Wonder Information Tag

06 Apr

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Innovative entrepreneurship is the segment of the entrepreneurial economy that is especially highly focused on innovation via new products and services. Within innovative entrepreneurship there is an even brighter spotlight on NTBF — new technology-based firms that are cutting edge, scalable, and fast-growing. They represent...

05 Apr

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The great crash of 2008 may feel like a strikingly modern phenomenon, caused by bafflingly sophisticated derivatives like credit default swaps, but it actually bears striking similarities to Ancient Rome’s financial crisis of 33 AD.Our Roman forebears also faced a profound economic shock as a...

05 Apr

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According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans aged 18-39 view socialism favorably. Nothing captures this “socialist” zeitgeist better than the narrative surrounding climate change, so vociferously promulgated by youth movements around the Western world. When Senator Ed Markey, one of...

05 Apr

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Blogger, author, podcaster, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University discusses the lessons learned from the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appearing roughly one year after his first conversation on the pandemic, Cowen revisits the predictions he made then and what he has learned for the next...

05 Apr

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn my most-recent column for AIER I speculate – I emphasize, speculate – about why so many prominent voices for liberty are remaining silent amidst the awful assault on liberty now underway by the Covidocracy. A slice: In the Spring of 2020 the mainstream...