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The Christchurch Call Comes Undone
As a recent BFD article warned, it’s foolish to venerate Elon Musk as some kind of avenging capitalist demigod straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. When all’s said and done, the guy’s a businessman. Making lots of money is what he does. But if, in the
The Emperor Elonicus
CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Everyone is going to hate this column. Musk worshipers are going to hate it because I’m going to blaspheme against Elon Musk. Musk demonizers are going to hate it because I am not going to blaspheme against him enough. Everyone else is going to hate
Surprise of the Day
Used car prices to go up 25 percent under Clean Car Standard, motor industry predicts. […] Dumper said if it had taken three or four years longer, there would have been a lot less pain. Subaru’s most optimistic planning was for sales to crash 20 per cent. “Our sales could
CBDC Is on Its Way
The Doctor What could be worse than central bank incompetence? Central Bank Digital Currencies. Seventy-five basis points. Wow! The biggest increase ever in New Zealand. Gosh. Four-point-two-five per cent. No way! That Reserve Bank of New Zealand sure is tough on inflation. Or is it? If
Why Sam Bankman-Fried Sounded So Much like a Rand Villain
Jon Miltimore fee.org 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: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller,
Employers Are Done with Unis
In a previous life, your scribe was a graphic designer by trade. That included sub-contracting as part of a small, tight-knit team on a burgeoning new company. Very often, we’d receive resumes from new graduates looking for a job. Most of them went straight in the bin.
Food Shortage of the Day
Bad news for Kiwis who love a classic pavlova on Christmas, New Zealand is in for an egg shortage. New egg farming rules coming into force next month and high bird-feed costs are driving huge price increases and rationing of eggs. Newshub The new farming rules have forced small
They’re on Twitch, Too
Some years ago, I read an account of what it was like to be a Facebook moderator. This was, of course, back in the day when they spent less time policing WrongThink and actually tried, at least, to contain the sewer of graphic violence and child abuse. It was a
Poll of the Day
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Luxury Shoe Brand Ad Crosses the Line
Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. She served as an MRC Culture intern in Spring 2021 and became staff
One Step Closer to Social Credit
How do societies slide into totalitarianism? One step at a time. You don’t go to bed one night in an open, free country and wake up the next morning to find yourself under constant surveillance with jackbooted thugs banging on your door and all your civil liberties stripped away.
Musk: Twitter Has ‘Freedom of Speech,’ Not ‘Freedom of Reach’
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 says Twitter’s new speech policy is “freedom of speech,” not “freedom
The Dems Lose Their Sugar Nerd
Just what, exactly, went on with collapsed crypto exchange FTX will no doubt take months and years to unravel. If ever, given the already-uncovered dark web of connections running from the Bahamas to Washington to Kiev. Whether allegations that FTX was some kind of money-laundering front for the
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