Wonder Information Tag

13 Jun Flight Times May Soon Be Cut in Half—Thanks to Capitalism

Posted at 20:11h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Denver-based startup Boom Supersonic has been developing a passenger jet that will fly faster than the speed of sound, and United Airlines recently announced a deal to buy fifteen of them, with an option to buy thirty-five more if safety tests go as planned. “But what...

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13 Jun Why America’s Oligarchs Are Moving Left

Posted at 20:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

These days it’s not your typical latte-sipping millennials who are going woke. Taking a stroll around America’s largest metro areas will have one believe social justice is the latest fad that’s sweeping across corporate boardrooms. Much has been written about woke capital—businesses’ recent pivot to...

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13 Jun The Malthusian Fallacy Paul Krugman Just Fell For

Posted at 20:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report released by the US Census Bureau in April. Population was up by 7.4 percent over the previous decade, the slowest growth rate the US has...

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13 Jun Salman Rushdie Strikes Again

Posted at 20:07h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In his new essay collection ‘Languages of Truth,” Salman Rushdie offers studied insults and takes few risks. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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13 Jun Where Economics and Management Studies Overlap: A Brief Review of Austrian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Organization

Posted at 20:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Austrian Perspectives on Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Organization is a part of the Cambridge “Elements” Series, which joins series like the Routledge Focus and Oxford University Press “Very Short Introductions” in publishing short, focused surveys of a very specific topic in something that fits in the...

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13 Jun The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America’s Utopian Experiments in Communal Living

Posted at 20:05h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This is an article about a famous utopian community that flopped. But for context, let me first relate a story from my younger days. More than half a century ago, I had a friend in junior high school I could never figure out or drum much...

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12 Jun The Centrality of Exchange

Posted at 00:05h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Most government interventions consist in forbidding adult individuals (or their voluntary associations) to freely engage in acts of exchange: securities laws, antitrust laws, minimum-wage laws, maximum prices (like in “price gouging” laws, for example), laws and regulations mandating or banning discrimination, legal privileges for trade...

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12 Jun Hayek’s Tiger

Posted at 00:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On the menu today: inflation, corporatism, risk and space flight, billionaires and value creation. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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12 Jun Bureaucracy as Constituency

Posted at 00:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Anyone who has taken a civics class knows the Framers created a federal government with three co-equal branches. James Madison in Federalist 51 stressed that the ambitions of some could be made to counteract the ambitions of others. Why? Because the same people who had...

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12 Jun 3 Ways Rising Price Inflation Hurts Everyday Americans

Posted at 00:04h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Proponents of big-government spending and money-printing tried to downplay April data showing surging consumer prices as just a temporary adjustment. But the new data for May are out now, and they show price inflation shooting up even higher. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures released...

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