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19 Sep Our Planet Is Drowning in Plastic Pollution, But Several Solutions Are Already Here—Thanks to Human Ingenuity

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Some estimates show that by 2050 there may be more plastic in the ocean than fish (937 million tons of plastic versus 895 million tons of fish). So yes, plastic pollution is a genuine problem. But asking government to somehow regulate it out of existence is...

19 Sep Boudreaux on Government’s Nature

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Don Boudreaux writes: One general lesson that I draw from facts such as this one [the fact he’s referring to is that during the pandemic, the FDA actually used the Covid-19 emergency as a pretext to slow the approval of SARS-CoV-2 tests, rather than what many...

19 Sep Ep. 1974 Jay Bhattacharya on Herd Immunity, Seasonal Spikes, and the Return of Rationality

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Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya returns to the show to discuss the recent southern spike, the prospects for herd immunity, and his grounds for optimism, among much else. Sponsor BitTrust IRA helps you seamlessly and securely add cryptocurrency to your portfolio. It stores your private keys in nuclear...

18 Sep Socialism Must Lower – It Cannot Raise – Living Standards for the Masses

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetMy latest column for AIER is the first of a two-part series on the indispensability, for the productive use of resources, of market-determined prices. A slice: The reason socialism inevitably wastes resources is rooted in the fact that, under such a regime, the state...

17 Sep The Goal Is Deeper Understanding

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to a college sophomore writing a paper for one of her courses: Ms. S__: Thanks for your e-mail. You ask for my thoughts on the U.S. Women’s Soccer team suing to receive pay equal to that of the U.S. Men’s Soccer team. Alas,...

17 Sep And Secure the Blessings of Liberty

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On this Constitution Day, 2021, I again write about the crucial importance of the Preamble to the proper interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. If this nation is to remain politically intact and economically vibrant, it must concede the importance of that opening sentence and especially...

16 Sep 5 questions for Ed Glaeser on the survival of cities

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By James Pethokoukis and Ed Glaeser Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s major cities faced rising housing prices, congestion, and inequality. But since the outbreak of coronavirus, cities have been hit hard with an economic downturn and rise in violent crime – on top of the...

16 Sep The U.S. Founders’ Inventive Constitutional Brilliance

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This Constitution Day, thank the Founders for stimulating ingenuity by applying “the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.” And while you’re at it, thank an inventor. “The Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by...

16 Sep Blockchain Smart Contracts, Explained

Posted at 22:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Smart Contracts are an important part of the blockchain techonology. In this video, we will explain what do we mean by contracts and how they can be complete and incomplete, and why the blockchain is a fantastic technology to acomplish reduction of transaction costs.LEARN LIBERTY:Your...

15 Sep What Effect Does “Climate Change” Have on Human Life?

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Wealth is our protection against the potential effect of climate change. What effect does it have on human life? This is the only appropriate way to consider the risks from “climate change.” There are two important variables here: (1) the frequency of severe climate events, such as...