{"id":14896,"date":"2011-08-08T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14896"},"modified":"2011-08-08T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:50:20","slug":"greco-roman-rejection-of-rotarian-socialism-is-the-cure-for-what-ails-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14896\/greco-roman-rejection-of-rotarian-socialism-is-the-cure-for-what-ails-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Greco-Roman Rejection of Rotarian Socialism Is The Cure For What Ails the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe has tried all sorts of Statist approaches to the PIIGS<\/a> problems.\u00a0 Today, Europeans are considering “liberalization”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As the European financial crisis moves into its next phase, there\u2019s a new word to learn: \u201cliberalization,\u201d and it’s likely to be even more unpopular than \u201causterity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaders in Europe are promising to \u201cliberalize\u201d their economies in an effort to grow those economies, but they face an enormous wall of vested interests that don\u2019t want anything to change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Greg Swann talked about cutting regulations a year ago<\/a>.\u00a0 My comment:<\/p>\n

There are close to 400 licensed occupations. Compile a list of half of them, introduce legislation that outlaws states (and Feds) to regulate any of these professions.\u00a0 Repeat each quarter. Within a year, you\u2019ll only have 25 regulated industries. Within two years, the unemployment rate will drop to 6%, and there will be some 2 million new businesses created<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ohmygosh, cut the licensing regulations?\u00a0 Does that mean that someone, who hasn’t taken a 400-hour licensing course, will be charging money for weaving hair in their living room?\u00a0 The horror.\u00a0 How will the public ever be protected from bad hair-weavererers?<\/a>\u00a0 Reputation management is already happening in the free market.\u00a0 Read Greg’s response:<\/p>\n

Check. There\u2019s more that can be done, much of it to the benefit of very small businesses. Consider this: When you\u2019re trying to decide if you should take a chance on a restaurant, who do you trust more, a city inspector who may be on the take or nine fiercely independent Yelpers? The dollar cost of preventing injuries that almost never happen is half of our economy \u2014 which is nothing compared to the opportunity costs and interest value of those lost opportunities. We\u2019ve got a dinghy loaded up with admirals and we can\u2019t figure out why it\u2019s slowly sinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who then would stand in the way of\u00a0 “liberalization”?\u00a0 Let’s go back to the CNBC article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Leaders in Europe are promising to \u201cliberalize\u201d their economies in an effort to grow those economies, but they face an enormous wall of vested interests that don\u2019t want anything to change.<\/p>\n

Take the case of Simon Galina, a 38-year-old taxi driver in Rome. His profession is one Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Europe has tried all sorts of Statist approaches to the PIIGS problems.\u00a0 Today, Europeans are considering “liberalization”: As the European financial crisis moves into its next phase, there\u2019s a new word to learn: \u201cliberalization,\u201d and it’s likely to be even more unpopular than \u201causterity.\u201d Leaders in Europe are promising to \u201cliberalize\u201d their economies in an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,212,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-supplanting-the-nar","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12043,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12043\/everything-the-ancient-greeks-warned-us-about-democracy-has-come-true-in-modern-greece-and-right-here-in-river-city-as-well\/","url_meta":{"origin":14896,"position":0},"title":"Everything the ancient Greeks warned us about democracy has come true in modern Greece — and right here in River City as well","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mark Steyn in Macleans:Traditionally, a bank is a means by which old people with capital lend to young people with ideas. 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