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Will AI Make Us Wonderfully Prosperous? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, “Any given government program will become the opposite of its name,” Elon Musk said recently. The rule seems correct. Think of the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Control Act, the CARES Act, the War on Poverty, and countless others. They all resulted in the very inverse of how they are named. That’s some wisdom right there. Musk holds many libertarian views along these lines and has been a vocal champion of capitalism as an economic system. He famously set out to...

Why Bernie Sanders' AI Bill Is Fascistic And Dangerous Authored by Amirhossein Eshtiaghi via The Mises Institute, Bernie Sanders is a socialist populist. His unfamiliarity with the fundamentals of economics explains why he considers Denmark to be socialist. A former Danish Prime Minister once implicitly addressed such claims, noting that Denmark’s economy is not socialist, but rather a market economy. But the truth does not matter to American leftists. He has now made headlines again with a bill that would expand state participation in the AI sector—a plan that, contrary to the claims of his supporters, could...

Rolls-Royce Bags Third European SMR Deal While Adding Gas-Cooled Reactor Design Rolls-Royce SMR just added its third major European contract. Videberg Kraft, backed by Sweden’s utility Vattenfall, selected the UK design for three units on the west coast, making it Sweden’s first new nuclear plant in more than forty years.  The multibillion-pound export win, actively supported by UK government trade efforts, lands on top of existing deals in the UK and Czechia and makes Rolls-Royce the only SMR developer with multiple binding commitments across the continent. We tracked when the UK advanced...