Archive for Vollie Tripp
Regaining Lost Freedoms: A Plan
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and the promotion of free enterprise. Everyone agrees that "sin" is a bad thing, to be overcome if possible, resisted always. There is complete agreement that all should enjoy good health. Practically everyone assumes a personal obligation to keep as fit [...]
1Mar1960 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Auction Sale: Epitome of the Free Market
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and the promotion of free enterprise. I have just had a thrilling experience—watching an old-fashioned auction. What is there so exciting about following a loquacious auctioneer about a hot dusty Kansas farmyard, while stolid farmers bid for cultivators, plows, laying hens, [...]
1Nov1959 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy those who receive so often turn to bite…The Helping Hand
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and the promotion of free enterprise. Human nature often is revealed in jokes, such as the one about the businessman seated in his office, when his excited secretary burst in. "There’s a man here named Bill Simpson, and he says he’s [...]
1May1959 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedSome Questions for Consideration by Modern Idol Worshipers
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and promotion of free enterprise. Idol worship is frowned upon as a general practice in this sophisticated age. You would have to conduct a lengthy survey to find even one of our "progressive" citizens worshiping a graven image. However, the worship [...]
1Apr1959 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedWhen Free Men Speak
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and promotion of free enterprise. A human being is an amazing and amusing critter. He is amazing in numberless ways. But the oddity which meets our purpose just now is his ability to like what he gets. This is not true [...]
1Apr1958 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedDeath of a Colony
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and promotion of free enterprise. Job Harriman, noted lawyer, J friend of the late Clarence Darrow, was an ardent socialist, and he tried to promote at least two communal colonies. One colony, planted in Antelope Valley, in the barren country [...]
1Mar1958 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | ContinuedRenaissance In Responsibility
Mr. Tripp, retired from the building business, now devotes full time to travel, writing, and promotion of free enterprise. There are several ways of Ting with financial problems learning to create more, learning to live on less, ganging up on the well-to-do. Aside from the moral aspects, the last method is the least satisfactory way [...]
1Feb1958 | Vollie Tripp | 0 comments | Continued-
The Latest
JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More




