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What Now for Crypto?

Jeff Deist Robert P. Murphy mises.org Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets and civil society. He takes particular interest in private legal systems and private money as tools for radically decentralizing political power. Robert

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What a Disgrace: Auckland Airport

What a Disgrace: Auckland Airport

After my partner and I had spent nearly 24 hours travelling from Asia to return to New Zealand our last leg from Sydney to Auckland was delayed by two hours. We finally arrived at Auckland Airport on QF143 18 November 2022 only to be advised by the captain they had

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FTX and SBF: the Covid Connection

Jeffrey A Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at the Epoch Times,

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Elon Musk: How Being Autistic May Make Him Think Differently

Elon Musk: How Being Autistic May Make Him Think Differently

Punit Shah Luca Hargitai University of Bath Lucy Anne Livingston King’s College London Punit Shah is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Bath. Luca Hargitai is a PhD researcher at the University of Bath exploring the concept and measurement of ADHD and its links with mental

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Good for Business, but Not the Planet

In business, it is said, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. However, this is not the case for planned obsolescence, where planned failure is factored in at product design stage. As we are to be subjected to ever more stringent and punitive climate change measures, the increasing

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Facebook Works to Deliver Us from Truth

Facebook Works to Deliver Us from Truth

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson brownstone.org Thorsteinn Siglaugsson is an Icelandic consultant, entrepreneur and writer and contributes regularly to The Daily Sceptic as well as various Icelandic publications. He holds a BA degree in philosophy and an MBA from INSEAD. Thorsteinn is a certified expert in the Theory of Constraints and author

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FTX: Where Did the Billions Go?

FTX: Where Did the Billions Go?

What the hell is going on with FTX? What even is FTX, and why is it all over the news, suddenly? Groucho Marx said, when the market is in the news, it’s time to get out of the market. For many investors in crypto currency exchange FTX, it’s

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Fired Twitter Employees Won’t Win

Fired Twitter Employees Won’t Win

Raymond Hogler Colorado State University Raymond Hogler teaches labor and employment relations at Colorado State University. After earning his Ph.D. and J.D. degrees at the University of Colorado, He taught at Pennsylvania State University where I was a tenured associate professor in the Labor Studies Department until returning

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Skycity Wins the Gold Medal For…

Skycity Wins the Gold Medal For…

voicesforfreedom.co.nz Information Opinion The roulette wheels aren’t the only thing spinning at NZ’s largest casino, SkyCity. SkyCity’s Communications Team is in PR-spin overdrive with the latest offering from the Public Relations Institute of NZ (PRINZ): Collective Immunity Protects our Community – an afternoon of tone-deaf, self-congratulatory

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Three Day Week Is a Winner

Three Day Week Is a Winner

Remember when science fiction promised us we’d all be working less and less in the future? Sure, that one worked out about as well as the flying cars. (Mind you, it also debunks the endless, “Robots is gonna terk er jerbs!” fear-mongering, so, potayto, potahto.) But, as some creative

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Australians Aren’t Feeling the Cheer

Australians Aren’t Feeling the Cheer

It’s happened again: “get woke, go broke”. Much as some folk are gloating, though, the harsh reality is that up to 75 workers in a small town are out of a job, thanks to a decision they had nothing to do with them. The Canadian dairy behind Cheers [sic]

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Musk: ‘We Have to Be Tolerant of Views We Don’t Agree With’

Musk: ‘We Have to Be Tolerant of Views We Don’t Agree With’

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. Elon Musk reaffirmed his commitment to free speech in a meeting with advertisers Wednesday.

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Will Govt Reform the Banking Sector?

Will Govt Reform the Banking Sector?

Bryce Edwards Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz The corporate retail banks are making mega profits on the back of Government policies and indirect subsidies of recent years. As a result, there are calls from across almost the whole political spectrum for greater regulation of the banking

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Why Are Our Borders Still Closed?

Michael Bassett bassettbrashandhide.com Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments Have you noticed recently how many shops have signs wanting staff? How many tradesmen are hard to hire because

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Why Unemployment Is Set to Rise

Michael P. Cameron University of Waikato Michael P. Cameron is an associate professor in economics at the University of Waikato. He is also a research fellow in Te Ngira – Institute for Population Research the National, and was a PGDA Visiting Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public

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Will Elon Musk ‘Free the Bird’? I Certainly Hope So

Will Elon Musk ‘Free the Bird’? I Certainly Hope So

David Thunder mercatornet.com David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society. After a complicated, winding, and tense standoff between Musk and the Twitter board, as well as a pending legal trial at a Delaware Chancery Court, the eccentric billionaire

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