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Why is Milk in the Back of the Store?
Is milk placement in grocery stores a plot against customers?
How Brexit Could Break the Cycle of Global Poverty
The UK's announcement of maintaining certain free trade deals will help less developed countries compete on a larger scale.
What is the Deep State?
Individuals acting in knowing concert might be a feature of the Deep State, but they aren’t its essence.
The Impacts of Openness: How Yoga Took Over The World
Why openness to other cultures leads to better outcomes for greater society
Critical Thinking Doesn't Mean What Most People Think
It's largely about underlying premises and discovering what's reasonable.
The Thrilling and Sometimes Terrifying World of Crypto-Innovation Is at a Turning Point
It’s one thing to read about cryptoeconomics and another thing to actually do it.
How Mass Schooling Perpetuates Inequality
Mass schooling was created as a system of social control for those without privilege.
Augmented Reality Is Already Changing the Workplace
It's one thing to analyze Excel sheets. It's another to create 3D charts and graphs communicating the same data.
Should We Worry about Jeff Bezos's Growing Empire?
When the two companies become one, one of two things will happen: either they will remain much as they are now, providing the same quality services and keeping customers happy, or they will change.
An EU Army Won't Make Europe Safe
They're actually pretty safe already, thanks to trade.
Why Your Boss Isn't Ripping You Off
The capitalist entrepreneur who hires workers in a free market does earn a profit if, but only if, he judges correctly how to combine scarce resources.
Scandinavia Is No Socialist Valhalla
20 percent of public hospital care in Scandinavia is privately provided – compared with six percent in Britain.
Silly but Serious: The Lesson of "Captain Underpants"
The potty humor is so over the top that it takes on a new and deeper significance
Society Will Carry On, Despite All Our Inventions
Soon the naysayers of the next innovation will moan, "People these days, they don't go on Facebook or text anymore! This is the end of everything."
Why Bastiat Is As Relevant As Ever on His 216th Birthday
167 years after Bastiat's death, the relevance of his ideas about economics and entrepreneurship are still applicable to our modern world.
You've Been Merging Lanes Wrong This Whole Time
It turns out that the jerk who whizzes to the front of the lane is doing it right.
A Kind Word on Behalf of Mexicans
Immigration opponents rarely appreciate, Mexico's diversity nor the extent to which the U.S economy depends on Mexican labor
The Blockchain Could Launch this African Nation to the Top
How blockchain will ensure property rights in Ghana subsequently allowing the nation to thrive
What Wikipedia and Bitcoin Have in Common
Bitcoin and Wikipedia are platforms founded by centralisation where no one can control it's value
Happy Birthday, iPhone!
You changed everything.
Cultural Appropriation Is Intellectual Property on Stilts
When a culture's ideas don't get adopted into wider society, they die
France Should Reconsider Its Extreme Vaccine Policy
Recently, the French government announced that it might make 11 vaccines compulsory for children.
How to Throw an Awesome Office Party
A competition between two local "best" pizzas turned out to be a riveting experience
Progressive City Governments Are Holding Back Progress
Thanks to technological advances, previous economic truths have become a bit more nuanced.
Guess What? There Are No Cuts in Medicaid
Why the reported cuts to Medicaid are a fallacy.
Who Needs a Lawyer When You Have the Blockchain?
When lawyers are no longer necessary to be the arbiters of contracts, a huge purpose of theirs will be destroyed overnight.
Homeschool is Booming, New Study Shows
Homeschoolers reduce public education costs by $22 billion a year.
Just Say No to the War on Drugs
Forty-six years and one trillion dollars after its start, President Richard Nixon's War on Drugs is still going.
Which State Is Most Dependent on Government?
The answer might surprise you.
Without the State, Who Will Handcuff Teens for Selling Water Bottles?
Over-enforcement has become all too common when it comes to youthful attempts at entrepreneurship.
What Was So Innocent about the Gilded Age?
Now I entirely understand why Joey Rothbard loved this book so much
You Can't End Poverty without Cutting Taxes
While debate has raged over the impact of tax cuts on growth and revenue, the moral case for low taxation remains largely neglected.
What Charles Darwin Owes Adam Smith
If the market needs no central planner, why should life need an intelligent designer, or vice versa?
The Practical Case Against Most Volunteer Work
Specialisation provides much more value to society than unskilled volunteers
Capitalism Is Getting Us out of the Kitchen
The liberation of women from the kitchen is ongoing.
The Market Is Necessary, but Not Sufficient, for Virtue
Wouldn’t we all prefer to live in an economy that brought out the best in us?
You Don't Need Government to Help You Skip College
Politicians have no clue what kind of jobs we need.
Seattle's Minimum Wage Has Been a Disaster, as the City's Own Study Confirms
How Seattle provides a practical example of minimum wages leading to losses in income and employment
The Cryptoeconomy Is Flowering Before Your Eyes
The cryptoeconomy was born in freedom and wants to stay free, based on the core principles of peer-to-peer exchange.
Carried Interest Tax Treatment Should Carry On
Treating carried interest tax as income would not only reduce incentive to invest it would impact the entire econom
The Answer to Israel's Revolving Door Problem
Translated from Hebrew to English, the term "hon-shilton" essentially means “capital-government.”
Why the Cannabis Industry Is Highly Moral
Truth is, if cannabis wasn’t so profitable, it would be very easy for the war on cannabis to continue.
5 Reforms That Could Save Puerto Rico's Economy
#5 Free the Trade
Tax Apologists Don’t Even Believe Their Own Rhetoric
Good.
Does It Matter If Americans Think Chocolate Milk Comes from Brown Cows?
Ignorance becomes dangerous when individual rational ignorance leads to harmful collective outcomes. Like with politics.
Technology Alone Won't Deliver Justice for Victims of Police Abuse
Police abuse is hard to prove when it is a citizen’s word against the state’s.
The Sweet Sociability of Self-Interest
Being an individualist is the furthest thing from being antisocial.
Multitasking is Bad for Your Brain
So quit it and try "deep work".
How Exclusionary Zoning Comes at a Loss for Housing and Jobs
If we want to increase housing and job opportunities there needs to be a cut back on zoning
It's Time to End the American Bar Association's Monopoly
The ABA is systematically harming ethnic minorities and becoming as obsolete as its counterpart in journalism education.
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