Episode 356: Social Distancing and Masks: Again?
A new outbreak of a communicable disease in China has officials there calling for masks and social distancing. This week, we talk about what lessons we learned from the last go around and how people might respond in this country to a reprise of social distancing and masking.
Foolishness of the Week: 07:23 Main episode: 11:23
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Quick Hits
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4288044-oregon-just-dropped-all-graduation-standards-failing-all-of-its-students-in-the-name-of-equity/
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/one-supreme-court-case-could-mess-up-chunks-of-the-tax-code-680a9ba6
Foolishness of the Week
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1730211325383434419
https://nypost.com/2023/03/20/bidens-twitter-account-fact-checked-for-dubious-claim-about-the-taxes-billionaires-pay/
Topic of the Week https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/chinas-mystery-virus-sees-masks-31550470/
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Episode 354: Academic Fraud
Three former professors discuss the fraud that universities are perpetrating on students and taxpayers..
Foolishness of the Week: 11:59 Main episode: 15:20
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https://www.aier.org/people/phillip-w-magness/
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Episode 352: Fraud, Fairness, and Value
An elderly couple, an antiques dealer, and an African mask spark a conversation about fraud, fairness, and value.
Foolishness of the Week: 11:00 Main episode: 13:14
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Quick Hits
https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/11/02/california-regulators-put-off-a-decision-on-solar-rules-again
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67295526
Foolishness of the Week
https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/canadian-food-prices-passing-the-depreciated-buck/
Topic of the Week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/31/french-couple-go-to-court-for-share-of-rare-african-masks-sale-price
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Episode 349: Should Experts Dictate What Teachers Teach?
More than a decade ago, experts decided to change how students are taught to read. Without testing whether the new method worked or, apparently, even checking in with actual teachers, the experts forced the change. What resulted was a generation of children with reduced reading abilities. The experts have now reversed course. People make mistakes like this all the time. When the people who are making the decisions are the same people who live with the consequences of the decisions, errors get detected and fixed relatively quickly. There's nothing wrong with experts weighing in on the best way to do things. But when those experts are allowed to impose their wills on others, the people who live with the consequences are no longer the people making the decisions. What often results is decades of living with "solutions" that do more harm than good.
Main episode: 06:47
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Quick Hits https://phys.org/news/2023-10-cranial-traumas-cities-built-violence.html https://genderdata.worldbank.org/indicators/vc-ihr-psrc-p5
Topic of the Week
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/repairing-the-damage-columbias-teachers-college-did-to-american-kids-will-take-years/
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Episode 347: Workplace Harassment with Vince White
Attorney Vince White joins us this week. Vince’s law firm does more workplace harassment and sexual discrimination cases than any other US law firm. His firm also handled some of the Harvey Weinstein cases. Interestingly, Vince is James’ former student.
Foolishness of the week: 05:30 Main episode: 08:39
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Quick Hits
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/for-first-time-water-produced-by-sunlight-to-be-even-cheaper-than-tap-water/
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/01/student-loan-payments-october-2023
Foolishness of the Week
https://nbcmontana.com/news/connect-to-congress/meghan-markle-considering-run-for-sen-dianne-feinsteins-senate-seat-sources-say-duke-and-duchess-of-sussex-house-of-windsor-royal-family-prince-harry-gavin-newsom-california-los-angeles-family-leave-gun-safety-politics
Topic of the Week
https://www.nycjobattorney.com
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Episode 345: Did Masks Save Lives?
Economist Bryan McCannon gives us two things to think about this week: his research into whether covid mask mandates saved lives, and that journal editors were afraid to publish his results.
Foolishness of the week: 08:04 Main episode: 11:49
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/california-fast-food-workers-20-minimum-wage-new-103099258
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/cost-of-living-index-by-state
https://apnews.com/article/climate-oil-gas-california-lawsuit-newsom-212d6d9873352f28094173a1974e3d90
Foolishness of the Week
https://www.wbez.org/stories/how-a-city-run-grocery-store-in-chicago-could-work/91365f98-25de-4cd5-80e9-eae3fa627610
Topic of the Week
Mask mandates
https://sites.google.com/site/bryancmccannon
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Episode 344: Burning Man
Burning Man, a modern day Woodstock, occurs each year in the desert. This year brought 87,000 people together to live, if only for a few days, in a cooperative nirvana. We take some time to look at the Burning Man principles for living and ask whether they make any sense.
Foolishness of the week: 05:21 Main episode: 11:44
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Quick Hits
https://www.iflscience.com/linguists-speak-of-a-new-language-dialect-evolving-in-the-us-70586
Foolishness of the Week
https://sourcenm.com/briefs/n-m-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-gun-violence/
https://ibis.doh.nm.gov/indicator/view/DthRateLdgCause.Year.Cause.html
https://everystat.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Gun-Violence-in-New-Mexico-2.9.2021.pdf
Topic of the Week
https://survival.burningman.org/culture/the-10-principles/
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/the-wonderful-weird-economics-of-burning-man/376108/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/06/burning-man-2023-photos-nevada-desert/70774615007/
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/business/burning-man-billionaires/index.html
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Episode 343: What About Unions?
Union membership in the private sector has been declining for decades, while union membership in the public sector has been increasing. This is consistent with workers voluntarily choosing not to unionize to the point that unions must turn to government jobs where it is easier to force workers to unionize.
Foolishness of the week: 04:20 Main episode: 10:03
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Quick Hits
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/climate-change-activists-blockaded-burning-man-accuse-police-excessive-rcna102370
Foolishness of the Week
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/pope-francis-conservatives-united-states-rcna102452
Topic of the Week
Declining union membership
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195339/number-of-union-members-in-the-us-since-2000/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/195349/union-membership-rate-of-employees-in-the-us-since-2000/
Union workers earn around 20% more than non-union workers
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1374865/earnings-union-membership-race-us/
33% of public sector jobs are unionized vs 6% of private sector jobs
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
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Episode 342: The Start of the Season
The Republicans held their first primary debate. What they said wasn’t interesting. What they didn’t say was.
Foolishness of the week: 07:00 Main episode: 09:10
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Quick Hits https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4171633-ceiling-fan-efficiency-rule-draws-ire-of-house-republicans/
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/urban-doom-loop-could-pose-105045782.html
Foolishness of the Week https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-advisers-bristle-newsoms-plan-debate-desantis-rcna101799
Topic of the Week
GOP Primary Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccPDCzJuLgI
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Episode 341: Strangers With Candy
Economist Art Carden joins us this week to talk about his popular book, Strangers With Candy.
Foolishness of the week: 04:27 Main episode: 18:01
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Quick Hits
https://fortune.com/2023/07/06/wealthy-leaving-china-education-school-sisb-stock-surge-singapore-thailand/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/372900/number-of-chinese-students-that-study-in-the-us/
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/map?geozone=world&page=map&year=2020&countries=THA,CHN,USA
https://reason.com/2023/08/21/chinas-industrial-policy-is-failing-will-american-politicians-take-notice/
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/21/american-workers-are-demanding-almost-80000-a-year-to-take-a-new-job.html
Foolishness of the Week https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1693274613541671350
Topic of the Week
Strangers With Candy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733658459?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
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Episode 340: Wrongfully Convicted
Michael Semanchik, Director of the Innocence Center, joins us to talk about freeing the wrongfully imprisoned, and reforming the criminal justice system to reduce the likelihood of wrongful convictions.
Foolishness of the week: 06:13 Main episode: 07:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/07/hawaii-news/emergency-declaration-prohibits-price-gouging-lawyer-says/
https://www.outkick.com/oliver-anthony-rich-men-north-of-richmond-song-lyrics-viral-video/
Foolishness of the Week
https://sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/san-francisco-robotaxi-cruise-debauchery/
Topic of the Week
Mike Semanchik https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-semanchik/
California Innocence Project Podcast https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/cipp/
Innocence Center www.innocencecenter.org
National exoneration registry https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx
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Episode 339: The Meanings of Words
The point of communicating is to transfer thoughts from one person’s brain to another. In most forms of human communication, words are the tools we use. But if the two people don’t share common definitions of words, then communication becomes clouded. The most extreme case is when two people speak very different languages. But miscommunication often happens when both people speak the same language. If we hope to resolve, or at least come to peaceful disagreement, over topics from gun control to gender, we have to make a concerted effort to agree on definitions before debating the topics. Main episode: 12:34
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Quick Hits http://www.worldgovernmentbonds.com/credit-rating/united-states/
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Episode 338: Age, Ability, and Incumbency
The Constitution sets lower age limits for members of Congress and the President, but sets no upper limits. Before modern medicine, this wasn’t as much of a problem as people’s bodies tended not to outlive their minds. Today, it’s becoming a problem. Foolishness of the week: 05:30 Main episode: 09:35
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Topic of the Week
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_who_did_not_win_reelection
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Political_Science_and_Civics/Attenuated_Democracy_(Hubert)/08%3A_Electoral_Politics_and_Public_Opinion/8.07%3A_Chapter_55-_The_Advantages_of_Incumbency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TR/2012/lr5a4.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-confused-dianne-feinstein-tried-to-give-a-speech-in-the-middle-of-a-senate-hearing-vote-and-was-told-to-just-say-aye-instead/ar-AA1ernV5
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-fell-recently-dc-airport-prior-wednesdays-freeze-rcna96568
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/26/mcconnell-abruptly-leaves-press-conference-after-feeling-light-headed-00108318
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/26/mcconnell-press-conference-freezing-lightheaded
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1994/93-1456
Quick Hits
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/mosquitoes-carry-west-nile-are-becoming-resistant-insecticides-cdc-say-rcna96867
Foolishness of the Week
https://www.cornelwest24.org/press_release_073123
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Episode 337: The (Hollow) Sound of Freedom
James and I both went to see the recent box office hit, The Sound of Freedom. I liked it. James didn’t. But we both were appalled at what appear to be seriously distorted claims made in the film about human trafficking.
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Topic of the Week Human trafficking defined https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-trafficking-in-persons-report/
World data on human trafficking (p. 78)
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Trafficking-in-Persons-Report-2023.pdf
US data on human trafficking
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2022
Fraction of children in human trafficking (p. 48)
https://www.unodc.org/documents/Global_Report_on_TIP.pdf
Drug trafficking statistics
https://www.ussc.gov/research/quick-facts/drug-trafficking
Critique of Sound of Freedom
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sound-of-freedom-child-trafficking-experts-1234786352/
The claimed stats at the end of Sound of Freedom
https://www.looper.com/1343442/sound-of-freedom-ending-explained/
Quick Hits
AI and telemarketers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457
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Episode 336: A Fireside Chat Without the Fire
Howie Baetjer, Rob McDonald, James Stacey Taylor, and Clark Neily join us to talk about gun rights, canceling the Founders, and animal rights. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com
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Encore Episode 335: When Benevolence Backfires
This encore performance is of our most popular episode. This episode, in which we explore unintended consequences, first aired in September of 2019. Foolishness of the week: 06:19 Main episode: 10:54
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Quick Hits https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/maryland-sk-court-case-teen-sexting-child-pornography.html
https://www.blackbusiness.com/2019/05/roy-allela-black-engineer-invents-gloves-turn-sign-language-audible-speech.html
Foolishness of the Week https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/
https://reason.com/2019/08/28/de-blasio-advisory-group-wants-to-abolish-gifted-classes-in-nyc-public-schools/
Episode Topic https://www.wired.com/2008/12/a380-is-so-quie/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-political-assault-on-paydays-1464909417 https://www.nber.org/papers/w6670 https://berniesanders.com/issues/the-green-new-deal/
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Episode 334: Live at Brookfield Academy, pt.2
James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers, Foolishness of the week: 06:41 Main episode: 03:53
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Episode 333: Live at Brookfield Academy, pt.1
James and Ant field questions from students at Brookfield Academy on possible fixes for Social Security, the politics of taxation and spending, and how we’ve broken the separation of powers, Foolishness of the week: 06:41 Main episode: 08:18
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Episode 332: Should Speech be Free?
This week’s episode is a live recording of a panel discussion on free speech at the University of Washington. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com
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Episode 331: A Fireside Chat
This week, historian Rob McDonald, Constitutional scholar and lawyer Clark Neily, philosophy James Stacey Taylor, and economist Howard Baetjer join James and Ant around a fire to discuss the indictments against former President Donald Trump. To accommodate the extended conversation, this week we forego our usual quick hits and foolishness of the week. We think you'll agree that, regardless of on which side you fall on the topic, the whole business with Donald Trump qualifies as foolishness.
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Episode 329: The Chevron Doctrine
For decades and where the law is ambiguous, courts have invoked the Chevron doctrine in allowing regulatory agencies to decide for themselves the meaning of the ambiguous language. Unsurprisingly, agencies invariably interpret ambiguous language in their own favors. The Supreme Court recently agreed to reconsider the Chevron doctrine. Overturning the doctrine could call into question decades’ worth of regulatory rulings. Clark Neily joins us this week to discuss. Foolishness of the week: 06:10 Main episode: 08:37
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Quick Hits https://dailyhive.com/toronto/the-anarchist-toronto-cafe-permanently-closing
https://www.youtube.com/live/-B-9XOlMCks?feature=share
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-744499
Foolishness of the Week https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/toddler-in-north-korea-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-after-parents-caught-with-bible/ar-AA1bQbss
Topic of the Week
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Episode 328: Artificial Intelligence
People are saying that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs and enslave humans. We’ve heard this many times before. Before artificial intelligence, people said it about computers. Before computers, they said it about machines. Not only were people wrong before, they were spectacularly wrong. They’re likely wrong again. Foolishness of the week: 09:15 Main episode: 10:16
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Foolishness of the Week
Topic of the Week
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/should-the-laborer-fear-machines/380476/
Labor productivity (output per hour per worker) Up 2% per year since 1950 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS85006092 Employees 1939: 30 million Today: 156 million https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS Employment population ratio (employees per people 25 to 54 years old) 1950s: 65% Today: 81% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060 Real disposable personal income Almost quadruple today what it was in the 1950s https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0 Words & Numbers Backstage https://www.facebook.com/groups/130029457649243/
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Episode 325: Central Bank Digital Currencies
One of the things that cryptocurrency has done is to prompt central banks to develop their own digital currencies. These will combine the downsides of private digital currencies with the downsides of government currencies. Foolishness of the week: 08:21 Main episode: 09:58
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https://apnews.com/article/drug-shortages-adderall-ozempic-855632a04a17c2bf75b6a89e4c08ef79
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Episode 325: Central Bank Digital Currencies
One of the things that cryptocurrency has done is to prompt central banks to develop their own digital currencies. These will combine the downsides of private digital currencies with the downsides of government currencies. Foolishness of the week: 08:21 Main episode: 09:58
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Episode 324: How Much Do Americans Earn?
The question, “How much do Americans earn?” seems simple. But there are so many moving parts below the surface that there is no single answer. For example, by “earn” do we mean “money from a job” or are we including interest income. What about Social Security retirement benefits? What about government welfare benefits? When we say “Americans” do we mean individual workers, or families, or households? When we say “How much” do we mean the average number or the median? Foolishness of the week: 02:43 Main episode: 06:00
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https://globalnews.ca/news/9642634/psac-stike-remote-work/
https://www.dw.com/en/german-editor-fired-over-ai-created-schumacher-interview/a-65405192
Foolishness of the Week
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/opinions/income-tax-wealthy-hodge/index.html
Episode Topic (Numbers are for 2021) Personal income: Income earned by all people from all sources Median personal income: $38,000 Mean personal income: $57,000 Usual Full-Time Earnings: Wages and salaries earned by workers who are employed full-time Median usual earnings: $56,000 Family income: Income earned from all sources by households of two or more related people Median family income: $89,000 Mean family income: $121,000 Household income: Income earned from all sources by households of one or more people Median household income: $71,000 Market income: Household income earned from market activities only Median market Income: $64,000 Per-capita GDP: All the income generated in the economy divided by the population Per-capita GDP: $70,000 https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/families/households.html https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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