Wonder Information Tag

15 Dec Credit Cards | Johan Norberg’s New and Improved

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How did a business fiasco lead to a golden age of financial access and convenience? In this episode of Johan Norberg’s New and Improved, Norberg details how a little piece of plastic on the verge of being outlawed went on to open massive global markets...

15 Dec Have Queries About Bitcoins? Get Answers Here

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Bitcoin uses peer to peer blockchain technology. Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoins in the year of 2009. It is mainly made for the internet. It is online cash and can be used by anyone. Nature of Bitcoin Cryptocurrency is deflationary. Bitcoin along with other cryptocurrencies are...

14 Dec Stuck in Neutral: Trucking And the Pandemic

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On October 25, 2021, about one month before the detection of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 in South Africa, the Biden Administration released an announcement entitled “A Proclamation on Advancing the Safe Resumption of Global Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” More an adjustment of restrictions...

09 Dec Squid Game Says More About Communism Than Capitalism

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The breakout Netflix series contains critiques of a decidedly "anti-capitalist" political and economic system that's haunted the Korean Peninsula.Full text, links, and credits:https://ift.tt/3dyT1dA------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTVLike us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/PrnSKBFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and...

30 Nov Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 99 of the late Christopher Hitchens’s excellent little 2001 tract, Letters to a Young Contrarian: Distrust any speaker who talks confidently about “we,” or speaks in the name of “us.” Distrust yourself if you hear these tones creeping into your...

30 Nov Fact-BLOCKERS

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I’ve reported that Facebook censored me. Now I’ve learned that Facebook also censors respected science writers John Tierney, Michael Shellenberger and Bjorn Lomborg.-------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://ift.tt/2LsSefV--------Facebook, and its so-called "fact-checker," Science Feedback, censored former NYT reporter...

30 Nov Smallpox: The Historical Myths behind Mandatory Vaccines

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Vaccine mandates are not a new invention, and states have long pushed a narrative exaggerating the success of mandates in the past. Original Article: "Smallpox: The Historical Myths behind Mandatory Vaccines" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. Read the Full...

26 Nov How Hayek Can Transform Our Ingratitude into Gratitude

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“Some Americans,” Thomas Sowell wrote, “will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.” “Ingratitude,” psychology professor Robert Emmons observes, in his book Thanks: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, “leads inevitably to a confining, restricting and ‘shrinking’...

21 Nov Why There is a Civic and Moral Duty to Oppose Tyrannical Bureaucracies

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The searing Russian novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is one of the greatest examinations of totalitarianism ever written. Based on his experiences under Stalin, Grossman depicts how humanity withers under tyranny. Grossman’s book is not a dystopian novel, yet few books better teach...

21 Nov What Gibbon Got Wrong in ‘The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’