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31 Mar Wars and “Following the Science” are Sure Paths to Tyranny

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In the first press conference of his presidency on March 25, 2021, Joe Biden announced that he had set a target of administering 200 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine before the end of his first 100 days in office. In an earlier statement before...

31 Mar Millions of DoorDash Customers Hit with ‘Regulatory Response Fees’ After New Laws Totally Backfire

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Your wallet may take an extra hit the next time you order dinner via the popular food delivery app DoorDash, courtesy of your helpful local government officials. That is, if you live in St. Louis, Chicago, Seattle, or one of the other 57 localities where...

31 Mar How the “Bourgeois Deal” Enriched the World

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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the Worldby Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art CardenUniversity of Chicago Press, 2020xvii + 227 pages McCloskey and Carden endeavor to explain one of the most striking facts of world history. Since about 1800,...

31 Mar An Age of Patronage-AIER

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Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism, once said that patronage was “the tribute which opulence owes to genius.” If you were wealthy, it was your moral obligation to give back to the community – not merely by improving the lot of...

30 Mar Shays’s Rebellion

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[Chapter 11 of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] Massachusetts suffered particularly from the economic aftermath of the Revolutionary War as its fisheries trade was cut off and its exports to the West Indies were sharply curtailed. Furthermore, the grandiose postwar...

30 Mar It’s Not Journalism; It’s Fear-Mongering

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWhat an outrageously misleading ‘report’ in the New York Times: Editor: Apoorva Mandavilli’s report titled “Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising – especially among younger people” (March 28) is irresponsible and deeply misleading. Florida’s 7-day average of daily new Covid-19 cases is indeed,...

30 Mar What Does the World Need? More Humans

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Global depopulation is the looming existential threat that no one is talking about. Read the Full Article here: >Mercatus Center...

30 Mar Shawn Needham: How Consumers and Entrepreneurs Co-Navigate Value Uncertainty in Healthcare

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Austrian economics provides new insights into value: what it is, how it is created, and who creates it. The insights are summed up by Professors Per Bylund and Mark Packard in our E4B podcast episode #108 (see Mises.org/E4B_108). One of the most vivid images they...

30 Mar Why Millennials’ DIY Approach to Finances Has so Much Upside

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In his bestselling book "Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder," Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains that “abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.” Millennials are discovering this reality. Read the Full Article here: >from FEE...

29 Mar Podcast: Infinite Innovation with The Knowledge Project

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Some subscribers to the old, automated newsletter reported difficultly accessing last week's post, on the history of vaccines. Here is a permanent link if you missed it: https://mattridley.co.uk/8701We also recommend subscribing to the new newsletter: https://mattridley.co.uk/newsletterI went on The Knowledge Project podcast with Shane Parrish...

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