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10 Jun How the Federalists Stacked the Deck to Win Ratification

Posted at 23:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

[This passage is excerpted from Murray N. Rothbard's Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] The Federalists shrewdly decided to strike hard and swift and drive the Constitution rapidly through the states. The Federalist leaders were a small and cohesive group concentrated in the cities of...

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10 Jun Facebook “Silences” Intellectual Debate On Climate Issues

Posted at 23:26h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Whom does Facebook trust to censor? A Ph.D. graduate from France. Really. The Frenchman, Emmanuel Vincent, started a group he calls “Climate Feedback.” It does “a new kind of fact-checking.” It sure is new. And wrong. I released a video in which some climate scientists argue that climate change is not a “crisis.”...

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10 Jun The Doubling of Life Expectancy Is the Greatest Achievement in 100 Years

Posted at 23:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Science writer Steven Johnson, author of the new book Extra Life, on vaccines, medical breakthroughs, and life after Covid.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian...

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10 Jun Seven Deadly Economic Sins: A Review

Posted at 23:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“But it is not the popular movement, but the travelling of the minds of men who sit in the seat of Adam Smith that is really serious and worthy of attention.” ~ Lord Acton, Letter of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone It is perhaps unusual to...

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10 Jun How to Empower African Entrepreneurs?

Posted at 23:13h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2dUx6wgJOIN our PATREON page and help us explore the ideas of a free society. You will get access to exclusive videos, polls, Q&A's, behind-the-scenes, Learn Liberty merch and so much more. Sign up on https://ift.tt/3iVMQk8LEARN MORE: In this chapter of the "Liberty in Africa"...

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10 Jun With Capitalism, Cooperation Is Just as Important as Competition

Posted at 23:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

It has often been asserted that we should cooperate rather than compete in society. For instance, FDR said, “Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins...

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10 Jun There are no Solutions, only Trade-offs.

Posted at 23:08h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

What is the outlook for black Americans today- is the black experience glass half full or half empty? Is racial discrimination the root of all problems in Black America? In this episode, EconTalk host Russ Roberts welcomes the Wall Street Journal‘s Jason Riley, who argues...

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09 Jun The Super-Rich Are Not Who You Think They Are!

Posted at 20:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The super-rich attract considerable scorn across the political spectrum. This scorn has been the motivating factor behind the calls of certain politicians for hiking tax rates. When one listens to those politicians, the super-rich are depicted as rich aristocratic families enjoying phenomenal amounts of leisure...

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09 Jun The Market as a Social Space, and What Happens When The Firms that Occupy That Space Disappear Due to Economic Disruption

Posted at 20:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

|Peter Boettke| Virgil Storr is one of the most perceptive and intellectually challenging social scientists I know.  He also writes with grace and eloquence, but leave that aside at the moment.  He has pushed an argument for many years now that not only is the atomistic...

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09 Jun Crypto Finally Has a Reason to Exist

Posted at 20:00h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I have news from the world of cryptocurrency: After many years of doubt and uncertainty, a killer app has finally been found. That’s why crypto prices, in spite of numerous plunges, have remained much higher than many skeptics expected.The core use case for crypto is...

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