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• Your New Year’s Resolutions Fail Because You’re Not Listening
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  Barry Brownstein | Monday, January 1, 2018

  Knowing you need to make a change, you’ve set your goal. On Day 1, all goes well. By Day 2, the pull of old habits is strong. By dint of willpower, you keep your resolve. Little did you know, you have placed yourself on thin ice. Willpower is a limited resource and relying on it to change habits won’t get you as far as you hoped.

• State Steals Life-Savings from Innocent Musician
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  Anya Bidwell | Tuesday, December 19, 2017

  Civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to take and keep cash, cars and other property without ever charging someone with a crime. Before that fateful March day, Phil had never heard of civil forfeiture. He was just a musician driving through Wyoming to a show in Salt Lake City. Phil had big plans for his life savings, which he brought with him for safekeeping.

• Remember This Forgotten Champion of Liberty
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  Kaetana Leontjeva-Numaviciene | Sunday, December 10, 2017

  Communism in the USSR would have fallen with or without Alexander Yakovlev, but his wise guidance and intellectual rigor ensured that the most brutal regime in humankind’s history ended with a miraculous lack of bloodshed and violence.

• Obedience Training Is Unfit For Children
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  Genevieve Simperingham | Friday, December 8, 2017

  We can’t protect our children from unfairness and intimidation forever, from hurt people who hurt people. But we can support their healthy self-image, integrity, and their right to be respected and heard. To me, the victory is when children have the resilience to internally protect themselves from the intimidation that an authority figure or peer is working hard to transfer onto them.

• The Secret Billion Dollar Tax You’ve Never Heard About
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  Alex Von Mach | Thursday, November 16, 2017

  In the United States alone, there is over $58B in unclaimed property. That’s right, the amount of unclaimed assets is approximately the size of Luxembourg’s GDP. According to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA), in fiscal year 2015, of the $7.63B unclaimed property reported, only $3.235B was returned to rightful owners.

• The Excuse is Immigration, but Federal Checkpoints Violate Everyone’s Rights
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  Joe Jarvis | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

  So there you have it, Americans’ Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights were violated so that federal agents could prosecute victimless crimes. The only true victims in this whole checkpoint situation were all the people stopped by the agents.

• 10 Solutions to Intergenerational Poverty
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  Sean Malone | Tuesday, August 29, 2017

  Poverty is the natural state of the world and that the big mystery of human history is not how people become poor, but how people get rich? To solve poverty, we need to create a world where it’s incredibly easy for people from every conceivable starting point to enter the market and create their own success. To that end, I’d like to offer 10 effective ways to reduce poverty and inequality everywhere.

• Afghanistan and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
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  Brittany Hunter | Wednesday, August 23, 2017

  There are literally dozens of reasons to oppose escalating the war in Afghanistan. But there is one economic principle in particular that screams out from the text of Trump’s latest speech on Afghanistan: The sunk cost fallacy.

• Lobbying Is a Waste of Valuable Resources
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  Donald J. Boudreaux | Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  Lobbying requires resources: the buildings, office supplies, vehicles and fuel used to ferry lobbyists to and fro in their privilege-seeking efforts, but mostly the time and effort of the lobbyists themselves. And it always seems to happen that the greater the expected benefit of securing a special privilege, the greater the amount of resources wasted on securing it.

• This is the Real Reason Your iPhone Cables Break
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  David Veksler | Friday, August 11, 2017

  What has Apple accomplished with their PVC ban? Their reputation for making quality accessories has been ruined. Billions of broken Apple cables have been prematurely sent to the landfill. Billions of replacement cables will be sent to landfills when the gadgets they charge become obsolete. While Apple no longer uses PVC in their cables, many people now rely on cheap third party cables from China, which may use toxic chemicals like lead, arsenic, mercury, and brominated flame retardants.