Germinal G. Van

Economist • Award-winning author • Founder & Owner of GGV Publishing Company, LLC

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

SVB shouldn’t be bailed out. Let the market on its own and weed out companies that have become inefficient. Bailing out is maintaining inefficiency and this is no good for markets.
#SVB #noBailout #letthemarketwork #BankRuns #BankCrash #BankFailures

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What Sowell said is exactly right and needs to stop.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

African leaders decided to embrace Marxist socialist ideals post liberation. That's why Africa remains poor. @magattew

[Chad O. Jackson @chadojackson]

Freedom requires responsibility. And responsibility requires knowledge.

When the basis of what you know are lies and half-truths, you become susceptible to demagoguery.

[Per Bylund @PerBylund]

Well worth watching: @ryanmcmaken visits @JohnStossel https://t.co/fPdawWmGUO

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

How do you change someone's mind about free markets?

You don't argue. You connect dots.
A grieving mother was crying, telling me “capitalism” killed her son. He drowned trying to reach Europe on a boat.

I sat with her. Then I asked her one question: why did he leave?

To find a job. Why couldn't he find one at home? Because there are none. Why are there none? Because Senegal makes it nearly impossible to start a business.

By the end of our conversation, she understood.

Free markets were the only thing that could have saved her son.

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

The Myth of Democracy: How Does Democracy Lead to the Expansion of Government Bureaucracy
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New article released on my substack. This article focuses on the reasons democracy inevitably leads to the expansion of government bureaucracy. In this article, I essentially used two perspectives to show how democracy leads to the expansion of government bureaucracy. The first perspective used is the public-choice approach, developed by Buchanan and Tullock; and the second perspective used is the Hoppean perspective from Hans-Herman Hoppe.
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[ἐκον βρω @EconBreau]

Socialism is the theory that if you abolish profit, bread will somehow bake itself out of moral superiority.

[Dr. Kurt Jefferson's Leadership Page on "X" @U3LPodcast]

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[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a heterodox school of macroeconomic thought, which argues that government can print and spend money unrestrainedly. While this this economic thinking was initially developed by the Chartalist School, it gained traction recently with Stephanie Kelton, author of the New York Times Bestselling book "The Deficit Myth." This short documentary explains how MMT came to being, how it works, and more importantly, why it is an impractical economic theory.

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

Why do Americans Confuse Democracy with Freedom?

Read my latest Substack's article on Democracy and Liberty. In this article, I explain why democracy is not freedom, and and why democracy does not guarantee freedom. #democracy #liberty #PoliticalPhilosophy #politicaltheory

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[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

In America, people who subscribe to the socialist ideology love to call themselves “Democratic Socialist” as a way to distance themselves from Soviet-style socialism. However, insisting on the word “Democratic” does not make socialism less socialistic than it already is. The foundation of socialism is coercion, whether you call it “democratic,” “participatory,” and so on, and coercion suggests to arbitrarily undermine liberty. 

For any goal that socialism aims to achieve (equality, social justice, wealth redistribution…etc.), coercion is required. Taxation and the confiscation of private property (nationalization of industries, asset forfeiture, eminent domain…etc.) are the utmost embodiment of coercion, and they are both needed for a socialistic society to work on a basic level.

The word “democratic” is added to socialism to make socialism look less threatening, less violent, and more “cooperative.” It is added to make people believe that they still retain their freedom under a socialistic framework as most people wrongly believe that democracy equals freedom, which is definitely not the case. Democracy has nothing to do with freedom.

Thus, calling yourself a “Democratic socialist” does not suddenly exclude or even suppress the coercive nature of socialism. That’s why “Democratic Socialism” is a mirage, a farce, and a distraction to lull people’s mind about the real agenda of socialists in America.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Milton Friedman: "Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only… How much government is spending"

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

You can’t have unlimited immigration and unlimited benefits.

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

@voluntarysarg Did I lie?

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

We didn't have to wait until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 to see the limitations and failure of socialism. In fact, socialism had already demonstrated its failure during Lenin's lifetime in 1921, when the bald bourgeois with a goatee and broad forehead admitted that the only way to revive economic production in Soviet Russia was to open up markets and restore private property through the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP). 

The NEP was an economic system that consisted of applying the principles of the free market and capitalism to a socialist economy. From 1917 to 1921, Soviet Russia was under a revolutionary socialist regime. Private property was abolished, farmers' land was confiscated, and industries were nationalized. During these four years of socialist rule under Lenin's absolute control, the economy of Soviet Russia plummeted. This calamitous failure and collapse of socialism forced Lenin to recognize that a market economy was necessary to revive the economy. 

Following the implementation of the NEP, agricultural production increased significantly, and the economy of Soviet Russia was finally able to stabilize. Socialism is not an economic system compatible with human nature. When you remove the incentive to produce, logically, production can only fall. And Lenin, the man who wrote numerous books to argue that capitalism was bad, himself saw with his own eyes that only capitalism can truly make a society functioning and prosperous, but if he admitted publicly, he’d look like an idiot.

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Many people, for far too long, had believed that the role of the State is to take care of its citizens. This assumption has given the State an altruistic nature assuming that government action is purely benevolent. However, two economists, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, developed a robust theoretical framework through their groundbreaking book entitled “The Calculus of Consent,” to prove that government action is not based on altruism and benevolence, but based on self-interests. This video explains how public choice theory shaped how we view the role of government and state apparatus. #publicchoicetheory #jamesmbuchanan #gordontullock #governmentfailures

[Germinal G. Van @germinalgvan]

Totalitarian regimes always emerge from left-wing ideologies, whether communism/socialism, fascism, or Nazism. Left-wing ideologies all have one thing in common: they prioritize the group and the collective at the expense of the individual. Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Hitler's Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Fascist Italy, and Franco's Fascist Spain were all totalitarian regimes that advocated the supremacy of the collective through the total submission of the individual to the state.

Totalitarianism emerges as a result of a system in which the individual is completely deprived of their rights and freedoms. It emerges in a top-down structured system, a society focused on the centralization of state politics.

Whereas in a society that places the individual above the group, the system is structured from the bottom up. And in such a system, it is impossible to have a totalitarian system because the individual's ability to think for themselves is emphasized as opposed to that of the collective. Totalitarianism cannot occur in a society where the rights of the individual are protected.