Episode 304: Good and Bad Regulations
Whether regulations are a good thing or a bad thing is a more complicated question than it appears. Government can regulate through law. But consumers can also regulate through choice. Some government regulations protect people from harm. But some purport to protect people from harm while actually protecting favored businesses from competition. In this live episode, recorded at Susquehanna University, we talk about the good and bad of regulation.
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Episode 304: Good and Bad Regulations
Whether regulations are a good thing or a bad thing is a more complicated question than it appears. Government can regulate through law. But consumers can also regulate through choice. Some government regulations protect people from harm. But some purport to protect people from harm while actually protecting favored businesses from competition. In this live episode, recorded at Susquehanna University, we talk about the good and bad of regulation.
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Student Loan Forgiveness Myth #3
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Student Loan Forgiveness Myth #2
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Episode 303: Ronald Reagan
Our greatest immediate concerns are the combination of inflation and recession, and the threat of war with Russia. The United States faced this combination of problems forty years ago. One important difference is that whereas we are politically divided today, then we were politically united. Going by electoral votes, Ronald Reagan was the last President who united the country, and the only President to unite it to a greater degree than George Washington.
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Episode 303: Ronald Reagan
Our greatest immediate concerns are the combination of inflation and recession, and the threat of war with Russia. The United States faced this combination of problems forty years ago. One important difference is that whereas we are politically divided today, then we were politically united. Going by electoral votes, Ronald Reagan was the last President who united the country, and the only President to unite it to a greater degree than George Washington.
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Student Loan Forgiveness Myth #1
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Episode 302: Population Growth
Last week, we talked about the world population crossing the 8 billion mark. This week, we look at a related topic, population growth. We find the interesting fact that population growth has slowed to near zero in the developed world, and that future population growth will come mostly from Africa.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/18/success/home-heating-prices/index.html
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https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution
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Episode 302: Population Growth
Last week, we talked about the world population crossing the 8 billion mark. This week, we look at a related topic, population growth. We find the interesting fact that population growth has slowed to near zero in the developed world, and that future population growth will come mostly from Africa.
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Antony Davies at LiberyCon 2022
The media is a profit-driven industry. As with all such industries, it endeavors to deliver the product customers demonstrate that they want. And what we have demonstrated we want is bad news. The result is a media that doesn't lie to us, but doesn't tell us the whole story either.
Episode 301: 8 Billion
The world population crossed the 8 billion mark this week. As far back as at least the late 1700s, experts were predicting that overpopulation would lead to mass starvation. Time and again, the experts end up being both right and wrong. They tend to be right in their projections that the world population is exploding, but they are always wrong about it leading to mass starvation. In fact, today’s 8 billion people live far better lives than did the 1 billion that lived back in the late 1700s.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan won a greater fraction of electoral votes (94%) than any President save for George Washington (who won 100%). Reagan was elected in a period of unprecedented inflation, recession, and looming global war. But America didn't embrace the Republican party - the House was majority Democrat during all of Reagan's eight years. They embraced Reagan himself. The key to his success was his optimism, not in politicians and government, but in people and markets.
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Episode 300: Economic Inequality in America
For our 300th episode, Senator Phil Gramm joins us to talk about his recent book on income inequality in America. The disturbing thing is that the government figures that people quote concerning income inequality exclude all the tax and transfer adjustments we deliberately make to mitigate income inequality.
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Episode 299: The Rights of the Dead
Do the dead have rights? This Halloween, philosopher James Stacey Taylor joins us for a live (heh) recording of Words & Numbers to take this question seriously.
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Episode 298: How do Treasury Bills Work?
People spend a lot of time talking about the debt and deficit, but most are unaware of the mechanics involved. This week, we cover some of those mechanics with a discussion of Treasury notes, bills, and bonds.
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Great Depression Myth #5
Myth: Bank mismanagement and profiteering were responsible for insolvency and bank runs.
Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?
This month, the world takes stock of international poverty, and James and Ant put poverty into perspective both across countries and across time.
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Episode 296: Think Like an Economist
All of economics boils down to a single fact: people respond to incentives. The first step to thinking like an economist is to take that fact seriously. Once you do, the world never looks the same.
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Episode 296: Think Like an Economist
All of economics boils down to a single fact: people respond to incentives. The first step to thinking like an economist is to take that fact seriously. Once you do, the world never looks the same.
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Episode 295: Must Government Control Money?
People - including some economists - are so used to governments establishing currencies that we are unaware that there are alternatives. Money is simply a tool that reduces the frictional costs of trading goods and services and of saving. Markets can evolve money in the same way that they evolve all manner of other solutions to even more complex problems. Prof. Lawrence H. White joins us this week to talk about alternatives to government-created currencies.
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