Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 3: Habits & Complexes

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 3 of a 5-part article.

Read Part 1 Here
Read Part 2 Here

There are at least two major roadblocks hindering this needed Freedom Shift.

The first is habit. Our society has become habituated, at times addicted, to certain lifestyles.

For example, when the recession hit, people spent more money, not less, at McDonald’s. We are habituated to eating out, and tightening our belts in hard times has come to include eating even more french fries.

Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs …

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 2: Major Challenges

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 2 of a 5-part article.

Read Part 1 Here

Consider the major problems we are facing.

Most are the natural results of too much reliance on institutional size and power and not enough initiative, innovation, and leadership from “little guys.”

Of course, the few who are entrepreneurs do an amazing job against increasing odds.

But a major shift to the Producer Mindset is needed to overcome our current challenges—and more such challenges will continue to arise as long as we stay addicted to big institutions.

Specifically, the major concerns we’re facing in the years and decades ahead include the following:

Running out of …

Overcoming Hamilton’s Curse, Part 1: Failed Solutions

Specific Solutions that Only Entrepreneurs Can Provide
This is part 1 of a 5-part article.

When America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton’s economic model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation.

Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm and shop owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred a mercantile system with a few wealthy owners employing the large majority of the populace.

Hamilton felt that an increase in wealth among the leading families would make up for the reduced freedom and less-widespread prosperity under a mercantile economy.

After all, this was the model used by the most powerful nations in Europe.

Ironically, …

21st Century Georgics: An Introduction

A key factor in maintaining freedom is sustainable economic forms.

Are you maintaining freedom through the financial principles and practices you are using? Have American families adopted the economic forms necessary for the preservation of a free people?

The average American household pays over 34.5% of every dollar earned to interest payments. Forget about the taxes — that is serious bondage!

Our system has become top heavy, threatening our economic solvency as a nation and necessitating large government bailouts to offset their blunders.

When a government is forced to tax its people heavily to keep economic …

The 4 People You Meet on the Ocean of Life

I spent last Friday at a seminar with Roy H. Williams, the renowned “Wizard of Ads” and founder of the world-famous Wizard Academy.

He shared the following insight, which he learned from Mike Metzger:

“You meet 4 kinds of people on the ocean of life.”

“Those who drift just go with the flow. The wind and the waves control their speed and direction. The drifter quietly floats along and says, ‘Whatever.’”

“Those who surf are always riding a wave, the next big thing. They stay excited until the wave fades away, then they scan the horizon for something new. Surfers don’t usually get anywhere, but they make a lot of …