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07 Apr Jeff Bezos Just Endorsed Corporate Tax Hikes. Here’s Why Amazon’s Support Should Be a Giant Red Flag

Posted at 18:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Biden administration and some (but not all) of their Democratic allies in Congress want to raise the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. They say this would help the working class and hurt Big Business, finally making corporations “pay their fair share.” But if...

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07 Apr A Comment on One of Tyler Cowen’s Claims at EconTalk

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetMy dear friend, co-founder of Cafe Hayek, and former colleague Russ Roberts is (as many of you know) founder and host of the remarkable podcast “EconTalk.” Russ’s latest guest is my esteemed colleague Tyler Cowen. The topic is Covid-19 and the response to...

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07 Apr Fed Transparency Won’t Get Us out of the Mess the Fed Created

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In an interview with National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” program on Thursday, March 25, 2021, Fed chair Jerome Powell said that even with the economy rebounding faster than expected, any change in monetary policy would happen “very, very gradually over time and with great transparency....

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07 Apr A letter to Yellen

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Secretary of the Treasury, and ex Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently hosted an important meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.  This is really the highest level body overseeing financial regulation in the US. It matters. Her remarks start smoothly but critically, as one expects...

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07 Apr untitled

Posted at 09:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

April 7, 2021The tyranny of the "enlightened" expertsfromMises:  In a country where the traditional definition of virtue has “evolved” and the search for metaphysical truth has largely been sidelined, millions of Americans seem to believe that there is no higher truth than the Science and that...

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07 Apr Why Ireland Has the Most Miserable Lockdown in the Western World

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What the nation’s government is doing to its people in the name of public health is cruel — and apparently ineffective. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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07 Apr Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire (full) | Conversations with Tyler

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Before he was California Poet Laureate or leading the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia marketed Jell-O. Possessing both a Stanford MBA and a Harvard MA, he combined his creativity and facility with numbers to climb the corporate ladder at General Foods to the...

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07 Apr The Brooklyn Variant of the Coronavirus: Fuggedaboutit

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We met many years ago in Brooklyn, so it is not surprising that we both tested positive for the Brooklyn variant of the coronavirus, which causes us to say fuggedaboutit. Since March 2020, infectious disease experts, the media (especially, CNN), and politicians have established a...

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06 Apr California’s Largest Teachers Union Wins Subsidized Child Care Ahead of Reopening

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The United Teachers of Los Angeles, California’s largest teachers union, raised eyebrows last summer when it released a report detailing its demanded conditions for a safe reopening of schools. This document went far beyond requesting social distancing plans and personal protective equipment to an agenda...

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06 Apr Democratic Florida Officials Explain How 60 Minutes Twisted DeSantis-Publix Story

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The media ‘are hellbent on dividing us for cheap views and clicks. 60 Minutes should be ashamed,’ the Democratic mayor of Palm Beach told NR. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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