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Brightline is stating that they will be able to expand service to Orlando next year. This will be the first time the rail operator has extended service outside of the Greater Miami Area. Libertarians and Republicans are looking at Brightline as a clear lesson of how the government is inefficient, bureaucratic, and messy, and how …
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It is interesting how the US will extend visas to NATO allies, violate human rights in our immigration prisons, and perform warrantless wiretaps, arguing that they keep this country safe, despite no evidence these actions keep us safe, and some evidence they actually make us less safe… But we absolutely refuse to mandate vaccines in …
Wikipedia is definitely the most useful reference material ever created by people. It is the first and only encyclopedia to have truly global contributions, and I believe it is one of the greatest inventions in history. That being said, there are people who want to trim it down because they want it to focus on …
If we had taxed millionaires over the last 40 years a wealth tax wouldn’t be on the table. The number of people who need public assistance wouldn’t be so dire if we had properly funded services which raise people out of poverty to the point where they don’t need public assistance over the last 40 …
So I have been running several laptops for the last year or so. A friend gave me some surface books which he didn’t need, I have a Mac mini with an M1 processor, and a system76 Oryx Pro which has served me well for the last 5 years, but it isn’t as portable as it …
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There is a lot of talk in libertarian circles about how everything would be better if we would privatize everything. Privatize the roads, privatize the railroads, privatize our electric grids, the government is inherently inefficient, and everything will be better. Then they will inevitably point to Hong Kong (which Milton Friedman personally pointed to as …
Fascism takes the form of whichever ideology at the time best enables their ideas. During the lead-up to Nazi Germany, they called themselves social. They made an alliance with the Soviet Union (because it was convenient) and it furthered their goal. They surrounded their rhetoric with vaguely socialist wording, while all the time their main …
The Standard Deduction is bad for Democrats. The Standard Deduction gives Americans a choice… we can either deduct the standard deduction and then stop there, or we can choose to itemize our deductions one by one, but we don’t get the standard deduction if we choose to itemize. So why is this bad for Democrats? …
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We are seeing a very dangerous precedent right now with the court case to undo student loan forgiveness. There are three main parts to this case that are very critical: Laws don’t have to help everyone equally. Medicare for All is basically the only policy in that basket. Bailouts are part of the American fabric. …
Playing with this idea that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon… one would expect a very high correlation between the federal funds rate and the inflation rate. Also for shits and giggles let’s throw in the price of energy in the United States. Here are my correlation coefficients: CPI Energy Fed Funds CPI …