FEEcast

McDonald's in North Korea? Chinese dresses in Utah? Are such cross-cultural remixes cause for offense or celebration? Is militarism or trade the best answer to tyranny? Is cultural emulation a form of appropriation or appreciation? These questions and more are considered in this lively discussion with the whole FEEcast gang: Richard Lorenc, Brittany Hunter, Dan Sanchez, and Marianne March.

Show Notes:

• McDonalds on streets of North Korea: Kim Jong-un wants USA to invest in Pyongyang
• Conscience on the Battlefield | Leonard E. Read
• Want Peace? Promote Free Trade | Julian Adorney
• In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives | Richard Mason
• Venezuela Proves There is No Political Freedom Without Economic Freedom
• Chinese prom dress draws rage, but Utah student said she meant no harm
• Cultural Appropriation Is Love | TJ Brown
• Cultural Appropriation Is Intellectual Property on Stilts | Pierre-Guy Veer
• How Motown Smashed the Cultural Border | Sean Malone
• What's Wrong With Wakanda?

There's a bomb that keeps ticking but never goes boom: the population bomb. For centuries, pessimists have predicted that population growth will overwhelm the planet's resources and lead to an ecological armageddon. Yet, time and again, their doomsday prophecies have proven spectacularly wrong. Not only does the human race keep growing, but living standards keep going up, not down. Why do they keep underestimating humanity? They don't understand that our ultimate resource is not anything in the ground. So what is it? Watch this episode of FEEcast to find out!

The Foundation for Economic Education proudly presents the inaugural episode of our new weekly show FEEcast, a lively and intelligent exploration of today's most interesting stories and issues through the clarifying lens of economic thinking. In this episode, Richard Lorenc, Brittany Hunter, Dan Sanchez, and Marianne March discuss taxes (IRS.gov had a tax day meltdown!), wealth (#IdLikeToBeRichEnoughTo is trending on Twitter), and what made human prosperity, after millions of years of stagnation, skyrocket in recent history.

Links from this episode:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/irs-payment-site-fails-on-tax-day-but-you-still-have-to-pay/ar-AAvYXBI?ocid=spartandhp https://twitter.com/hashtag/IdLikeToBeRichEnoughTo?src=tren https://fee.org/articles/you-are-richer-than-john-d-rockefeller/ https://fee.org/articles/the-maddison-project-reveals-humanitys-remarkable-economic-progress-in-a-single-chart/ http://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/436