Notwithstanding the popular view that increases in the money supply can help grow the economy, money cannot do such things. More money cannot replace real savings that sustain individuals in the various stages of production. According to Rothbard, this is revealed once the pool of real savings starts to decline and the central bank’s monetaryContinue Reading
The Truth about EV
Got this from my buddy Mark Reed… an interesting take on Electric Cars. “As an engineer I love the electric vehicle technology However, I have been troubled for a longtime by the fact that the electrical energy to keep the batteries charged has to come from the grid, and that means more power generation andContinue Reading
Technology: not for everyone
author unkown “I spent an hour in the bank with my dad, as he had to transfer some money. I couldn’t resist myself and asked… ”Dad, why don’t we activate your internet banking?” ”Why would I do that?” He asked… ”Well, then you wont have to spend an hour here for things like transfer. YouContinue Reading
Merck Scraps COVID Vaccines; Says It’s More Effective To Get The Virus And Recover – Summit News
Vaccine manufacturer Merck has abandoned development of two coronavirus vaccines, saying that after extensive research it was concluded that the shots offered less protection than just contracting the virus itself and developing antibodies. The company announced that the shots V590 and V591 were ‘well tolerated’ by test patients, however they generated an ‘inferior’ immune system responseContinue Reading
The Big Tech Extortion Racket | Harper’s Magazine
In the 1970s and 1980s, Robert Bork, Richard Posner, and other neoliberal Chicago School legal scholars set out to overturn America’s antimonopoly regime, targeting the traditional prohibitions on discrimination that common carrier laws had established. Their scholarship later played a major role in the writing of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.Continue Reading
The Freedom Of Individuals Still Matters – Even If COVID Warriors Say It Doesn’t | Zero Hedge
Immanuel Kant expressed it best in his humanity principle, i.e., that man is an end and must never be treated as a means to an end. Individuals have different preferences, and only the individual may determine what is and is not in his own best interest. Source: The Freedom Of Individuals Still Matters – Even If COVIDContinue Reading
Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, wants to build a ’15-minute city’
A sketch from the reelection campaign outlines one way a street might change to make it more enticing to avoid driving and better utilize the existing road space: Filled with traffic and parked cars now, it would be redesigned with greenery and park space at the side, a wide lane for biking and walking, andContinue Reading
Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell – VICE
It took 20 years for this idea to get this far. I started in recruiting doing this profile analysis stuff. And it is discriminatory and reaches too far and is given more credit than it deserves. If everyone didn’t need a good job so badly, there would be no need for this software. -ed Source:Continue Reading
Capitalism In America: How A Dismal Decimal Is Robbing Americans Blind | Zero Hedge
The United States is an oligarchy This concentration of the income and wealth on the top, proves that the United States is an oligarchy. A 2014, study by Princeton University demonstrated how the US is a political oligarchy. With this report showing the insanely widening income and wealth inequality, my aim is to show, that theContinue Reading
Coping With Global (& Local) Chaos: What You Can Control And What You Can’t
Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Have you been glued to the news lately, nervously watching what’s going on in the Middle East? Are you concerned that World War III is about to kick off at any moment? Is the state of the economy frequently on your mind? Maybe it’s Ebola thatContinue Reading