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21 Apr Go Nuclear

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This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea — those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly...

21 Apr “The Tyranny of Tiny Risks”

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn response to my letter today to the Wall Street Journal, Washington University economist Ian Fillmore sent to me the following e-mail, which I share with his kind permission: Hi Don, Like you, I find the whole blood clot thing incredibly frustrating. But there is...

21 Apr In observance of Earth Day 2021, some wit and wisdom from George Carlin on ‘saving the planet’

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Tomorrow (April 22) is Earth Day and it marks the 51st anniversary of the “Green Holy Day” that started back in 1970. To help celebrate Earth Day 2021, this post features the late stand-up comedian/philosopher George Carlin from around 2007 in the video above titled...

20 Apr Electric cars aren’t the climate-change answer Joe Biden is selling you

Posted at 14:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

America is going green. Recently, President Joe Biden unveiled plans to accelerate the transition toward electric cars. The move — neatly packaged as the American Jobs Plan — is being sold as a way to “unify and mobilize the country to meet the great challenges of our time: the...

20 Apr Lockdowns and the Natural Order

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The year is 1535 and Saint Thomas More is on trial for high treason for refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of King Henry VIII in an ongoing feud with the Catholic Church. More posed a now-famous question to the jury that roughly goes as follows: “Some...

20 Apr How Crypto Billionaires Will Transform Philanthropy

Posted at 14:11h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If the price of Bitcoin were to reach $200,000, Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong observed recently, half of the world’s billionaires would be crypto billionaires. Even at the lesser valuations that currently prevail, this crypto wealth has vast potential to reshape philanthropy. Expect a...

20 Apr The Sword of Damocles Hangs over Every Property Owner

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Cicero wrote of a king by the name of Damocles. He served in the court of Dionysus, and after acknowledging his envy of Dionysus’s lifestyle, Dionysus challenged him to try taking on the lifestyle for himself. At first, Damocles is taken by the royal lifestyle; however, during...

20 Apr How will crypto wealth transform philanthropy?

Posted at 14:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: If the price of Bitcoin were to reach $200,000, Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong observed recently, half of the world’s billionaires would be crypto billionaires. Even at the lesser valuations that currently prevail, this crypto...

19 Apr Mark Rank on Poverty and Poorly Understood

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Sociologist and author Mark Rank talks about his book, Poorly Understood, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rank looks at a wide variety of aspects of poverty. He argues that many widely-held views on poverty are inaccurate, and in particular he argues that most Americans will be poor...

19 Apr Some Non-Covid Links

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetAndrew Gutmann explains – in this brilliant letter shared by Bari Weiss – why he’s pulling his daughter from one of New York City’s elite private schools. A slice: I object to a definition of systemic racism, apparently supported by Brearley, that any educational,...