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15 Mar The Woke Award Shows

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Award shows, like the Oscars, are beating themselves up for their history of white supremacy. Future awards will go only to films that meet diversity quotas. "These awards just shouldn't even be seen as legitimate," musician Eric July tells me. "It's supposed to be based...

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15 Mar Semi-annual Time Changes Are a Pointless, Disruptive, and Expensive Annual Ritual

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This Sunday, March 14, we will all take part in a pointless, disruptive, and expensive annual ritual. We (unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, or most other countries in the world) will set our clocks forward one hour and move from...

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15 Mar How I Survived a Year in a Weird and Empty Manhattan

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A year ago, virtually all of the nearly 4 million people who swamp Manhattan below 60th Street each day deserted the central city — except me. I am one of a handful of people — less than 30,000, in a space that would fit six...

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15 Mar Bitcoin Bros Rediscovering Our Monetary Past

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

All eyes on bitcoin, it seems, as the price hits new all-time-highs, its proponents celebrate, and the economists who have long pronounced it dead and useless scratch their head in confusion (any “bubble” pronouncements as of late?) “The discomforting reality for the early idealists,” wrote Izabella...

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15 Mar Non-COVID Death Epidemic of the Future

Posted at 13:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Consider the possibility that science is a process of questions and answers. Not all answers are correct and not all questions are valid. Yet all need to be considered and evaluated separately and carefully. Within that context we broach the subject of this COVID debacle...

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15 Mar The Gradual Return of Good Sense

Posted at 13:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

President Biden made a statement last week that Americans might be able to gather in small groups by July 4, to celebrate Independence Day. One wonders who is protecting him from the reality: most of the country is almost entirely back to normal.  Outside of California...

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14 Mar Leave the Choice of Restrictions to the Market

Posted at 21:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Coffee shops in Knoxville, Tennessee, are a microcosm of the world’s reaction to Covid-19. A Starbucks here features a drive-through stacked several cars deep, hour after hour. Most of the people waiting patiently in their cars wear masks. Inside, the shop is nearly deserted. As...

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13 Mar Moral Courage and the Austrian School

Posted at 21:19h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

When economic crises hit, most pundits and intellectuals never see it coming. That is because they have never learned the lesson that Bastiat sought to teach, namely that we need to look beneath the surface, to the unseen dimensions of human action, in order to...

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13 Mar Beware the Populist Feedback Loop

Posted at 13:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Scott Lincicome Dear Capitolisters, , An increasingly common tactic on the populist right is to label skeptics of new government programs (protectionism, subsidies, etc.) “free market fundamentalists” who dogmatically oppose any and all government regulation and believe in the perfection of free markets (or whatever). The ploy is...

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13 Mar Some Covid Links

Posted at 13:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetPhil Magness and Jack Nicastro decry the brutalization – sparked by Covid Derangement Syndrome – of college students. Here’s their opening: On March 10, 2020 at 7:16 p.m. the University of Dayton tweeted that all dormitories on campus would be closed less than 24...

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