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The playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that if you laid all the world’s economists end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. President Truman allegedly once asked for a one-handed economist, who would be unable to say “on the other hand…” Economists richly deserve such jokes. But there are still issues where economists overwhelmingly agree, regardless of politics, ideology, or methodology. One of those issues is the minimum wage. Economists are far more likely to be against it than the general public. Read the article with my highlights .

A deep dive into the science behind implicit bias. "Few academic ideas have been as eagerly absorbed into public discourse in recent years as 'implicit bias.' Embraced by a president, a would-be president, and the nation’s top law-enforcement official, the implicit-bias conceit has launched a movement to remove the concept of individual agency from the law and spawned a multimillion-dollar consulting industry. The statistical basis on which it rests is now crumbling, but don’t expect its influence to wane anytime soon. Read the source article with my highlights .

  " Gun sales surged 65% in the month of October as this year's figures show a continued "record firearm sales pace" amid  unrest and uncertainty , according to statistics released Monday. An estimated 1.9 million firearms were sold in October this year, a 65% spike from the same month in 2019, according to data provided by Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting (SAAF), a research group that examines the raw data obtained from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS." Source

"When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday’s presidential election, he cut her out of his life." Source article  

 Major win against big tech censorship! Suck it, Twitter.  How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post’s account

" New York (CNN Business) Bond billionaire Bill Gross is involved in a legal battle with his tech entrepreneur neighbor over a $1 million sculpture and allegations that Gross blasted the "Gilligan's Island" theme song on a loop from his house" Source .

A piece of music improvised by a composer suffering from dementia has been recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and is being released as a single. BBC Breakfast was there for the moment 80-year-old Paul Harvey heard the full version of his piece for the first time. Original source article.