Why You Vote for Corn Syrup Even Though It Might Be Killing You
The US government spends billions of dollars a year subsidizing American farms, providing massive benefits for some farmers and dispersing the […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
It’s Literally Insane to Unleash Government against Opiates
This week, Donald Trump focused all his energy on addressing the opiate crisis. Calling for enhanced “law and order” tactics, […]
The Psychological Appeal of Blockchain Technology
In the following paragraphs I will attempt to explain my quick observations of how current relational templates are mirrored by […]
The Soviets Tried to Run an Economy without Market Prices
In a recent Free Thoughts podcast, Cato scholar Andrei Illarionov, former economic advisor of Vladimir Putin, brought up a peculiar […]
The iPhone in Your Pocket Is Worth Millions
Several years ago, I had a estimating how much an iPhone would have cost to make in the 1990s. The […]
What is the Deep State?
Buzzwords come and buzzwords go. Lately, a trending buzzword – or, I guess, buzz phrase – among the politically inclined […]
Who Was the Biggest Mass Murderer in History?
Who was the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world? Most people probably assume that the answer is […]
Where Do Prices Come From?
Very few of us have the opportunity to experience the heart of what makes our civilization work. Crypto-asset markets are […]
The Cryptoeconomy Is Flowering Before Your Eyes
A statue in front of the Federal Trade Commission shows a horse (the market) being restrained by a man (government). […]
The Medical Cartel is Keeping Health Care Costs High
In 2010, the small town of Collegedale, Tennessee had the dubious distinction of having the highest prevalence of Type II […]
From Bitcoin to Ether: Today’s Blockchain Basics
Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain are game-changing technologies that are reshaping and revolutionizing the world economy. (1) Often hidden […]
The Market Is More Unanimous Than Democracy
The quotation of the day is from page 270 of my late Nobel laureate colleague Jim Buchanan‘s insightful and deep 1984 […]
How Capitalism Makes Us Less Wasteful
It has always bothered me to go to a sporting event or get on a plane and see lots of […]
What Venezuela Can Teach Young Socialists
Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet dictator between 1953 and 1964, allegedly said that when “the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain […]
Subject To Search (Full Measure w/ @SharylAttkisson)
Source Full Measure News Twitter @SharylAttkisson Twitter @FullMeasureNews Follow 2VNews on Twitter Last year, when a Turkish man was arrested […]
The Most Important Invention You Never Thought About
One of the most important dates in recent human history is the 26th of April 1956. That was the day […]