Summer Rerun: Journey Into a Libertarian Future: Part I –The Vision
An examination of libertarian thinking, based on the work of one of its strong-form proponents, Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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‘Morality Pills’ May Be the US’s Best Shot at Ending the Coronavirus Pandemic, According to One Ethicist
An ethicist seriously suggests forced medication to increase cooperation with pandemic mask-wearing.
Read more...The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Zip Code Map of Inequality
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on lower-income communities was decades in the making.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/13/2020
Covid in the US regions ~ California re-opening ~ Biden announces Harris (video) ~ Harris and identity politics ~ Trump ad drops ~ QAnon and its competitors ~ Morse v. College Democrats ~ Unemployment, trade, rail ~ Air and lead pollution ~ r/unemployment ~ Library community gardens
Read more...The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
How the Bakken oil boom, particularly hasty development and transport by rail, was destined to create an environmental hangover…..and no one bothered to prevent it.
Read more...House Democrats Introduce Urgent Bill to End ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ of Postal Service by Postmaster General
Democrats wake up awfully late in the game to the importance of protecting the Post Office from looting, um, privatizing. Are they too late?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/12/2020
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Wolf Richter: No, Americans Aren’t Suddenly Flying Again, Despite What the Media Said Today to Boost Stocks of Airlines and Boeing
Americans are eschewing flying in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to carnage in the airlines sector.
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“Savings Glut” Fables and International Trade Theory: An Autopsy
Debunking Bernanke’s pet excuse for the global financial crisis, the savings glut hypothesis, which of course exculpates the Fed.
Read more...Re-Localizing Industry, One Thing at a Time
Even Covid-19 can have a silver lining: industry supply chain breakage and relocalization initiatives are bringing some manufacturing back to the US.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/11/2020
Today’s Water Cooler
Read more...Trump EPA Poised to Weaken Obama Methane Rule, Despite Possibility of Later CRA Overturn
Trump EPA to weaken Obama methane rule, acceding to fossial fuel pressure, despite the Congressional Review Act, which may kick in aft Nov.
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The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
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