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The Stories We Tell Each Other Are A Far Better Forecast Of Future Economic Events Than Economists’ Models And Equations.

February 11, 2020

These stories, says Shiller, shape policy. Allan Sproul, the recently retired president of the Fed at that time, lamented that the “Federal Reserve System finds itself in the position of having to validate public folly and private greed by supporting increased costs and prices”.

Individualism Offers New Solutions To Hitherto Intractable Problems, Including Homelessness.

February 10, 2020

Think of this type of local knowledge and interaction as generating countless small moments of accountability instead of a blanket rule. Clients aren’t being offered unlimited help; they’re people helped by other people who can react both socially and with actual aid in real-time.

Economists Can’t Forecast The Future, But They Enjoy Pretending When It Helps Them Trash Opposing Views.

February 9, 2020

Indeed, the complexity of the coming changes in the legal, political, and international landscape is such that any responsible economist should admit that he or she doesn't know what's going to happen.

Are Psychopaths Running The World? Or The Company You Work For? Here’s A Handy Checklist.

February 7, 2020

Most research has pointed towards the understanding that psychopaths are born, not made and therefore cannot be cured. By attempting to heal or help a psychopath, you might actually be strengthening their cunning abilities, as they will find a way to manipulate you

A Thoughtless Immigration Policy Leads To A Society That No Longer Believes In Its Own Traditional Values.

February 6, 2020

Flooding western democracies with non-western people has created societies without social capital; societies that share no enduring bonds other than the quest to extract as much power and possessions possible from the political process.

Poetic Justice Warrior John Bogle Mines Economic Value in Markets and Reputational Value in Minds

February 5, 2020

As a unit of account, money is why the price mechanism is essential to efficient markets. As a medium of exchange, its how the most people are able to experience and voluntarily share their pursuit of happiness. As a store of value, John Bogle saw a marvelous opportunity for value creation - exploit the price mechanism of efficient capital markets for the benefit of small investors.

What Is Economic Repression? It’s The Squeeze On Our Individual Incomes Due To Excessive Regulation and Taxation.

February 4, 2020

A rich society that is not living up to its potential due to economic repression, i.e., restrictions on economic freedom, is a tragedy, even if it is more difficult to commiserate with people in such societies compared to those forced to live (often literally) in impoverished lands.

We Are Close To Knowing Which Bits Of DNA Code Determine Which Human Traits.

February 3, 2020

Over the next decade, geneticists are on track to identify thousands of variants associated with dozens of traits. That achievement will open up the ability to score genetic potential on those traits and thereby revolutionize the social sciences.

Oops! Accounting Adjustment At The Pentagon. $35 Trillion Dollars (Yes, Trillion).

February 2, 2020

2018 US GDP is estimated at $20.5 trillion. World GDP is estimated at just about $85 trillion. The Pentagon’s accounting adjustments are not only larger than the entire US GDP, but have reached over 40 percent of world GDP estimates.

The Dark Side Of the Plant-Based Movement: It’s The Worst Kind Of Large Scale Industrial Food Production.

February 1, 2020

The trend attracts the megaliths of the agricultural industry to step in, having realised that the “plant-based” lifestyle generates large profit margins, adding value to cheap raw materials (such as protein extracts, starches, and oils) through ultra-processing.

Unlocking the Secrets of the Captive Mind – Poland’s Poet Laureate Czeslaw Milosz

January 31, 2020

Milosz discovered Ketman in Islamic theology. Also known as taqiyya, it is the practice of concealment and deception in order to preserve one's faith. For the intellectuals and bourgeoise in Milosz' Soviet occupied Poland after World War II, it was a matter of life and death. As the iron curtain of Communism's hopelessness fell in post war Poland, Ketman became necessary.

Politicians Who Complain About Intellectual Property Theft Have, As Is Their Norm, No Idea What They Are Talking About.

January 30, 2020

How insulting for thinkers and policymakers to presume American ingenuity is so easy to recreate. Implicit in this notion that genius can be easily stolen is the mistaken presumption that the present mirrors the future. It doesn’t,

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