This past weekend, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out to dinner at The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA. Apparently her presence at the restaurant disturbed some of the restaurant’s employees, so they contacted the restaurant’s owner. The owner asked her employees whether she should ask Sanders to leave, to which they […]
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If there’s one emotion that dominates any other in political discourse today, it’s envy. It’s important to distinguish between envy and jealousy. Jealousy is the state of being jealous, concerned with one’s relative lack of possessions, status, or value versus another person and wishing to achieve that same level of possessions, status, or value. Envy, […]
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Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition in which consumption of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It is estimated that up to 1% of people suffer from the disease, with many of those undiagnosed. Up to 2.5 million Americans may be suffering from undiagnosed celiac disease, which could lead to long-term health problems. […]
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Investing money make many people nervous. Especially when your life savings are at stake, the thought of losing any money, let alone thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, is enough to make you think twice about putting any of your assets at risk. But investment ultimately is necessary in order to build up wealth. […]
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Everyone is afraid, even just a little bit, but usually far more than we admit. We’re afraid of the unknown, of death, of failure, of realizing that we’ve been living incongruent to our deepest needs and wants in life. At our core we all have people we admire and wish to emulate, we all imagine […]
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From its origins as merely a search engine, Google has grown to become one of the internet’s behemoths. Branching into email through the creation of Gmail over a decade ago, then moving into content creation and delivery through its purchase of YouTube, there is hardly anything that occurs online that doesn’t have Google watching over […]
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In a disturbing new opinion, the Supreme Court overturned its decision in the 1992 Quill case and has now cleared the way for states to collect sales taxes on online purchases from out-of-state sellers. In Quill, the Court ruled that states could not collect sales taxes from out-of-state sellers unless those sellers had a physical […]
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With the knowledge that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not currently consider Ethereum to be a security, some analysts speculate that all the potential roadblocks for cryptocurrency futures have been removed. Bitcoin futures were announced with great fanfare late last year and have proven popular with investors. And while Ethereum futures have been […]
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With the knowledge that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not currently consider Ethereum to be a security, some analysts speculate that all the potential roadblocks for cryptocurrency futures have been removed. Bitcoin futures were announced with great fanfare late last year and have proven popular with investors. And while Ethereum futures have been […]
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One of the most underappreciated and miraculous discoveries of humanity has been the price system. Because of it everyone eats better, resources are conserved, and large-scale economic coordination and planning takes place without any individual in charge. Prices Are Signals Every day people negotiate, conditions change, supply shocks happen, people’s preferences change. And every day […]
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