Daily Economy News
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Brazil Proves Uber Too Popular for Prohibition
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi warned the Brazilian government that regulations would negatively affect 500,000 drivers and 17 million passengers who use the app.
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Who Aided Flint When the Chips Were Down?
In times of natural disasters and other crises, most think first to turn to their governments for help, but in this situation, Flint was ignored by local, state, and national levels of government and relied heavily on the private sector to reverse the damage.
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Economic Growth Defies Tax Foundation Ranking
There is no macroeconomic data to show that a “good” business-tax index score is associated with a strong state economy. On the contrary, a review of state GDP data indicates that the opposite might actually be true.
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No, Blockchain is Not a “Miracle Cure” for the Opioid Epidemic
Blockchain technology could make the supply chain for prescription narcotics more secure, but it won’t address the overall problem.
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John Dewey’s Ideas Are Alive at AIER’s Education Programs
AIER’s founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, was an admirer of John Dewey’s ideas on education. And now Dewey’s ideas about the functions a teacher performs in the classroom are alive within AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative program.
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A Libertarian Oasis in a Statist World
Higgs’s latest book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy, is a greatest hits of his work over the past decade or so, published by the Independent Institute of Oakland, California. Naturally I couldn’t help myself when I saw it as a new arrival at the Ludwig von Mises Library at Francisco…
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Sorry, Bernie Bros, “Free” College Will Cost You
American universities are the best in the world in large part due to the presence of many that behave more like businesses that offer services. That is in contrast to institutions whose services are treated as “social rights” with prohibitions on profits.
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Why Bastiat?
AIER has added the Bastiat Society Program to expand the reach of AIER’s mission. Through the program’s well-established chapter network of business leaders, AIER will be coordinating over 140 chapter events in 2018; panel discussions, lectures, conferences and debates that will focus on free markets and liberty.
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How Scott Pruitt Became the Great Satan, Destroyer of Clean Energy
The Trump administration is now moving to dismantle the whole Clean Power Plan boondoggle, and environmentalist crusaders are not happy. We hear every day that this is “genocide,” “raping the planet,” and the whole predictable litany of apocalyptic quasi-religious fear-mongering.
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“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.
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Brazil Proves Uber Too Popular for Prohibition
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi warned the Brazilian government that regulations would negatively affect 500,000 drivers and 17 million passengers who use the app.
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Who Aided Flint When the Chips Were Down?
In times of natural disasters and other crises, most think first to turn to their governments for help, but in this situation, Flint was ignored by local, state, and national levels of government and relied heavily on the private sector to reverse the damage.
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Economic Growth Defies Tax Foundation Ranking
There is no macroeconomic data to show that a “good” business-tax index score is associated with a strong state economy. On the contrary, a review of state GDP data indicates that the opposite might actually be true.
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No, Blockchain is Not a “Miracle Cure” for the Opioid Epidemic
Blockchain technology could make the supply chain for prescription narcotics more secure, but it won’t address the overall problem.
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John Dewey’s Ideas Are Alive at AIER’s Education Programs
AIER’s founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, was an admirer of John Dewey’s ideas on education. And now Dewey’s ideas about the functions a teacher performs in the classroom are alive within AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Initiative program.
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A Libertarian Oasis in a Statist World
Higgs’s latest book, Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy, is a greatest hits of his work over the past decade or so, published by the Independent Institute of Oakland, California. Naturally I couldn’t help myself when I saw it as a new arrival at the Ludwig von Mises Library at Francisco…
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Sorry, Bernie Bros, “Free” College Will Cost You
American universities are the best in the world in large part due to the presence of many that behave more like businesses that offer services. That is in contrast to institutions whose services are treated as “social rights” with prohibitions on profits.
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Why Bastiat?
AIER has added the Bastiat Society Program to expand the reach of AIER’s mission. Through the program’s well-established chapter network of business leaders, AIER will be coordinating over 140 chapter events in 2018; panel discussions, lectures, conferences and debates that will focus on free markets and liberty.
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•
How Scott Pruitt Became the Great Satan, Destroyer of Clean Energy
The Trump administration is now moving to dismantle the whole Clean Power Plan boondoggle, and environmentalist crusaders are not happy. We hear every day that this is “genocide,” “raping the planet,” and the whole predictable litany of apocalyptic quasi-religious fear-mongering.
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“Cosmic Seigniorage” Underscores Scarcity of Gold
Creating gold requires an excedingly rare event and unfathomable amounts of energy.