How Can the Fed Pay Dividends to Its Shareholders When It Has No Profits?
If the Fed really believes that its technical insolvency doesn’t matter, why is it intent on hiding the numbers?
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Quando não desistimos dos nossos propósitos já é … ILZIMAR DANTAS
Quando não desistimos dos nossos propósitos já é o início do que temos como meta e fé para realizar nossas pretenções… Confiar em Deus e esperar o tempo dEle para realização, é determinação e confiança que não estamos desamparados.
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Easing Zoning Restrictions Can Facilitate Rebuilding After the LA Fires
Homes burning in Pacific Palisades, CA. (Atlas Photo Archive/Cal Fire / Avalon/Newscom) Much of the debate over the horrible wildfires afflicting the Los Angeles areas focuses on issues outside my expertise. Thus, I’m not going to opine on such questions as the role of climate change in causing the fires, and whether federal, state, and local governments, have done a good job of running the LA fire department and managing wildfire risk moe generally. There is enough ill-informed […]
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Cato Scholars Available to Speak About Venezuelan Politics
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is set to begin his third six-year term as the country’s leader after he’s sworn in Friday. This comes despite credible evidence indicating his opponent, Edmundo González, won the election, and as hundreds of people gathered to protest his regime. The opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, came out of hiding to join the demonstrations but her team says she was “violently intercepted.” The Venezuelan government has denied the allegations. Daniel Raisbeck, a policy analyst […]
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Cato on the Presidential Agenda
President-elect Donald Trump held a news conference for more than an hour Tuesday ahead of his January 20th inauguration. He covered a range of topics that our scholars can speak on. Below are some articles and commentary our scholars have published in relation to some of the topics the president-elect spoke about: Acquiring Greenland/Panama Canal: Forget Annexing Greenland, Start Breaking up America Investing in America/Tariffs: More Foreign Investment, Less Tariffs and Subsidies Electric Vehicles: Electric Vehicle Subsidies and […]
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Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Becerra v. Braidwood Management
Most Supreme Court watchers today were focused on the oral argument in the TikTok case, but that’s not all that was going on at One First Street. Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases: Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Zuch. The first two of these are grants from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the first may […]
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Brickbat: Spiked
Prosecutors in Florida have charged John Trevor Steele, a physical education teacher at Jennings Middle School, with felony child abuse. A 12-year-old student playing with a volleyball accidentally struck Steele in the chin with it. “In response, Steele began yelling at the victim, moved toward her, placed his foot behind her, and used his left arm to shove her onto her back as he leaned over the victim and continued to yell,” according to a press release from […]
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Geoffrey Hinton on how AI will increase wealth gap
Crossposts not allowed so credit to https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/F7K51IMvUP submitted by /u/harstar0 [link] [comments]
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Facebook’s New Free Speech Policy Shows Business Getting Back to Business
Big tech seems to be getting out of the censorship business, and it’s about time. After years of increasingly awkward attempts to placate demands from activist groups and the government to suppress allegedly hateful speech and an amorphous category of “disinformation,” Facebook owner Meta is joining X (formerly Twitter) in substituting user-generated community notes on contested posts for top-down muzzling. There’s no doubt that political shifts in the U.S. heavily influenced the rediscovery of respect for free speech. […]
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