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Investing
The State of Student Loan Forgiveness: November 2024
Andrew Gillen Note: This post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: Split the HEA plan into…
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Investing
The “Digital Gold” Fallacy, or Why Bitcoin Can’t Save the US Dollar
George Selgin Photo by Kanchanara@Unsplash This summer witnessed a major new plot twist in the Bitcoin saga. Originally conceived of…
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Investing
Reasons to Feel Thankful in 2024
Chelsea Follett This Thanksgiving comes in the wake of an emotional election that left some celebrating and others mourning. In…
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Economy
Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux
Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately…
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Investing
Australia’s Withdraws One Bad Online Speech Bill as It Advances Another
David Inserra The Australian government pulled its misinformation bill after the revised version continued to face domestic backlash and international…
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Investing
You Say You Want Fintech Competition, You Better Free Your Market
Jack Solowey When thinking of tech antitrust, the Biden administration’s quixotic campaign against the likes of Meta, Google, and Amazon…
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Economy
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
A recent firmware pushed to QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices left a number of owners unable to access their…
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Investing
New Defending Globalization Essay Just in Time for Thanksgiving: “Globalization Helps Feed the World”
Clark Packard In anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, the Cato Institute published a new essay from Philip G.…
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Investing
President-Elect Trump Plans an Endless Tax on American Consumers as an Added Feature of the War on Drugs
Jeffrey A. Singer On November 25, the New York Times reported that President-elect Donald Trump intends to punish Americans by making…
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Investing
Seattle Transit Agency Doing the Two-Step to Get Federal Funds for Light Rail
Marc Joffe Every time I look into a rail project on the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA’s) Capital Investment Grant (CIG)…
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