Bank runs, green investing, doctor shortage in Europe, are people getting dumber? Foolishness of the week: 09:07 Main episode: 11:32

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Foolishness of the Week https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132

Episode Topic https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/federal-reserve-meeting-interest-rate-march-2023/card/pacwest-stock-falls-premarket-after-reporting-deposit-fall-5iilc6yQ4WDh3QhQIvPm https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/ https://reason.com/2023/03/21/bidens-first-veto-protects-and-promotes-esg/ https://hbr.org/2022/03/an-inconvenient-truth-about-esg-investing https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ESPESG https://marketrealist.com/p/what-is-esg/ https://studyfinds.org/americans-iq-test-scores-drop/ https://www.abokifx.com/news/europe-is-running-out-of-doctors-and-nurses-who-warns-bloomberg?type=market

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Episode 321: Space and Property

As humans venture out into space - not just under the auspices of government, but now as private citizens - establishing and adjudicating property rights will become ever more important. The treaty under which countries operate was signed back in the 1960s. It says that government may not lay claim to anything beyond Earth, but is completely silent about private citizens. Foolishness of the week: 07:08 Main episode: 09:51

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Foolishness of the Week https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Moves-Games-Classic-Ouija/dp/B00EFDXAB4/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/7574259/girls-hospital-ouija-board-school/

Episode Topic https://news.usni.org/2023/03/09/chinese-rocket-that-delivered-military-spy-satellites-breaks-up-over-texas https://news.yahoo.com/war-space-u-officials-debating-120515128.html

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Episode 320: Politics, Anarchy, and Baseball

Economist, former mayor, self-professed anarchist, and baseball fan Randy Simmons joins us this week to talk about government and politics through the eyes of someone who is both a skeptic of government and who served in elected office. We recorded this episode in January, but saved it for the opening of baseball season. You’ll hear why in the episode.

Foolishness of the week: 10:18 Main episode: 14:21

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Foolishness of the Week

https://news.yahoo.com/cuba-holds-stacked-election-amid-120000306.html

Episode Topic https://theconversation.com/profiles/randy-simmons-141612

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Politics-Roots-Government-Failure/dp/1598130420

https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Unbound-Bureaucracy-Environment-Independent/dp/1598132288

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Many listeners have asked that we do an episode on the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and its implications for the rest of the banking sector. Peter Earle, economist and former Wall Street trader, joins us to talk about what happened, how it might have been avoided, what comes next, and whether the rest of the banking system is in danger.

Foolishness of the week: 04:10 Main episode: 05:50

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Foolishness of the Week

https://news.yahoo.com/l-riders-bail-metro-trains-120007450.html

Episode Topic

https://www.aier.org/people/peter-c-earle/

https://thestack.technology/silicon-valley-bank-crisis/

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Foolishness of the week: 12:19 Main episode: 16:54

People’s view of the past is biased because we tend to forget the bad things. The (inexplicable to an economist) tendency of young people to think that like in the 1950s was better than life today is one example. This week, we talk about this tendency to nostalgia and how it shows up in pop-culture.

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https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/truth-justice-and-the-american-way/

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Words and Numbers is a weekly half-hour podcast that explores current events through the eyes of an economist and political scientist. The show is an alternative to the shouting heads that occupy most public discussions. We follow evidence and reason where they lead for a non-partisan  and entertaining approach to topics relating to politics, economics, and government.

Foolishness of the week: 07:11 Main episode: 11:20

Economic historian Phil Magness joins us to talk about how the popular 1619 Project gets both the history and the relationship between slavery and capitalism wrong. This is the second of a two-part episode.

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https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=tesla+stock+quote&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Foolishness of the Week

https://reason.com/2023/02/27/new-yorks-message-to-gun-owners-you-can-have-a-carry-permit-good-luck-using-it/

Episode Topic

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https://www.amazon.com/1619-Project-Critique-Phillip-Magness/dp/1630692018

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Foolishness of the week: 04:55 Main episode: 07:34

Economic historian Phil Magness joins us to talk about how the popular 1619 Project gets both the history and the relationship between slavery and capitalism wrong. This is the first of a two-part episode.

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https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-removing-internet-explorer-from-pcs/

Foolishness of the Week

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/roald-dahl-controversy-changes-salman-rushdie-willy-wonka-1235333536/

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/after-roald-dahl-james-bond-books-edited-to-remove-offensive-references-3815772

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/books/roald-dahl-books-changes.html

Episode Topic

Phil Magness https://www.aier.org/people/phillip-w-magness/

https://www.amazon.com/1619-Project-Critique-Phillip-Magness/dp/1630692018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-1619-project-vindicates-capitalism-hulu-systemic-racism-jim-crow-reparations-fha-labor-union-civil-rights-d9365c71

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Foolishness of the Week: 06:19 Main episode: 07:37 As recently as two months ago, many economists were concerned that significant inflation was here to stay. But last month’s data show that inflation is back near zero. Whether this is good news or simply a brief respite, we won’t know for another few months.

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https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/scientists-switch-off-autism-using-3-epilepsy-drug-study/

Foolishness of the Week

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There is much evidence pointing to a relationship between increased trade and improved socio-economic factors like income, poverty, equality, and the environment. But there’s a disturbing trend afoot. World trade (measured as exports and imports as a fraction of world GDP) is down 5% since 2011, and US trade is down 20% over the same period. Worse, prior to 2011, US trade was on a solid upward trajectory for a couple of decades. From 2011 on, had US trade continued to grow at its historical rate, it would be 30% more today than it is.

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