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| Dec 29, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: D. Brian Blank and Brandy Hadley: What does 2025 hold for interest rates, inflation and the American consumer? | By D. Brian Blank and Brandy Hadley
Heading into 2024, we said the U.S. economy would likely continue growing, in spite of pundits’ forecast that a recession would strike. The past year showcased strong economic growth, moderating inflation... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The TMJ Treatment Crisis: A Painful Divide in American Healthcare**
** | ** In the United States, a silent epidemic is gnawing at the jaws of millions. Temporomandibular joint disorders, or TMJ, affect an estimated 33 million Americans. This condition, which causes debilitating pain and stiffness in the jaw, oft... |
| Jul 22, 2024 | Why South Africans should reject higher taxes on Shein | The South African Revenue Service announced recently that it will impose a 45% import tax on goods that cost R500 or less, imported from China through online retailers such as Shein and Temu. Unions and businesses praise this as a “levellin... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Why Zoomers Should Embrace Bitcoin: An Open Letter to Gen Z | Despite its stature as the oldest and most valuable cryptocurrency, Bitcoin remains an enigma to much of Generation Z due to slanted news coverage. Media reports overemphasize fraud, hacks, and price crashes, deterring many Gen Zers from ta... |
| Apr 1, 2023 | New Jersey factory imports cocaine plant that flavors Coca-Cola thanks to DEA arrangement | More On: coca-cola
Drinking Coke and Pepsi leads to larger testicles, more testosterone: study Why drinking Diet Coke as a mixer gets you drunk faster than full-sugar soda I’m a Diet Coke addict like Elon Musk: ‘I love the burning down my e... |
| Dec 9, 2022 | Не возжелай запуска рублёвого денежного станка и ставок процентных низких | Экономическое, частично философское эссе о монетарной политике сквозь призму венчурной индустрии. Посвящено всем тем, кто считает дешёвые кредиты неоспоримым благом.
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| May 19, 2022 | Matt Prewitt: Let’s Use New Forms of Money to Commit to Our Communities | At age 10, a teacher asked me to write an essay on what I would do to fix a world problem. I declared that I would like to ban money because I saw it at the root of much evil. That idea was clumsy, and what I’ll outline here might be, too, ... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | If there is a digital health bubble, does it really matter for entrepreneurs? | For the better part of the last two-plus years, my colleagues and I at 7wireVentures have been asked as investors if health care — and especially digital health — is in a “bubble.” Though these conversations rarely reach a satisfying conclu... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Stephanie Kelton Argues Why We "Don't Have To Find The Money," We Can Just Print It | Before beginning The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (2020), by Stephanie Kelton, I was prepared for certain predictable arguments about how governments can finance themselves with outright money c... |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Bitcoin’s Censorship-Resistance Was a Step Change in History | When he wasn't getting enough attention from the public back in 2017, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon used to play this game: He'd just say something dismissive about bitcoin and it was sure to put him in the headlines.
So, a prominent entre... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife | Law enforcement officers have no legal obligation to protect and serve. The words look nice on badges and insignias, but courts have said this is only a nicety, not a guarantee. |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife | Law enforcement officers have no legal obligation to protect and serve. The words look nice on badges and insignias, but courts have said this is only a nicety, not a guarantee. |
| Jul 8, 2021 | It's Time to Separate Managers From Entrepreneurs | July 8, 2021 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Starting a new business is hardly an ordered process, and there is no checklist or manual to follow. Rather, it is a jumble of disparate tasks, not to me... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Article 7 and Bitcoin’s Latin American Coup | When I first heard that El Salvador had passed its Bitcoin Law on June 9, I was astonished. It never occurred to me that any national government would embrace bitcoin and make it an official medium of exchange. As a longtime advocate of wha... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | How Entrepreneurs Should Think About Hiring In the Gig Economy | June 15, 2021 5 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
The so-called “gig economy" is here to stay. It is not a temporary, limited phenomenon, and it neither started nor ends with ride sharing. Instead,... |
| Apr 24, 2021 | A book dissecting the 1929 stock market crash shows startling similarities to today’s euphoric market. Here are 4 examples of how history may be repeating itself. | People gather on the sub-treasury building steps across from the New York Stock Exchange in New York on ‘Black Thursday,’ Oct. 24, 1929. AP
In “Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929” Maury Klein details the speculative fever that washed over mar... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | A book dissecting the 1929 stock market crash shows startling similarities to today's euphoric market. Here are 4 examples of how history may be repeating itself. | In "Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929" Maury Klein details the speculative fever that washed over markets ahead of the event.
The book reveals striking similarities to today's euphoric market, which has led to soaring prices of sto... |
| Apr 14, 2021 | How to Become an Entrepreneur Who Doesn't Think About Costs | April 14, 2021 4 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
One of the greatest burdens on entrepreneurs is costs. After all, if costs are not covered by revenues in a timely manner, it is the end of the busines... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | 88 years ago Franklin D. Roosevelt banned gold ownership in the US – will a Bitcoin ban follow? | |
| Mar 20, 2021 | Why the gender gap in economics is even larger than in STEM | The lack of female role models may be one of the reasons fewer women study economics. 10’000 Hours/Getty Images
Women represent fewer than 15% of full professors in economics departments, according to a recent study.
Economist Veronika Dola... |
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| Feb 12, 2021 | Protect Yourself. Live Outside The Bubble | There is a mania hovering over the investment landscape. Bonds. Digital currencies. A large part of the stock market. Certain real estate sectors. All driven to bullish extremes. Priced for perfection. Priced for disappointment. |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Crypto Is the Libertarian Cheat Code in the Final Battle Over State Coercion | In the great game of the world economy, the final boss victory for crypto would be to rob nation-states of the ability to issue legitimate money – at least, that would be the libertarian win condition.
"Everyone who has been around lon... |
| Apr 18, 2020 | The Liquidity Crunch: Bitcoin And Beyond | PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 25: In this photo illustration, a visual representation of the digital ... [+] Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is displayed on June 25, 2019 in Paris, France. Bitcoin surpassed the 11,000 dollar mark Monday, Facebook's arrival ... |
| Mar 27, 2020 | The 2020 Ranking Of Free-Market Think Tanks Measured By Social Media Impact | Due to the coronavirus pandemic think tanks around the world are working under quarantine and have cancelled all events in the coming months. They will have to rely more on social media to get their messages across. How successful are free-... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | First Circuit Appeals Court: 'Community Caretaking' Function Applies To Warrantless Seizures, Not Actually Caring For The Community | The First Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed what we've already assumed: the "community caretaking" function law enforcement performs is there to help it dodge the Constitution, not to ensure it actually takes care of the comm... |
| Mar 20, 2020 | First Circuit Appeals Court: 'Community Caretaking' Function Applies To Warrantless Seizures, Not Actually Caring For The Community | The First Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed what we’ve already assumed: the “community caretaking” function law enforcement performs is there to help it dodge the Constitution, not to ensure it actually takes care of the community. Cit... |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Crypto Progressives Become Conservative With Their Own Chains | CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the cofounder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup.
Most burgeoning crypto enthusia... |
| Dec 2, 2019 | Assessing the Trump Administration’s Proposed Changes to the Small-Arms Export Regime | The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2020 is currently in House-Senate Conference Committee reconciliation negotiations. Among the several differences between the House and Senate versions is an amendment that could deci... |
| Feb 27, 2018 | Why the blockchain challenges conventional thinking about intellectual property | Logo source: The Ethereum Foundation.
Cryptocurrencies are getting a lot of attention, but finance is only one of many applications of the blockchain technology behind it.
Blockchain technology is poised to revolutionise almost everything f... |
| Sep 22, 2017 | Investor Doug Casey: Bitcoin May Be Money, But It Still Might Fail | Investor and anarcho-capitalist Doug Casey recently argued that bitcoin qualifies as money – even if he's not sure it'll last in the long term.
In an interview published yesterday, the Casey Research founder discussed his viewpoints behind ... |
| Jan 4, 2017 | Why 2017 Will Prove 'Blockchain' Was a Bad Idea | Ferdinando Ametrano teaches Bitcoin and Blockchain Technologies at Politecnico di Milano and Milano Bicocca University. He was chairman of Scaling Bitcoin 2016 and is also former Head of Blockchain and Virtual Currencies at Intesa Sanpaolo ... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Could the Blockchain End Bureaucracy? | Alexander Hitchcock is a researcher at Reform, a UK-based think tank where he has authored reports on healthcare, welfare and public procurement.
In this opinion piece, Hitchcock discusses how blockchain technology could be used to fight bu... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | Why Central Banks Will Fail at Digital Currency | Akin Fernandez is the owner of bitcoin voucher service Azteco and an active technology blogger going under the nickname 'Beautyon'.
In this opinion piece, Fernandez offers a critique of a presentation given last week at the US Federal Reser... |
| Apr 23, 2015 | Jeb Bush Compliments Obama For Continuing And Expanding His Brother's War On Terror | Not for nothing did Washington warn against the formation of political parties. In this country, bipartisan support can occasionally still be found for the innovative or the innocuous, but for very little else. Not that the parties are real... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Sad: 75 Year Old Explanation For Why Copyrights Are Bad… Locked Up Behind Paywall | A few weeks ago, we wrote about famed economist Gary Becker (along with his colleague Judge Richard Posner) discussing problems with the patent and copyright system, and pondering if the laws on both needed to change. Becker’s thoughts were... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | What A Waste: Taiwan Plans To Create A 'Patent Bank' To Protect Taiwanese Companies Against Patent Lawsuits | Tim Swanson was the first of a few of you to pass on the news that the Taiwanese government is planning to put together a “patent bank” that would basically seek to buy up patents around certain technologies, and local Taiwanese firms share... |
| Oct 5, 2011 | New UK Banknote Celebrates James Watt, Patent Bully and Monopolist | As do many nations, England likes to put images of its great and good on banknotes. In a somewhat quixotic attempt to stem the decline of what little manufacturing remains in the country, the governor of the Bank of England has come up with... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | Хроника американских дефолтов | Краткая история американских кредитных дефолтов
Автор: Джон С. Чемберлен (John S. Chamberlain)
13 июля президент Соединенных Штатов в раздражении покинул проходящие переговоры по поводу повышения лимита задолженности с максимума в $14,294 т... |
| Jun 2, 2011 | Supreme Court Says It's Still Inducement Even If You Proactively Took Steps To Make Sure You Weren't Infringing | A blog post by Skip Oliva alerts us to a very troubling Supreme Court ruling in a patent lawsuit that is going to have massive, dangerous unintended consequences — as pointed out by the lone dissenter, Justice Kennedy. Effectively, the ruli... |
| May 27, 2011 | Waiting 100+ Years For Version 2.0 | Jeffrey A. Tucker (of the Mises Institute) recently had the pleasure of viewing Tangled, Disney’s 2010 remake of the Rapunzel story. He gives a brief rundown of the improvements, including: |
| Jul 27, 2010 | Author Claims Patents Made Industrial Revolution Possible; Then Shows Why He's Wrong | A bunch of folks have been submitting the story about author William Rosen appearing on The Daily Show hyping his new book about the steam engine, where he claims that the industrial revolution happened because of the ability to “own ideas.... |
| Jul 2, 2010 | The Myth That Without Gov't Monopolies Or Subsidies, Discoveries Will Be Hidden By Secrets | Stephan Kinsella sends over a fascinating talk by Dr. Terence Kealey, a UK biochemist and professor, discussing why — contrary to what most people think, “science” is not a public good, and that government-funded science actually tends to d... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | What's Wrong With Net Neutrality: Counterarguments to the FCC | On June 17, the FCC opened to inquiry its plans for net neutrality regulations. We all know the platform: unbiased access for all computers to any Web site or service. Sounds great on the surface, and it's being backed by lobbying from Goog... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | Is Intellectual Property A Violation Of Real Property? | While there was a recent argument being made (weakly) that all property is intellectual property, reader Kerry Kaye recently pointed out a discussion of the opposite point of view, saying that intellectual property is actually a violation o... |
| Mar 12, 2009 | Copyright And Classical Music: The Exact Opposite Of The Intended Purpose | Earlier this year, we discussed a recent article about the impact of copyright on classical music, where it was noted that the music that is still considered the absolute best of that particular era mostly came from countries that did not h... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | Why Is It So Difficult To Opt-Out Of Copyright? | Every so often, when someone new shows up on Techdirt, reading a post about our complaints about overly aggressive copyright holders, they’ll make a comment along the lines of “well, you wouldn’t be saying that if someone took Techdirt’s co... |
| Dec 5, 2007 | Patent Attorney Offers $5k For Identity Of Anonymous Patent Troll Tracker | A few months back, we discovered the blog of an anonymous IP lawyer called The Patent Troll Tracker. It had great info, and you’ve probably noticed that we’re now linking to stories from that site on a fairly regular basis. Sometime before ... |
| Sep 5, 2007 | MPAA Pushes Lawmakers to Criminalize Movie Camming | Their goal is to make movie camming a criminal instead of a civil offense to clear the way for more severe punishments. New laws often allow punishments up to several years jail time and exorbitant fines.
This week MPAA chairman Dan Glickma... |
| Jul 19, 2007 | MPAA Responds to Harry Potter Leak | In an official MPAA press release Glickman states:
“Reports on the theft of the latest installment of Harry Potter underscores that robbery of intellectual property extends far beyond the movies, to music, publishing, computer software
and ... |
| May 21, 2007 | Military Grade DRM? | A company that has built a type of DRM technology for software used by the Defense Department is now trying to take that same technology and hit the commercial market as well. It’s relatively expensive, so don’t expect to see it on your nex... |
| Sep 18, 2006 | iPod Dying: Oh No! | There’s a he said/she said going on in the blogosphere this week about the seeming demise of Apple due to slow uptake of the iTunes store. This is because, according to major research organizations:
It seems like somebody got a calculator o... |
