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Thinking Substance
By admin - Published on Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:26
"A human being is a thinking center and can originate thought. All the forms that a person fashions with his hands must first emerge from his thought. He cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.” Wallace D. Wattles
"Ten Scientific Discoveries From 2021 That May Lead to New Inventions"
By admin - Published on Sunday, 30 January 2022 19:01
"In science, inspiration can come from anywhere. A researcher might wonder about the thrust produced by butterfly wings as they flit through a meadow. Maybe watching squirrels navigate campus trees like parkour artists sparks curiosity about what goes through their furry little minds as they decide to jump from branch to branch."
"The Joyful Contrarianism of Gordon Tullock"
By Mike Webber - Published on Friday, 13 November 2020 10:07
"What kind of crank wants to put bayonets in steering wheels, praises political corruption as "working out rather well," and thinks that competition can be harmful and should be discouraged? Gordon Tullock, the late George Mason University professor of law and economics, made all those arguments with a (more or less) straight face, while also helping invent the then-new discipline of sociobiology. His insights have proven to be more durable, and more sensible, than his many critics expected."
Read more: https://reason.com/2019/09/09/the-joyful-contrarianism-of-gordon-tullock/
"The Looming Bank Collapse"
By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 13 November 2020 09:58
"After months of living with the coronavirus pandemic, American citizens are well aware of the toll it has taken on the economy: broken supply chains, record unemployment, failing small businesses. All of these factors are serious and could mire the United States in a deep, prolonged recession. But there’s another threat to the economy, too. It lurks on the balance sheets of the big banks, and it could be cataclysmic. Imagine if, in addition to all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, you woke up one morning to find that the financial sector had collapsed."
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronavirus-banks-collapse/612247/
"The real reason homes in Canada's big cities are unaffordable"
By admin - Published on Friday, 13 November 2020 09:37
"Why the difference? It’s not just location, location, location, argues a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
In ‘Gimme shelter: How high municipal housing charges and taxes decrease housing supply,’ Benjamin Dachis identifies “development charges, land transfer taxes, and murky density bonus payments as partial drivers of reduced supply and soaring house prices for would-be buyers.”
In a well-functioning housing market, the market price of a home is close to the cost of construction. If prices are higher than that, Dachis says, it is often because regulations or government policy is inhibiting new construction and creating an artificial shortage."
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