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06 Apr The Feds Are Pushing Pension Funds toward “Socially Responsible Investing”

Posted at 11:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Enivronmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, although rooted in an older concept known as “socially responsible investing,” has been more and more on the rise in recent years. Predictably, the Biden administration has paved the way for the Department of Labor (DOL) to pivot from...

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06 Apr China’s Digital Currency Has Nothing to do with Bitcoin

Posted at 11:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

China’s digital currency has left the testing stage and is set for a full rollout to the entire country and region. For some reason, the major media stories on the topic circle around the issue of Bitcoin, invented in 2009 as an alternative to government...

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06 Apr If You Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?

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Vaccines have long been held the mainstay against maladies that previously in history have destroyed large swaths of the population. Polio, Mumps-Measles and Rubella (MMR), Chicken Pox and Pertussis come to mind among others. Vaccines have proven efficacy against certain transmissible infectious diseases. The majority...

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06 Apr Will the Last High Earner to Leave New York Please Turn Out the Lights

Posted at 11:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Back on Jan. 19, Governor Cuomo presented an Executive Budget calling for a temporary $1.5 billion personal income tax increase targeted at New York’s highest earners.The left-leaning Democratic supermajorities in the state Assembly and Senate countered with proposals for an eye-popping array of $7 billion in tax...

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06 Apr Peter Boettke and Stefanie Haeffele on Tensions in Political Economy

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In this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Peter Boettke and Stefanie Haeffele share a conversation on the current trilogy of books in the Hayek Program's "Tensions in Political Economy" book series, The pair cover a number of topics, including what was the driving idea...

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06 Apr Dangerous Monetary Manipulations and Fiscal Follies

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Back in the 1960s, Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) served as the Republican Party minority leader in the U.S. Senate. One of his famous lines about federal government spending was, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” Those days are...

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06 Apr Peter Klein: When Policy-Makers Discover Benefits of Entrepreneurship, They Can’t Resist Intervening

Posted at 11:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Innovative entrepreneurship is the segment of the entrepreneurial economy that is especially highly focused on innovation via new products and services. Within innovative entrepreneurship there is an even brighter spotlight on NTBF — new technology-based firms that are cutting edge, scalable, and fast-growing. They represent...

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05 Apr Stop Greenwashing Socialism

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According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans aged 18-39 view socialism favorably. Nothing captures this “socialist” zeitgeist better than the narrative surrounding climate change, so vociferously promulgated by youth movements around the Western world. When Senator Ed Markey, one of...

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05 Apr Susanna M. Salter: The First Woman Mayor

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On this date—April 4—in 1887, a woman was elected mayor of a city for the very first time and under the strangest of circumstances. Until the polls opened on election day, she had no idea she was even on the ballot. The city was Argonia, Kansas...

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05 Apr Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’

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One year after Americans were ordered to close down society for “two weeks to flatten the curve,” Bloomberg columnist Andreas Kluth warned, “We Must Start Planning for a Permanent Pandemic.” Because new variants of SARS-COV-2 are impervious to existing vaccines, says Kluth, and pharmaceutical companies will...

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