The Consequences of Regulation: How GDPR Is Preventing AI
Jennifer Huddleston Recently, the Irish Data Protection Commission halted the launch of Google’s new artificial intelligence (AI) product, Bard, over concerns about data privacy under European Union (EU) law. This follows a similar action by Italy following the initial launch of ChatGPT
China Calls Out the USA for Instigating the Infamous Color Revolutions
As geopolitical tensions rise, the Chinese political leadership tells the US government to desist pushing its "color revolutions." Original Article: "China Calls Out the USA for Instigating the Infamous Color Revolutions"
The FTC Should Answer Its Call of Duty to Gamers
All too often, unscrupulous businesses weaponize the United States’ antitrust laws—which are only supposed to be utilized to protect consumers against higher prices and other consequences of monopoly power—for their own self-serving purposes. Professor Thomas DiLorenzo explained this problem more
Nicotine E‑Cigarettes Might Do More than Save the Lives of People with Schizophrenia
Jeffrey A. Singer Mental health practitioners have long known that cigarette smoking is prevalent among people with schizophrenia. Research estimates as many as 88 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke cigarettes, a rate much higher than in people with other psychiatric disorders
School World Order
John Klyczek joins Michael on the first episode of REKT. John (jakE) is the author of School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education. Topics include the behaviorist, collectivist, and eugenicist roots of public (and state-sanctioned private) education, the globalist organizations
Sound Money Is Required for Real Budget Discipline
The usual suspects are "relieved" that Congress gave President Biden what he wanted on the so-called budget deal. Without sound money, however, the borrowing and spending regime will collapse sooner or later. Original Article: "Sound Money Is Required for Real Budget
There Are Limits to What Testing Tells Us, But The Latest Scores Are Troubling
Neal McCluskey Today we received the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Long‐Term Trend results, this time for 13‐year‐olds in math and reading. And as you can see below, they are not good, with scores dropping precipitously.
Assumptions Matter Both in Economics and in the Real World
To explain Japan’s economic problems, Paul Krugman employed a model that assumes people are identical and live forever. While admitting that the model is not realistic, Krugman nonetheless argued that his model could still offer solutions to the crisis. In The
Modi’s India Is Better in Economics than History
Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the United States for a state visit that is expected to highlight India’s importance as a rising economic and military power, and the only country in Asia that can be a counter to
How Capitalism Redefined Masculine Virtue
In the pre-industrial world, aggression and physical domination were often labeled as "masculine" virtues because they were useful for survival. The rise of the cooperative market economy changed all that. Original Article: "How Capitalism Redefined Masculine Virtue"