Universal Basic Income (UBI)

Politics, Economics, & Investing in the Trump Era

Rod's conversation on "Politics in Perspective" with historian and former California Republican Chairman Tom Del Becarro.

Jul 29, 2025 • Rod D. Martin and Thomas Del Beccaro

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The America Party Is A Bad Idea...For Elon

Musk's entry into American civic life has been highly positive. But the legalities surrounding his new political party could derail his plans, and his…

Jul 10, 2025 • Rod D. Martin

ChatGPT Is Just a Fancy Calculator: Why AI Is Going to Create More Jobs, Not Less

Productivity and economic growth are a tide that lifts all boats, whether we're talking about agricultural machinery or artificial intelligence.

Jan 31, 2025 • Rod D. Martin

Robots and AI Will Not Create Mass Unemployment

Despite widespread adoption of new information technologies, the U.S. is not seeing rapid job obsolescence. In fact, we’re seeing just the opposite.

Sep 24, 2018 • Patrick Cox

A Universal Basic Income Would Engorge the Paternal State

A UBI would quickly become the mechanism of central control. It would also create legions of human house cats.

Jun 14, 2018 • Guest Author

Will Robots Put Everyone Out of Work?

Short-Term Substitutes, Long-Term Complements.

Aug 12, 2017 • Guest Author

The “Fair” Tax Creates Huge New Welfare Scheme

Proponents have been too clever by half.

Apr 4, 2006 • Rod D. Martin

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