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• Inequality Has Surged Since 1989, but the Lifestyle Gap Has Shrunk
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  John Tamny | Friday, June 21, 2019

  The wealth gap that has triggered so many is not as bad as many people think. The rich have gotten that way thanks to a world that shrinks figuratively by the day such that the super-talented can increasingly change the world with their tech discoveries. 

• Good Money, Bad Money—And How Bitcoin Fits In
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  Thorsten Polleit | Wednesday, June 12, 2019

  As the state expands and sprouts like weeds in an untended garden, fiat money strangles—even destroys—individual freedom and liberty. To support economic progress and a sophisticated monetary sphere, a currency must be compatible with some form of financial intermediation.

• Today’s Schools Are Yesterday’s Streetcars: How Technology Will Transform Education
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  Kerry McDonald | Thursday, May 30, 2019

  In his award-winning TED Talk, Newcastle University professor Sugata Mitra explained how children teach themselves without institutional schooling.

• Have Consumers Already Lost the Online Privacy War?
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  Sam Bocetta | Monday, May 20, 2019

  You’ve probably noticed your smartphone suddenly recommending products you were just researching as if the device was hardwired to your brain. Consumer privacy is under siege in the era of Big Data.

• The US Is 5 Years Away from a National Debt Death Spiral. Here’s Why
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  Craig Eyermann | Wednesday, May 15, 2019

  According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Debt Management, the U.S. government is just five years away from the point where every new dollar it borrows from the public will go toward funding interest payments on the national debt.

• Boris Nemtsov: Russian Dissident, Rebel for Peace, and Enemy of Tyrants
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  Paweł Piwowar | Sunday, May 12, 2019

  Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on Feb. 27, 2015, 100 meters from the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, two days before he was to lead a rally in support of Ukraine.

• Europe’s Censorious New Copyright Directive Is the End of the Internet as We Know It
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  Matthew Lesh | Wednesday, March 27, 2019

  Article 11 prevents news aggregators, such as search engines and social media companies, from linking and providing snippets of news articles without paying a “link tax.”

• The Real Cost of Universal Basic Income
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  Gonzalo Schwarz | Friday, February 22, 2019

  Welfare programs have a role in providing a helping hand, but they should be a trampoline instead of a mattress.

• Are Green New Dealers Evolution Deniers?
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  Matt Warner | Wednesday, February 20, 2019

  Green New Deal supporters’ faith in their own ability to reshape the economy belies any hope that they appreciate the iterative processes by which markets evolve as a function of human behavior.

  It’s a blind spot for any socialists who like to see themselves as faithful followers of scientific discovery.

• Why Stress Is One of the Best Predictors of High Life Satisfaction
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  Barry Brownstein | Tuesday, February 12, 2019

  It might seem that a life without adversity would be an easier path, but would the richness of our life be lost?