Daily Economy
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Taylor Swift: Heroine for Property Rights
Swift has used her celebrity and art to stand up to bullies, whether they be corporations or colleagues in the music industry. She’s also singing her way to the bank.
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Anne of Green Gables Shows that Crypto Scams Are Nothing New
That an asset or innovation is subject to scamery, pushed by grifters, invested in by the deluded and avaricious, does not mean it is not a good idea. You can observe the fallacy with any new discovery that has ever appeared in the history of humankind.
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Directionalism vs. Destinationism
We can often make progress by pressing for improvement, rather than holding out for perfection. Sometimes, just the right kind of nothing is good enough.
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The Antidote to Parking Oversupply
Reforming parking policy is an important local issue. Current politics encourages a general oversupply of parking and with it high parking costs per household as it sits empty.
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Gains in Industrial Production Support a Positive Outlook
Industrial production jumped 0.6 percent in June on broad-based gains. Along with other solid economic data and very strong readings from the AIER leading indicators index, the outlook for continued economic expansion remains favorable.
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How Technology Bolsters Your Right to Work, Choose, and Earn
The information economy has liberated those who do the work from servile dependency on any single capital-controlling employer. We didn’t need Karl Marx to invent a new political order to do that; we just needed a better software infrastructure.
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Socialism, Like Dracula, Rises Again From the Grave
How very appealing was the socialist idea in the late 19th and early (pre-WWI) 20th centuries! All the burdens of life and everyday work, all the seemingly unjust inequalities of material wealth observable in society, and all the uncertainties of health care and old age would be lifted from the weary shoulders of the common…
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How Not to Regulate Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, are increasingly part of our urban landscapes. The number of drones employed for commercial use in the United States will surpass 420,000 in 2021, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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National Defense Is Not an Exception to the Case for Free Trade
The very best system of national defense is one that reduces the prospect of war. It is one that diminishes the need to actually send into battle war machines and manpower. So anyone sincerely committed to a program of using trade policy as a means of strengthening national defense supports as an indispensable cornerstone of that…
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Should You Quit Your Job?
If we freed the market, tight labor markets would be the norm. The beautiful and empowering act of quitting (and moving on to something better) would be an expected feature of professional life.
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Taylor Swift: Heroine for Property Rights
Swift has used her celebrity and art to stand up to bullies, whether they be corporations or colleagues in the music industry. She’s also singing her way to the bank.
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•
Anne of Green Gables Shows that Crypto Scams Are Nothing New
That an asset or innovation is subject to scamery, pushed by grifters, invested in by the deluded and avaricious, does not mean it is not a good idea. You can observe the fallacy with any new discovery that has ever appeared in the history of humankind.
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•
Directionalism vs. Destinationism
We can often make progress by pressing for improvement, rather than holding out for perfection. Sometimes, just the right kind of nothing is good enough.
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•
The Antidote to Parking Oversupply
Reforming parking policy is an important local issue. Current politics encourages a general oversupply of parking and with it high parking costs per household as it sits empty.
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•
Gains in Industrial Production Support a Positive Outlook
Industrial production jumped 0.6 percent in June on broad-based gains. Along with other solid economic data and very strong readings from the AIER leading indicators index, the outlook for continued economic expansion remains favorable.
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•
How Technology Bolsters Your Right to Work, Choose, and Earn
The information economy has liberated those who do the work from servile dependency on any single capital-controlling employer. We didn’t need Karl Marx to invent a new political order to do that; we just needed a better software infrastructure.
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•
Socialism, Like Dracula, Rises Again From the Grave
How very appealing was the socialist idea in the late 19th and early (pre-WWI) 20th centuries! All the burdens of life and everyday work, all the seemingly unjust inequalities of material wealth observable in society, and all the uncertainties of health care and old age would be lifted from the weary shoulders of the common…
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•
How Not to Regulate Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, are increasingly part of our urban landscapes. The number of drones employed for commercial use in the United States will surpass 420,000 in 2021, according to the US Federal Aviation Administration.
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•
National Defense Is Not an Exception to the Case for Free Trade
The very best system of national defense is one that reduces the prospect of war. It is one that diminishes the need to actually send into battle war machines and manpower. So anyone sincerely committed to a program of using trade policy as a means of strengthening national defense supports as an indispensable cornerstone of that…
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Should You Quit Your Job?
If we freed the market, tight labor markets would be the norm. The beautiful and empowering act of quitting (and moving on to something better) would be an expected feature of professional life.