3:13) Mar 23, 2016. Promised lower cost, universal access. Got higher cost, less competition.

3 Myths of Capitalism (3:29) Apr 16, 2016. Pro-capitalism, not pro-business. Unfair distribution. 2008 financial crisis.

Trade and immigration (3:55) May 22, 2014. Turning corn into cars. Immigration is trading labor. Anti-foreigner bias.

Ayn Rand – Biggest Threat (4:03) Feb 6, 2013. Universities teaching collectivism, mysticism, not reason, individualism.

Ayn Rand – Phil Donahue (4:20) Dec 1, 2012. Oil monopoly. Only government action creates monopolies.

Charlie Kirk – “Democratic” Socialism (2:17) Jul 13, 2017. Millions killed by governments promising democratic socialism.

Charlie Kirk – Turning Point USA (2:32) Aug 4, 2017. Conservative and free market ideas suppressed on college campuses.

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