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The value of surprise, of the rare, and where to find it:
stinsonanalytical.com/2016/1…
1) Investors in firms with dual-class share structures are not forced either to hold or purchase the more widely held shares that have reduced or no voting rights. They purchase them in the full knowledge that the shares embody reduced property rights. Why?
opinion - Beyond the Rogers-Shaw deal: How, in public firms, the few hold power over the many - Allan C. Hutchinson theglobeandmail.com/business…
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'“Hypocrisy” ... is simply a display of power, so the more blatant it is the better. Hypocrisy is a concrete demonstration of living without having to fear consequences.'
theupheaval.substack.com/p/i…
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In the absence of a clear, consistent, credible and economically relevant monetary target, it is not possible for a CB to effectively coordinate monetary policy actions with market expectations/forecasts. ... zerohedge.com/markets/fed-ju…
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The only cartels that are economically discoordinating are cartels made up of governments (or government-supported enterprises).
zerohedge.com/geopolitical/u…
Another brilliant western stratagem: force/encourage non-western countries to hold more Russian gold.
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Alternative headline: France backs proposal to add oil shortages to sanction-driven high oil prices.
David Stinson retweeted
I was considering reselling my guns to the government but after a quick background check discovered they have a history of violence and instability.
A golden age for autodidacts not simply because of the greater access to information, but because allodidacts (to coin a term? - "other-taught") have generally abandoned reason.
An entire generation has squandered its opportunity to take advantage of what has indisputably been the golden age of the autodidact.
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The practice of anarcho-tyranny is continually refined.
While Trudeau and his team are talking about making communities safer with tougher gun laws, they still have Bill C-5 going through Parliament. This bill lowers sentences for a number of serious gun crimes including smuggling and trafficking. #cdnpoli
Gerard Casey is one of my favourite libertarians and he is now on twitter. I recommend you give him a follow.
"We're public guardians bold, yet wary
And of ourselves we take good care
To risk our precious lives we're chary
When anger looms, we're never there
But when we meet a helpless woman
Or little boys that do no harm
We run them in...
We show them we're the bold gendarmes."
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One interesting thing about Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron is that it was first published as early as 1961.
The greatest danger to society everywhere is the modern pathological fear of nature and our misguided view that we can optimize/correct nature if we only intervene extensively enough and use sufficient force. Wilful, essentially sociopathic, social destruction on an epic scale.
NEW - Mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policies have had damaging effects on public trust, vaccine confidence, political polarization, human rights, inequities, and social wellbeing, an analysis published in the British medical journal concludes.
gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e0086…
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