Beach Day 2015 | Lakes Region Porcupines Summer BBQ
The Lakes Region Porcupines held their first annual Beach Day this past Saturday, July 25th at Weirs Beach on Lake Winnipesaukee in Laconia. Around 40 adults and 12 kids came out to play in the clean, blue water and run around in the warm sun.
State of Liberty: A Dartmouth Student Reviews Liberty Forum
Brian Chen, a Dartmouth College student, recently attended Liberty Forum for the first time and covered it in The Dartmouth Review. In the article, he shares his impressions of the conference and the Free State Project. Chen writes: "There is the trope that...
How to Ferment a Nano-Brewvolution
by Kevin Bloom Editor's Note: The following article first appeared in the 3rd edition of The Free Stater magazine, which was distributed at Liberty Forum 2015. Kevin Bloom's story exemplifies the old adage: "Where there is a will, there is a way." Because of the...
Comparative Advantage for Economy and Career
All wealth comes from production and exchange: making and trading goods and services. The two are closely related: the more you trade, the more you’re able to produce. How does that work? Through the magic of specialization.
When you trade, you’re able to specialize in your comparative advantage, that is, what you can do relatively cheaply compared to everyone else. If you didn’t trade, you’d have to make everything yourself: clothes, food, shelter, transportation, health care, etc. You’d be very, very poor. By trading with other people, you can focus on doing one narrow thing really, really well, earning money, and trading that money away for other goods and services that other people focus on doing really, really well.
Sarah Leaves Philadelphia, Joins New Hampshire’s Liberty Community
Community. The word always left a bad taste in my mouth. In my life, “community” has meant something awful, something dreadful. And by age 23, I knew that becoming part of a community was something I would fight to avoid at all costs. I think it was just after...