Euthyphro & Damocles reign. Water politics. Wages should be less sticky. Higher edu: subsidized to a negative externality & holding cell for 20yrolds
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Michael Pipich || Owning Bipolar

*Bipolar 1 is >=1 manic episode over 7 days. Bipolar 2 is shorter time of mania, 4 days, but also ANY depression *

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Michael Pipich || Owning Bipolar

Bipolar 2 is diagnosed from shorter time of mania, but at least one depressed session of any length.

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How U.S. Treasury Is Fighting The Fed | Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Miran on Treasury’s $800 Billion of “Stealth QE” via “Activist Treasury Issuance” (ATI)

N.Roubini: “Too many short-terms US T-Bills going out the door = US Treasury doing Backdoor QE, overriding Fed tight policy”

3min
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How the ‘Open Fields Doctrine’ Nullifies the Fourth Amendment

*Kentucky had an Open Fields doctrine before it went Federal. Thanks Prohibition! *

2min
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Bryan Caplan - Moral Crusades and The Hard Problem of Kindness

*Compare Minimum Wage studies against study on Asparagus price floors *

3min
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Certificate of Need and Government-Run Health Care

Industrial Policy Analogy: Certificate of Need Laws, but it’s start-up restaurants vs incumbent Big Chains

2min
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Amendment 1 could let public sector unions hold oversight hostage for more loot. Qualified immunity and unsupported pensions were bad enough. #Rentseeking
Illinois Handed Immense Power to Government Unions, So How's It Going?

Illinois Public Sector Unions can now contract away, e.g. Police Body Cameras, & Lawmakers can't force oversight

5min
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Politicians turncoat all the time. What's more unexpected? Plus, why Welch has less respect for Mitt Romney b/c of his new book.
#428 - Poundtowns and Political Pilgrims

Art Laffer did more MAGA contortions than Romney, but does the public care?

11min
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Who Is To Blame For Poverty?

Scapegoating Elites for Social Problems: Tyler Cowen’s Parable of the Banana Subsidy

2min
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Vandals and the Church of Universal Coverage

“I’d rather spend resources complaining about healthcare than getting healthcare.” Signaling costs *are* costs

3min
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When activism hobbles journalism, when regulation is more discretionary than formulaic, when data is buried by brutal emotion… AND MORE!
RICO Suave

The Mistakes of a Journalist covering “Ghost Guns”

10min
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The assumption that bribery will influence policy, even if unfounded, leads to wasted resources b/c you can’t calibrate too little or too much bribery.
They Saved Jonah’s Brain

Unfalsifible Effectiveness of Lobbying: Clay Davis, Hunter Biden, & J.Abramoff

5min
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