mises.org: Conceptual Clarity in Dismantling Economic Jargon -- -- Keynesians are known for using obscure and jumbled jargon to explain their fallacious ideas. The hope being that, the more confusing the language, the greater the perceived scholarship. Good economics can and should be clearly logically explained. #liberty #news
reason.com: How Inflation Breaks Our Brains -- -- From salt riots to toilet paper runs, history shows that rising prices make consumers—and voters—grumpy and irrational. #liberty #news
reason.com: Free Speech and the Educational Mission -- -- Some of the hardest free speech issues arise when a university argues that restrictions are justified by its educational mission. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Taboo Against Truth: Holocausts and Historians -- https://tinyurl.com/25aegqzb -- In fact, all great states in the 20th century have been killer states, to a greater or lesser degree. #liberty #news
reason.com: A Federal Prison Was Warned About Synthetic Marijuana. Then Inmates Started Overdosing. -- -- We are living in pure chaos, an incarcerated woman at a federal prison in Minnesota tells Reason following a string of suspected overdoses. #liberty #news
reason.com: 1 in 3 College Students Say Violence in a Campus Protest Can Be Acceptable, Survey Finds -- -- The survey of over 50,000 students also found that 37 percent of students said it was sometimes or always acceptable to shout down a speaker, up from 31 percent last year. #liberty #news
reason.com: Drive-Thrus Are Booming. Why Are Cities Banning Them? -- -- Despite increasing demand, cities across the U.S. are pushing bans on new drive-thru restaurants in the name of reducing traffic and promoting walkability. #liberty #news
mises.org: America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago -- -- The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs. #liberty #news
mises.org: Debunking Alarmism over Artificial Intelligence -- https://tinyurl.com/23up8zlr -- As AI continues to develop, so does the hysteria that AI will soon take over and relegate us to a dystopian future. We need to realize that, like so many other tools, AI can have good and bad uses, but it cannot control itself. #liberty #news
mises.org: Diego Garcia and Cocos Islands: Another Example of US Imperialism -- https://tinyurl.com/29vkb2o3 -- The US Armed Forces expand their footprints in the Indian Ocean, not to defend this country, but to expand military power. The Diego Garcia base has left a trail of ruined lives for those forced off their land to make room for yet another military base. #liberty #news