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28 Apr Liberty Winning?

Posted at 21:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Do I live in an alternate universe? The media tell me my side is winning. Salon claims, “We all live in Kochland, the Koch brothers’ libertarian utopia.” Tucker Carlson says, “Our leadership class remains resolutely libertarian.” What? Who? Not President Biden. Biden already spent $1.9 trillion on COVID-19 “recovery” mostly...

28 Apr What in the World Are You Teaching Kids?

Posted at 21:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A spectre is haunting the Western world – the spectre of a grossly mistaken understanding of the world. British kids have nightmares about the climate. Half of French respondents think it likely that climate change will cause “the extinction of the human race.” American teachers coddle...

28 Apr Trevor Lawrence Is Taking His Entire Signing Bonus in Cryptocurrencies. Here’s Why

Posted at 16:56h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Trevor Lawrence just lit another fire under cryptocurrencies. The former Clemson University standout quarterback, who is expected to be nabbed with the first overall pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars Thursday night during the NFL draft in Cleveland, announced on Monday he was diving into the cryptocurrencies...

28 Apr Moritz J. Bonn: A Classical Liberal Voice in a Collectivist World

Posted at 16:56h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Ninety years ago, the United States and most of the rest of the Western industrial world was in the throes of the Great Depression. Usually demarcated as having begun with the U.S. stock market crash of October 1929, the Depression is most often dated as...

28 Apr Tocqueville’s Gumptious American

Posted at 16:55h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In 1831 the great Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville visited America and in 1835 published the first volume of Democracy in America. Tocqueville offered a wonderful and memorable characterization of Americans in commercial life. The passage is worth reading and appears below; after it I remark...

28 Apr The Everything Bubble and What it Means for Your Money

Posted at 16:55h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In the aftermath of the Black Plague which swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353, wiping out between 30 and 60% of the population, the European economy changed dramatically. Source: Jeremy Norman – HistoryofInformation.com The Black Plague had a lasting socioeconomic impact; for example, towns and cities...

28 Apr Chart of the day: For every 100 young women in October 2020….

Posted at 16:45h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Yesterday the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual report on “College Enrollment and Work Activity of Recent High School and College Graduates – 2020” based on data as of October 2020. Here’s a description of the BLS data used for the report: Information on school...

28 Apr Some Non-Covid Links

Posted at 09:17h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the New York Times, Peter Suderman of Reason is rightly critical of the lameness of the GOP’s opposition to Biden’s rampaging statism. A slice: And this points to the deeper problem: The Republican Party, at the very least, lacks a coherent sense...

28 Apr Consumers Who Want Privacy Are Finally Getting Their Way

Posted at 09:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I just updated my iPhone with a new feature that is long overdue. I’m thrilled to say that anyone who has downloaded the update is now in a position to control what personal information is used and passed on by various applications on the smartphone. Apple...

27 Apr Liberty Winning?

Posted at 12:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Thanks to property rights and free markets, humanity has achieved prosperity and freedom that our ancestors hardly dreamed about.----To make sure you receive the weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://ift.tt/37hRbtg----For most of history, kings and tyrants ruled. They took and kept slaves,...