The primary recipients of newly created money are currently banks and corporations who are able to borrow from the Fed almost 0% interest and loan this to the public at much higher interest rates.
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A World Run By Economists
If only economists could run for office, the the compound interest on more efficient resource allocation, would have produced a utopia with flying cars by now.
The increase in depression is most correlated with the increase in inflammatory autoimmune diseases and with significant changes in the western diet.
When faced with the decision of rescuing a cat from the pound or allowing it to be euthanized, the ethical considerations can be complex and multifaceted. This article explores the dilemma through the lens of utilitarian calculus, weighing the pleasure and pain generated by each action to determine its moral worth.
This chart shows when the cost of the average stock (the S&P 500) exceeds its underlying value (corporate profits after taxes).
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Long-Term Trends in Human Well-Being
For millennia, everything sucked. Then something magical happened!
100 million trees and $178 billion worth of time could be saved every year by not subsidizing junk mail.
A 10 kiloton nuclear weapon can kill 1.32 million people. The 15,000 nuclear weapons globally could cause 19,500 megadeaths.
Free tools to discover important and useful clinical research about your DNA.
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How much of our DNA is useless junk?
At least 75 percent of the human genome consists of non-functional, junk DNA. The functional portion of the human genome probably constitutes only about 10 to 15 percent of our overall DNA.