Author: one80Admin

05 Jul An As-Yet-Undelivered College Graduation Speech

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn my latest column for AIER, I share a draft of a speech that I would give to college graduates if ever invited to give a graduation address. A slice: Pay close attention to your impartial spectator. Note that this advice is quite different from...

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02 Jul The Deeply Flawed Studies Behind the Eviction Moratoriums

Posted at 07:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.For full text, links, and more, go to: https://ift.tt/3jw5RO3------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the...

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02 Jul Put the Independence Back in Independence Day

Posted at 07:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The American Revolution remains unique in human history: a revolution--and a nation--founded on a moral principle, the principle of individual rights. America’s cities and towns will soon fill with parades, fireworks, and barbecues. They will be celebrating the Fourth of July, the [246th] birthday of...

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02 Jul July Fourth Celebrates America’s and the West’s Core Values

Posted at 07:32h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Reason, Rights, and Science Are What Made America Great A version of this article was first published in 1999. Capitalism Magazine is republishing it again because its message still remains relevant today.Why should we celebrate the Fourth of July? Because America — as the greatest...

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02 Jul Toward the Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (Part 1 of 10)

Posted at 07:32h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This article is excerpted from chapter 20 “Toward The Establishment of Laissez-Faire Capitalism” from George Reisman’s Capitalism: A Treatise On Economics (1996).The principles and theories presented my book Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics (1996) call for a society of laissez-faire capitalism. (For the sake of...

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02 Jul I Fear That The Sustained And Unreasonable Attacks on White People in America May Become Cyclical And Spiral Out of Control

Posted at 07:21h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Whites are being assaulted on the streets because of their skin color and black activists are trying to eradicate history, as their demands to ‘rehabilitate’ the National Archives from its ‘whiteness’ demonstrate. A trip to Washington, DC would not be complete without a visit to the...

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01 Jul How do you ask good questions?

Posted at 07:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Ryan writes to me: Consuming the different variety of media in which you publish ideas, I’ve noticed that you pose very high quality questions. For me, high quality questions have a Heideggerian quality insofar as they open a space for exploration, i.e. a concept, category, path...

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01 Jul A.I. Is the Best Film of the 21st Century

Posted at 07:55h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Spielberg’s prescient epic of faith remains miraculous. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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01 Jul Capitalism’s Long-Term Incentives

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

From a Wall Street Journal news article about how some new-car dealers are selling cars for prices significantly higher than the manufacturer's suggested retail price: Some dealers say they avoid asking for more than the sticker price because it can be a Read the Full Article...

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01 Jul Is Inflation Below the Fed’s Target? Yes and No.

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Economists from both the political left and right are worried about inflation. The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 5.0 percent over the past 12 months. This is the highest rate of inflation...

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