Daily Economy
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The Road to Serfdom…via Credit Markets
The role of bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies more broadly, in a negative interest rate world (as unlikely as that truly is), is twofold.
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NCAA Must Evolve, or Go Extinct
California’s recent Fair Pay for Play bill isn’t the best way of reforming college sports, but it does force the NCAA to make a stark choice: evolve or go extinct. Either way, it’s time for change.
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The Joker and the Ideology of Destructionism
The Joker is not just one man, not just a crazy person, but the instantiation of the insane and morbid dangers associated with persistent personal failure backed by a conviction that when there is a fundamental conflict between a vision and reality, it can only be solved by the creation of chaos and suffering.
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A Country Is Not a Private Club
Private clubs are voluntary associations. Opting out of citizenship altogether is not a realistic option.
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Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans
Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.
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Gresham’s Law Is Not the Reason for the Corruption of Democracy
Gresham’s Law is not the reason why the malicious field of politics attracts particularly awful people.
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A Weak September Jobs Report Raises Concern
U.S. payrolls added 136,000 jobs in September. The report raises concerns that escalating trade wars and inconsistent, incoherent policies are threatening the economic expansion.
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The Very Idea of Economic Policy Is Itself Dangerous
You do not want the government to have an economic policy, even a free market one: you should want it to let people be.
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More Women Are Launching Businesses – Don’t Let Government Ruin It
It is only when we remove obstacles that we give all women, especially those in the low-income bracket, a real shot at succeeding.
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The Market Doesn’t Care About Your Technological Superiority
The greatest contribution that bitcoin might be that it spurred incumbent actors to improve and an entire new industry to develop, not that it swept away the entire monetary and financial system as we know it.
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The Road to Serfdom…via Credit Markets
The role of bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies more broadly, in a negative interest rate world (as unlikely as that truly is), is twofold.
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•
NCAA Must Evolve, or Go Extinct
California’s recent Fair Pay for Play bill isn’t the best way of reforming college sports, but it does force the NCAA to make a stark choice: evolve or go extinct. Either way, it’s time for change.
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•
The Joker and the Ideology of Destructionism
The Joker is not just one man, not just a crazy person, but the instantiation of the insane and morbid dangers associated with persistent personal failure backed by a conviction that when there is a fundamental conflict between a vision and reality, it can only be solved by the creation of chaos and suffering.
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•
A Country Is Not a Private Club
Private clubs are voluntary associations. Opting out of citizenship altogether is not a realistic option.
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•
Emergent Genius: The Case of Bill Evans
Great musical performance consists of at once learning all things and then forgetting all things to make something new. This is what Bill Evans did.
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•
Gresham’s Law Is Not the Reason for the Corruption of Democracy
Gresham’s Law is not the reason why the malicious field of politics attracts particularly awful people.
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•
A Weak September Jobs Report Raises Concern
U.S. payrolls added 136,000 jobs in September. The report raises concerns that escalating trade wars and inconsistent, incoherent policies are threatening the economic expansion.
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•
The Very Idea of Economic Policy Is Itself Dangerous
You do not want the government to have an economic policy, even a free market one: you should want it to let people be.
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•
More Women Are Launching Businesses – Don’t Let Government Ruin It
It is only when we remove obstacles that we give all women, especially those in the low-income bracket, a real shot at succeeding.
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•
The Market Doesn’t Care About Your Technological Superiority
The greatest contribution that bitcoin might be that it spurred incumbent actors to improve and an entire new industry to develop, not that it swept away the entire monetary and financial system as we know it.