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People hear things that sound right or interesting, and then repeat them without checking the facts. This is how urban legends are created. On this week’s episode, we discuss some economics urban legends.

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The Platform

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In Time

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Your Papers!https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56460329

Foolishness of the Week

Sue Bird vs. LeBron James

https://admin.fee.org/media/39317/sue-bird-vs-lebron-james.png

Topic of the Week: Urban Legends

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In this multi-part episode, James and Ant answer listener questions.

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COVID Testing

https://hidrb.com

Philadelphia Inquirer Comments

https://www.inquirer.com/about/philadelphia-inquirer-comments-section-changes-20210201.html

Vaccine and Blood Clotting

https://apnews.com/article/germany-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clotting-0ab2c4fe13370c96c873e896387eb92f

Kudos of the Week

https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-legislators-want-to-rename-highway-after-prince/600034298/

Topic of the Week: Your Questions!

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In this multi-part episode, James and Ant answer listener questions.

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Cuttlefish

https://www.sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-children

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/541882-cronkite-signed-off-40-years-ago-it-seems-like-an-eon-in-news-standards

Foolishness of the Week

https://apnews.com/article/mr-potato-head-goes-gender-neutral-d3c178f2b9b0c424ed814657be41a9d8

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/07/qanon-trap-violence-474034

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In this multi-part episode, James and Ant answer listener questions.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-01/richest-100-americans-would-pay-78-billion-under-warren-tax

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/971958260/scientists-talked-to-people-in-their-dreams-they-answered

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/youtube-ai-blocked-chess-channel-after-confusing-black-and-white-for-racist-slurs-3454316.html

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Former Supervisory Special Agent Martin Gilvary joins us this week to give us an inside perspective on policing in the US.

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https://giphy.com/gifs/rickroll-rick-astley-never-gonna-give-you-up-Vuw9m5wXviFIQ

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/i-will-not-make-happen-biden-declines-democrats-call-cancel-n1258069

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2021/01/13/heres-why-biden-cant-cancel-student-loans/

https://apnews.com/article/1st-cloned-endagered-species-ferret-23cde3908e496692648dc28d4b8121ee

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/11/churchill-white-supremacist-leading-empire-worse-nazis-claims/

Topic of the Weekhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/check-your-bias/id1500221730?i=1000466477789

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In this second of a two part series, Max Borders joins us to discuss his recent book, After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals. Despite the title and the subject matter, it is an honest but upbeat analysis of political, economic, and cultural changes that have put us on a path to transformation.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/02/01/oregon-decriminalizes-all-drugs-offers-treatment-instead-jail-time/4311046001/

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2018/03/more-imprisonment-does-not-reduce-state-drug-problems

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2681083/

https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-informant-panic-ruining-friendships-042446613.html

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-chris-cuomo-andrew-cuomo-nursing-home-scandal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9256103/Chris-Cuomo-fire-saying-brothers-COVID-deaths-coverup-scandal.html

Topic of the WeekAfter CollapseThe Social SingularityFuture Frontiers

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Max Borders joins us to discuss his recent book, After Collapse: The End of America and the Rebirth of Her Ideals. Despite the title and the subject matter, it is an honest but upbeat analysis of political, economic, and cultural changes that have put us on a path to transformation.

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30 minutes’ worth of Googling Krogerhttps://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/supermarkets-grocery-stores-united-states/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/999141/gross-margin-of-kroger/

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/537002-kroger-closing-two-stores-after-city-orders-higher-pandemic-pay-for-workers

https://www.workforce.com/news/labor-and-benefits-expenses-in-supermarkets

http://s1.q4cdn.com/137099145/files/doc_downloads/irw/fact_books/2016-PDF-Fact-Book.pdf

MOMA

https://dnyuz.com/2021/02/05/facing-deficit-met-considers-selling-art-to-help-pay-the-bills/

Foolishness of the Week

https://apnews.com/article/house-gop-votes-greene-d00c46241478d39db3996a36f5cbf91e

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/greene-blasts-morons-who-stripped-her-of-committee-posts-hours-after-expressing-contrition/ar-BB1dqCPl

Topic of the WeekAfter CollapseThe Social SingularityFuture Frontiers

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Federal policies have been hitting small businesses particularly hard. From the lockdown to heightened IRS scrutiny to an increased minimum wage to an expanded estate tax, many federal policies harm small businesses more than corporations and so jeopardizes the livelihoods of almost half of American workers.

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Chick-fil-A

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/south-carolina-chick-fil-a-manager-covid-19-vaccine-drive-thru

Dodger Stadium

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Foolishness of the Week

Impeachment 1

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/us/politics/trump-butch-bowers-impeachment.html

Impeachment 2https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/30/politics/butch-bowers-deborah-barbier-trump-impeachment-team/index.html

Topic of the Week

The War on Small Businesseshttps://insidesources.com/the-war-on-small-business/

Minimum Wage Costs 1.3 Million Jobshttps://reason.com/2019/07/08/cbo-says-15-federal-minimum-wage-will-cost-1-3-million-jobs/

List of Minimum Wage Peer-Reviewed Researchhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1fbSTGYQP5ObsEMjgbDWB2W8pgz64XZS5/view?usp=sharing

The Economics of the Estate Tax

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SrMWCAq-HfJdRGBjjQ7kr-KMTGlJjKvX/view?usp=sharing

Survey of Businesses Owners on the Effect of the Estate Taxhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-6248.1996.00303.x Union Contracts Tied to Minimum Wagehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/edrensi/2017/01/19/why-it-is-that-unions-fund-the-fight-for-15/

States to Tax Stimulus Loan Forgiveness

https://advocacy.sba.gov/2020/11/03/some-states-may-tax-forgiven-ppp-loan-proceeds/

IRS Targeting Small Businesses

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/tax-compliance/news/21205514/irs-expected-to-audit-more-small-businesses-in-2021

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This week we discuss a smorgasbord of topics related to the division of power among the branches: pardons, judicial review, agencies, and bureaucracy.

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Foolishness of the Week

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/01/21/covid-vaccines-coronavirus-internet-ads/

Topic of the Week: Powers of U.S. Government’s Branches

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Episode 206: A Dutch immigrant gives us a view of the United States from the outside, and a view of the Netherlands from the inside: immigration, taxes, social safety nets, and community.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/3rd-antitrust-lawsuit-hits-google-447741

https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265773/market-share-of-the-most-popular-social-media-websites-in-the-us

https://www.wired.com/2002/11/u-s-v-microsoft-timeline/

https://www.kwtx.com/2021/01/15/3-with-covid-19-owe-lives-to-girl-17-who-smelled-smoke-from-early-morning-fire/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/17/live-politics-updates-joe-biden-inauguration-donald-trump-impeachment/4196264001/

Topic of the Week

Bass Van Der Vossen

https://www.basvandervossen.com

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/bas-van-der-vossen

https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Openness-Freedom-Solution-Poverty/dp/0190462957

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