Man Accused Of Trying To Set Portland Record Store On Fire After They Wouldn't Buy His Records

In memory of Roger Garrison, Bob walks through Garrison's famous capital-based macroeconomics diagrams, showing how they translate the Mises-Hayek theory of the boom-bust cycle into the language of modern macroeconomics.

Welsh Police Officers Ordered To Log Anti-Islam Comments In Chilling Free Speech Crackdown Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Britain's free speech traditions face fresh erosion as South Wales Police directs officers to record conversations and comments about Islam that stray beyond what the force deems "legitimate" discussion. The policy, exposed in recent social media posts, risks logging lawful criticism as hostility incidents that could surface in future employment checks. This move builds directly on the Labour government's March definition of "anti-Muslim hostility" and exposes how public bodies are "gold-plating" safeguards meant to...

Sam Altman Pushes Plan For Backdoor Government Backstop By Handing Out Small Equity Stake To Americans Back in November, amid mounting speculation that OpenAI's massive cash burn was massively unsustainable in light of the $1.4 trillion of funding commitments by the AI company, which in turn has sparked the biggest capex flood in modern history all on the hope that the company's promised payments will be made good, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar sparked a market selloff when amid an admission that OpenAI was “looking for an ecosystem of banks [and]...