Episode #215: Free-rider Friday - October 2018

Ron’s Topics

• “Forget Lemonade Stands, These ‘Kidtrepreneurs’ Are Running Million-Dollar Companies,” FEE, Brittany Hunter, October 7, 2018

• “NYT Columnist Wants a Jeff Bezos ‘Without All the Wealth Creation’”, FEE, John Tamny, October 7, 2018

• The Personality Brokers, a new book taking down the ridiculous personality profiling of Myers-Briggs.

• “Collective oracle,” The Economist, August 11, 2018

• A blockchain-based prediction market: Augur.

• “Peak Valley,” The Economist, September 1, 2018

• “Chasing the rainbow,” Technology Quarterly, September 1, 2018, The Economist

Ed’s Topics

• Russ Roberts article, Medium.com, “Do the Rich Capture All the Gains from Economic Growth?”

• Lawsuit against Lacroix beverage

• CafeHayek, 1885 book quote on protectionism William Graham Sumner

• Facebook is having a problem with too much centralization online, 50 million accounts are in jeopardy.

• John Stossel and Johan Norberg, Freetochoose.tv, documentary on Sweden and socialism

Democratic socialists in the United States point to Sweden as a socialist success. But Swedish historian Johan Norberg says, "Sweden is not socialist." --------- Subscribe to my YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/johnstossel Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JohnStossel/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnstossel --------- Norberg hosts a documentary called "Sweden: Lessons for America?"