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21 Apr 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year

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Tomorrow is Earth Day 2021 and marks the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, so it’s time for my annual CD post on the spectacularly wrong predictions that were made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970….. In the May 2000 issue of Reason...

21 Apr J&J Vaccine Derangement Syndrome?

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: Government’s halting of J&J’s vaccine reflects a problem far deeper than the CDC’s and FDA’s seeking guidance from outside ‘experts’ (“Inoculating the Government,” April 21). This far-deeper problem is the obsessive focus on a single risk. For...

21 Apr Go Nuclear

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This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea — those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly...

21 Apr “The Tyranny of Tiny Risks”

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn response to my letter today to the Wall Street Journal, Washington University economist Ian Fillmore sent to me the following e-mail, which I share with his kind permission: Hi Don, Like you, I find the whole blood clot thing incredibly frustrating. But there is...

21 Apr In observance of Earth Day 2021, some wit and wisdom from George Carlin on ‘saving the planet’

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Tomorrow (April 22) is Earth Day and it marks the 51st anniversary of the “Green Holy Day” that started back in 1970. To help celebrate Earth Day 2021, this post features the late stand-up comedian/philosopher George Carlin from around 2007 in the video above titled...

20 Apr Electric cars aren’t the climate-change answer Joe Biden is selling you

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America is going green. Recently, President Joe Biden unveiled plans to accelerate the transition toward electric cars. The move — neatly packaged as the American Jobs Plan — is being sold as a way to “unify and mobilize the country to meet the great challenges of our time: the...

20 Apr Lockdowns and the Natural Order

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The year is 1535 and Saint Thomas More is on trial for high treason for refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of King Henry VIII in an ongoing feud with the Catholic Church. More posed a now-famous question to the jury that roughly goes as follows: “Some...

20 Apr How Crypto Billionaires Will Transform Philanthropy

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If the price of Bitcoin were to reach $200,000, Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong observed recently, half of the world’s billionaires would be crypto billionaires. Even at the lesser valuations that currently prevail, this crypto wealth has vast potential to reshape philanthropy. Expect a...

20 Apr The Sword of Damocles Hangs over Every Property Owner

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Cicero wrote of a king by the name of Damocles. He served in the court of Dionysus, and after acknowledging his envy of Dionysus’s lifestyle, Dionysus challenged him to try taking on the lifestyle for himself. At first, Damocles is taken by the royal lifestyle; however, during...

20 Apr How will crypto wealth transform philanthropy?

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That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: If the price of Bitcoin were to reach $200,000, Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong observed recently, half of the world’s billionaires would be crypto billionaires. Even at the lesser valuations that currently prevail, this crypto...

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