Funded individual pensions liberate citizens, especially the less well-off, from dependence on the state in retirement, and replace that dependence with financial self-determination.

ECONOMIST: Latin lessons on pensions

The path to energy self sufficiency would require less dependence on the OPEC cartel and fewer dollars being spent protecting supplies in risky areas like the Middle East, thus lowering our defense budget and improving our budget deficit situation.

FORBES: Time for Solutions

The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.

FORBES: The Carbon Bubble

With the same act, I would be supporting a new class of micro-entrepreneurs creating a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, rather than one of aid-dependence.

FORBES: Cleaner Cookstoves For Christmas