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Gamestop: A Sign of the Times

Robert Aro mises.org Whether you call it the state, system, Swamp, or establishment, now we get to watch as they cry foul because recent trading activity has, as the Wall Street Journal puts it: upended the natural order between hedge-fund investors and those trying their hand at trading from

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Paternalism and Robinhood Revisited

Paternalism and Robinhood Revisited

Ethan Yang aier.org Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed against the popular self-guided investing app Robinhood by Massachusetts regulators and how it was the epitome of the nanny state. Essentially the regulators took issue with Robinhood’s consumer appeal, citing things like digital confetti, shiny buttons, and

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This Is Why We Don’t Need Hate Speech Laws

This Is Why We Don’t Need Hate Speech Laws

Dr David Cumin Spokesperson Free Speech Coalition Nearly a month into the new year and it’s been radio silence on the proposed hate speech law changes. This insightful article by Graham Adams sheds some light on possible explanations for the Government’s trepidation. But this doesn’t mean that

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“This Is a Financial Revolution. . .”

Simon Black sovereignman.com James (aka Simon Black) is an international investor, entrepreneur, and founder of Sovereign Man. His free daily e-letter Notes from the Field is about using the experiences from his life and travels to help you achieve more freedom, make more money, keep more of it, and

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Corporate America Getting Rich off Muslim Slaves? Surely Not

Corporate America Getting Rich off Muslim Slaves? Surely Not

Sarah Cowgill libertynation.com What do Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, and Nike have in common? Besides being “woke” corporations spewing political propaganda, they are also reported to be complicit in the mass detention of what China officially calls “ethnic minorities.” The Australian Strategic Policy Institute recently released their report “Uyghurs*

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The Great Memestock Revolt of 2021

The Great Memestock Revolt of 2021

When Bernie Sanders was deliberately shafted for the second time by the Democrat party, some observers urged the BernieBros to switch their vote to Donald Trump. As they pointed out, the MAGAs and the Bernie Bros have more in common with each other than they might think. Leave out the

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3 Harmful Consequences of Biden Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline

3 Harmful Consequences of Biden Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline

Brad Polumbo fee.org Brad Polumbo is a libertarian-conservative journalist and Opinion Editor at the Foundation for Economic Education. President Joe Biden wasted no time after Wednesday’s inaugural ceremonies before getting to work. He signed 17 executive orders and memorandums—by far the most in history on a president’

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Who Is Tim Cook to Lecture on Freedom?

Who Is Tim Cook to Lecture on Freedom?

You’ll forgive me if I decline to take moralising lessons on democratic freedoms from billionaires whose corporations run on Chinese slave labour. At last year’s Academy Awards, Ricky Gervais reminded the audience that, while Apple made self-righteous TV shows “about the importance of dignity and doing the right

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Aucklanders Flocking to Queenstown in $750m Luxury Buy-up

Aucklanders Flocking to Queenstown in $750m Luxury Buy-up

This government’s response to Covid may have wrecked many businesses and lives but a luxury development in the well-known wine region Gibbston Valley, not far from Arrowtown and Queenstown, has shown us that not everyone in New Zealand is hurting. The long awaited Gibbston Valley Resort’s first phase

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Ardern Keeps Tiwai Point on Life Support

Ardern Keeps Tiwai Point on Life Support

For a government which has been running around, Chicken Little-style, clucking about a supposed “climate emergency”, the Ardern government seems strangely reluctant to do its bit to stop the sky falling in. Besides exempting agriculture – one of New Zealand’s biggest sources of those scary, scary greenhouse emissions – from emissions

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Should We Trade Our Souls to China?

Should We Trade Our Souls to China?

“I knew you would sell your mother for an Etruscan vase. But I didn’t know you would sell out your country and your soul… to the slime of humanity” Prof. Henry Jones (Sean Connery), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. There’s been plenty of back-and-forth over the merits

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Restricting Free Speech on Social Media May Be a Slippery Slope

Restricting Free Speech on Social Media May Be a Slippery Slope

Jon Miltimore mercatornet.com Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The

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