Greenspan: Fed Not Responsible for Financial Crisis If a lie is repeated often enough it becomes the truth, and there are few better examples than the tar and feathering of Alan Greenspan for his purported role the housing and financial crisis. But the preponderance of evidence suggests his culpability is limited or non-existent. In other… Continue reading Economics Myths, Part 6: Alan Greenspan Caused The Financial Crisis
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The Daily View: Privacy, Silicon Valley Housing, The Failure of Democracy, Gender Achievement Gap in the Sciences
This is being passed around like an STD: What Happens Next Will Amaze You The infamous dating site for married people Ashley Madison was hacked, revealing personal information and and easily-cracked passwords for millions of users. Some of these users are already the subject of active extortion. Australia passed an incoherent and sweeping data retention… Continue reading The Daily View: Privacy, Silicon Valley Housing, The Failure of Democracy, Gender Achievement Gap in the Sciences
How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people
In their war on the ownership society, the left wants people to rent instead of owning homes. Because so much wealth is held in real estate, one way for the left to accomplish their goal of making society poorer is to get people out of homes and into rentals by spreading misinformation about real estate… Continue reading How the left spreads misinformation, fear, and bad advice to ‘save/protect’ people