by John Tamny
29.Ibid.
30.Ibid.
31.Ibid.
32.Brooks, Who Really Cares, 119.
33.Brooks, Who Really Cares, 139.
34.Rebecca R. Ruiz and Jere Longman, “Brazil’s Economic Woes Force Paralympic Cuts,” New York Times, August 20, 2016.
Chapter Six: The Millennial Generation Will Be the Richest Yet—Until the Next One
1.Alexandra Wolfe, “Weekend Confidential: Tony Bennett,” Wall Street Journal, November 12–13, 2016.
2.Robert Samuelson, “Why our children’s future no longer looks so bright,” Washington Post, October 16, 2011.
3.Kevin Williamson, “Generation Vexed,” National Review, November 17, 2014.
4.Steven F. Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order (Roseville: Forum, 2001), 581.
5.Ibid., 575.
6.Eric Hoffer, “Notable & Quotable: The Young,” Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2017.
7.Mike Isaac, “Upstarts Raiding Giants for Staff in Silicon Valley,” New York Times, August 19, 2015.
8.John Tamny, “Fear Not, Millennials Are Not Embracing Bernie Sanders Style Socialism,” Forbes, August 3, 2016.
9.Adam Shell, “In Quest for Millennials, Financial Firms Try to ‘Crack the Code,’” USA Today, May 10, 2017.
Chapter Seven: My Story
1.Dominick Dunne, The Way We Lived Then (New York: Crown Books, 1999), 200.
2.Mark Bechtel, “Farewell,” Sports Illustrated, December 28, 2015.
3.Steve Forbes, “Powerful Antiterror Weapon,” Forbes, October 6, 2006.
4.George F. Will, “How income inequality benefits everybody,” Washington Post, March 25, 2015.
5.Charisse Jones, “Many Companies Force Workers to Use Time Off,” USA Today, August 19, 2016.
6.John D. Gartner, The Hypomanic Edge (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005), 12.
7.Ibid., 130.
Chapter Eight: The “Venture Buyer”
1.John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books), 100–101.
2.Allana Akhtar, “U.S. Senate finally ditches Blackberry,” USA Today, July 4, 2016.
3.Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Apple Sales Cool Off As Foes Heat Up,” Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2016.
4.Ibid.
5.Frank Langfitt, “Blacberry or Crackberry? A PDA Culture War,” National Public Radio, January 12, 2005.
6.Adam Thierer, “Bye Bye BlackBerry. How Long Will Apple Last?” Forbes.com, April 1, 2012.
7.Ibid.
8.John C. Dvorak, “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone,” MarketWatch, March 28, 2007, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone.
9.MacDailyNews, “RIM half-CEO doesn’t see threat from Apple’s iPhone,” February 12, 2007.
10.Gregory Korte, “Through executive orders, Obama tests power as purchaser-in-chief,” USA Today, October 11, 2015.
11.Andy Kessler, “Robots, 3-D Printers and Other Looming Innovations,” Wall Street Journal, August 7, 2013.
12.Stewart Wolpin, “Commercial GPS Turns 25: How the Unwanted Military Tech Found Its True Calling,” Mashable, May 25, 2014.
13.Steven F. Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order (Roseville, Calif.: Forum, 2001), 290.
14.Ibid., 7.
15.“Wi-Fi Will Connect Them All,” http://www.wi-fi.org/download.php?file=/sites/default/files/private/Infographic_15_Years_of_Wi-Fi_0.pdf
16.Hayward, The Age of Reagan, 31.
17.Greg Milner, Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds (New York: Norton, 2016), xvi.
18.John Divine, “The $68B Uber IPO Is DEFINITELY Not Worth the Wait,” InvestorPlace, April 19, 2016.
19.Konstantin Kakaes, “New Directions,” Wall Street Journal, June 25–26, 2016.
20.Ludwig von Mises, Socialism (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1979) translation of 2nd edition, 11.
21.“New immunotherapy drug behind Jimmy Carter’s cancer cure,” The Guardian, December 6, 2015.
22.Steven Kutz, “This dog walker probably makes more money than you do,” MarketWatch, February 9, 2016.
23.Ibid.
24.Alexander Lobrano, “By the Numbers: The Ritz Paris,” New York Post, July 26, 2016.
25.Todd Van Luling, “11 Things You Didn’t Know About Costco,” Huffington Post, February 7, 2014.
26.Source, GuildSomm, https://www.guildsomm.com/stay_current/discussion_forums/f/109/t/7078.
27.Dan Neil, “Aston Martin Lagonda: The Thoroughbred Limo,” Wall Street Journal, August 20–21, 2016.
28.Jo Piazza, “It Girl Inc.,” Marie Claire, September 2016.
29.Julie Cresswell, “Young and in Love, With Lipstick and Eyeliner,” New York Times, November 23, 2017.
30.Ibid.
31.Ibid.
32.Ibid.
Chapter Nine: Why We Need People with Money to Burn
1.Warren Brookes, The Economy in Mind (New York: Universe Books, 1982), p. 77.
2.Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011), 407.
3.Ibid., 157.
4.David McCullough, The Wright Brothers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 34.
5.Ibid., 108.
6.Konstantin Kakaes, “New Directions,” Wall Street Journal, June 25–26, 2016.
7.Isaacson, Steve Jobs, 339.
8.Dawn Kawamoto, Ben Heskett, and Mike Ricciuti, “Microsoft to invest $150 million in Apple,” CNET, August 6, 1997.
9.Alexis Tsotsis, “Uber Gets $32 Million From Menlo Ventures, Jeff Bezos, and Goldman Sachs,” Tech Crunch, December 7, 2011.
10.Source: Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/.
11.Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, Zero to One (New York: Crown Business, 2014), 84.
12.Noam Cohen, “Technology’s Trumpian Visions,” New York Times, July 27, 2016.
13.Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2012), 37.
14.Ibid., 13.
15.Ibid., 168.
16.Ibid., 52.
17.Ibid., 60.
18.Ibid., 62.
19.Michael Freeman, ESPN: The Uncensored History (Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2000), 58.
20.Ibid., 59.
21.Ibid.
22.Ibid., 7.
23.Ibid., 77.
24.Thomas Kessner, Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind Its Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003).
25.T. A. Heppenheimer, Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 1995), 109.
26.Ibid., 111.
27.Ibid., 111–112.
28.Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 185.
29.Ibid., 186.
30.Source, IMDB.com, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2691892/?ref_=nv_sr_1.
31.Source, IMDB.com, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3267061/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1.
32.Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares (New York: Basic Books, 2012), 112.
33.George Gilder, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing the World (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2013), 5.
34.Isaacson, The Innovators, 105.
35.Tim Harford, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 10.
36.Source, ESPN Fact Sheet, http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-inc-fact-sheet/.
37.Brooks, Who Really Cares, 101.
38.Ibid., 113.
39.Gilder, Knowledge and Power, 180.
Chapter Ten: Love Your Robot, Love Your Job
1.Russell Banks, “20 Odd Questions,” Wall Street Journal, July 30–31, 2016.
2.Andre Agassi, Open (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 13.
3.Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1979), 28.
4.Source: Forbes, Highest Paid Athletes, http://www.forbes.com/athletes/l
ist/#tab:overall.
5.Source: Forbes, Highest Paid Celebrities, http://www.forbes.com/celebrities/list/#tab:overall.
6.Source: Forbes, The World’s Billionaires, http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/.
7.Joel Trammell, The CEO Tightrope (Austin: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2014), 79.
8.Mat Smith, “Meet the laundry-folding washing machine of our lazy-ass future,” Engadget, October 7, 2015.
9.Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), 36.
10.Eric John Abrahamson, Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of the American Dream (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 29.
11.Robyn Meredith, The Elephant and the Dragon (New York: Norton, 2007), 59.
12.Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, 188.
13.Ibid., 188.
14.Ibid.
Chapter Eleven: Come Inside and Turn on the Xbox, You Have Work to Do
1.Alexandra Wolfe, “Weekend Confidential: Phil Hellmuth,” Wall Street Journal, August 12–13, 2017.
2.USA Today, Sportsline, May 26, 2015.
3.Stephanie Apstein, “Game of Throngs,” Sports Illustrated, November 2, 2015.
4.Ibid.
5.Ibid.
6.Darren Davis, “Should College Students Get a Scholarship to Play Video Games?”SeattleMet, July 18, 2016
7.Apstein, “Game of Throngs.”
8.Ibid.
9.Ibid.
10.Sarah Needleman, “Newest Job in Sports: Videogame Coach,” Wall Street Journal, July 29, 2015.
11.Steve Williams, Out of the Rough: Inside the Ropes with the World’s Greatest Golfers (New York: Viking Press, 2015), 42.
12.Ibid., 22.
13.Ibid.
14.Ibid., 11.
15.Michael Bamberger, “King Among Us,” Sports Illustrated, October 3, 2016.
16.Ibid., 14.
17.Ibid., 15.
18.Ibid., 24.
19.Ibid., 32–33.
20.Ibid., 33.
21.Ibid., 21.
22.Ibid., 187.
23.Hank Haney, The Big Miss (New York: Crown Archetype, 2012), 13.
24.Ibid., 20.
25.Ibid.
26.Ibid.
27.Ibid.,16–17.
28.Ibid., 54.
29.Ibid., 22.
30.Albert Chen and Will Green, “Mutual Attraction,” Sports Illustrated, June 27, 2016.
31.Ibid.
32.“At Thanksgiving, Pet Owners Just Can’t Say ‘No’ to Fido,” Wall Street Journal, November 24, 2015.
33.Laura Meckler and Stephanie Armour, “For Pets, It’s Fat Thursday with Pies, Dressing Under the Table,” Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2015.
34.Choe Sang-Hun, “As Markets Spring Up, Leader’s Grip on North Korea Slackens,” New York Times, May 1, 2017.
35.Georgia Pellegrini, “Out of His Shell,” Wall Street Journal, May 28–29, 2016.
