“Experts” Don’t Know How Ignorant They Are https://mises.org/mises-wire/experts-dont-know-how-ignorant-they-are By Gary Galles > The central philosophy of progressivism is that we should be governed by so-called experts, especially entrenched within an unelected bureaucracy. What happens, however, when the “experts” are just plain wrong? https://stacker.news/items/1265021

War, Taxes, and the National Science Foundation https://mises.org/misesian/war-taxes-and-national-science-foundation By Peter G. Klein > Scientists have been transformed into grant hunters, and that gives them lots of incentives to lobby for even more federal funding. So, scientists themselves are among the most up in arms at the proposed cuts to federal research funding among universities today. https://stacker.news/items/1265001

Trump Discounting China's Soy Imports while Providing a Crutch for Argentina https://mises.org/mises-wire/america-hurts-farmers-and-discounts-chinas-soy-imports-while-providing-crutch-argentina By Weimin Chen > Once again, the Trump administration’s “dealmaking” on international trade has blown up, this time pulling the rug from under US soybean farmers. This isn’t the first trade policy fiasco, nor will it be the last. https://stacker.news/items/1264589

NBA Redraft: 2019 This will be the last of our redraft series, barring possible bonus drafts. The Pelicans are picking first after trading Anthony Davis to the Lakers (that sounds familiar). They've got their eye on Duke phenom Zion Williamson. After seeing how the early careers have gone for the players in this class, who should they take? https://stacker.news/items/1264441

NFL Cross-Offs: Week 7 We forgot to cross someone off on the pod last week, but it would have been one of the Cardinals or the Browns. So, this week, we'll pick one of them and cross off one more team (could be the other one of those two). **Cross-Offs So Far** Week 1: Saints Week 2: Dophins Week 3: Titans Week 4: Jets Week 5: Raiders Week 6: Browns or Cards Who's your week 7 pick? https://stacker.news/items/1263559

Silver: London Calling https://mises.org/power-market/silver-london-calling By Douglas French > The white metal’s price chaos of the last week has many similarities with the 1980 Hunt Brothers’ squeeze. https://stacker.news/items/1262785

We Have Not Properly Reckoned with the Economic Insanity of 2020 https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-have-not-properly-reckoned-economic-insanity-2020 By Connor O’Keeffe > The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors. https://stacker.news/items/1262740

What Will the Next Gold Bust Look Like? https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-will-next-gold-bust-look By Brendan Brown > There have been four gold busts under the fiat dollar money regimes since the “freeing” of the gold price in March 1968. Will the current gold boom end in a similar bust? https://stacker.news/items/1261681

Is there enough zinc in the solar system to make 3700 trillion pennies?

We'd never solve any crimes if criminals stopped dropping their pristine passports at the scene.

More is spent on alcohol and more damage done because of it

Yep, very similar situations

Give Kinsella's work a shot and see if you still feel the same way He pretty thoroughly demolishes any case for IP, imho.

Of course, Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe But, a deeper cut is Stephan Kinsella, who I think articulates the philosophy more clearly than anyone else. He's best known for his work arguing against the validity of intellectual property, but he's written and spoken on pretty much everything.

How Our Money Impacts Health and Why Sound Money Could Transform Well-Being https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpl2lsdahs0sx4zpmkf5d0yd23xs2ahes9y560jxkcu2wulmmv2dzqq245u2jta3h532yxymng7zwf43j64jvf5ej6qlqcc7 https://stacker.news/items/1259527

What happened with Alby?

Not mine, though I've been open for business all day

It doesn't inherently follow that it would help make anything cheaper. The US military isn't exactly known for its wise stewardship of resources.