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We all have a tendency to repeat things we hear. But when many people start repeating the same thing, we come to believe that the thing must be true. Unfortunately, this happens a lot when it comes to politics and government. This is the first of a two-part episode in which we discuss incorrect things that people tend to think are correct simply because they get repeated.

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We all have a tendency to repeat things we hear. But when many people start repeating the same thing, we come to believe that the thing must be true. Unfortunately, this happens a lot when it comes to economics and public policy. This week, we discuss incorrect things that people tend to think are correct simply because they get repeated.

 

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https://interestingengineering.com/biomimicry-9-ways-engineers-have-been-inspired-by-nature

Foolishness of the Week

https://oceansasia.org/covid-19-facemasks/

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https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/government-cost-overruns

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If there’s a single core principle in economics, it’s that people respond to incentives. Whether governments intend to, imposing taxes on people causes those people to change their behaviors. Consequently, governments end up collecting less tax revenue than they anticipated and often cause people to waste their time and money attempting to avoid those taxes.

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Lottery and Saving

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/07/22/canada-lotto-OLG-Lotto-Max-Anne-Hickey-five-years/2681626992009/

https://www.olg.ca/en/lottery/play-lotto-max-encore/odds-and-payouts.html

Philip Morris

https://apnews.com/article/philip-morris-marlboro-britain-496ac5b559d6cfe5b85d56b39f383905

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/san-francisco-considering-congestion-tax-on-high-earning-drivers

Topic of the Week

https://www.thefemalecompany.com/tampon-book-en/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/

https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2013/04/16/177486309/how-taxes-and-moving-changed-the-sound-of-jazz

https://www.efile.com/unusual-strange-funny-taxes-throughout-the-world-and-history/

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Over the past century and a half, the federal government has quietly morphed from a government based on a constitution to a government based on a constitutional tradition. As it has done so, the Supreme Court has come to replace the Constitution as the limiting force on government. As the Supreme Court is, itself, part of the federal government, this transformation has fueled a runaway government that only ever gets larger and more powerful at the expense of the state and the people.

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https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/exxons-corporate-coup

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/the-new-real-estate-normal/ar-AAMir6k

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/branding-us-left-aoc-makes-push-into-political-merchandise-2021-07-19/

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Consumer prices have been rising more than usual since February. James and Ant discuss the nature of inflation, what causes it, and when it is and isn’t a bad thing.

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https://nypost.com/2021/07/11/hotel-maid-prevents-potential-shooting-at-mlb-all-star-game-report/

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Clark Neily, Rob McDonald, and Howard Baetjer join us for the second part of a free-wheeling conversation on government, history, and economics.

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https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases

https://www.showbiz411.com/2021/07/04/what-year-is-it-the-number-1-and-2-albums-on-itunes-are-40-queen-and-50-joni-mitchell-years-old

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https://www.foxnews.com/sports/nationals-cancel-freedom-fireworks-fourth-of-july-citys-noise-curfew

https://www.federalbaseball.com/2020/4/27/21227988/look-back-when-washington-nationals-wore-natinals-jerseys

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Historian Rob McDonald joins us to answer the questions, how is it that Thomas Jefferson came to be a slave owner and what could he have done to free his slaves. The answer, it turns out, is much more complicated than people tend to appreciate.

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Foolishness of the Week

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Topic of the Week

Rob McDonald

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/blog/the-american-revolution-professor-robert-mcdonalds-new-core-document-collection/

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Clark Neily, Rob McDonald, and Howard Baetjer join us for the first of a multi-part free-wheeling conversation on government, history, and economics.

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https://www.westpoint.edu/history/profile/robert_mcdonald

http://wp.towson.edu/baetjer/

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Bob Luddy, founder of Thales College joins us this week to talk about a revolutionary model for higher education that attempts to break the guild system that is holding back innovation. Thales College is refusing to pursue accreditation and will not accept federal funding. This will both keep it out from under the regulatory thumbs of both the government and the existing higher education system.

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https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/fbi-qanon-threat-assessment/index.html

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https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lester-holt-challenges-kamala-harris-on-claim-weve-been-to-the-border-you-havent/

Topic of the Week

https://www.thalescollege.org

https://www.thalesacademy.org/about/founder

https://www.neche.org/resources/standards-for-accreditation

https://www.msche.org/standards/

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Philosopher Michael Huemer joins us this week to talk about anarchy, chaos, and the fact that the government has a monopoly on power.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/05/el-salvador-becomes-the-first-country-to-adopt-bitcoin-as-legal-tender-.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2014-11-14/why-pay-15-million-for-a-white-canvas

Foolishness of the Week

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http://fakenous.net

https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Huemer/e/B001H6GHNU

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html

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