Question 55

 

Question 55 

Upon reading this CNN report headlined “Biden demands faster drop in gas prices as oil tumbles,” Washington University economist Ian Fillmore wrote: “I immediately imagined some tribal chieftain loudly commanding the sky to rain or a volcano to stop erupting.“

Putin is raising some of the classic contradictions of war. He is being criticized for killing the wrong innocents by bombing a maternity ward and killing the innocents with the wrong instruments, threatening chemical and biological warfare. Governments love to pretend that their savage, murderous campaigns have rules.

Billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel was very critical at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami.
During his keynote speech, Thiel named investment icon Warren Buffett, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink as Bitcoin's "enemies," Bloomberg reported. He referred to the trio as a “gerontocracy” against what he portrayed as a revolutionary cryptocurrency movement.
He went on to call Buffett “the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha,” adding he was “enemy No. 1,” according to Bloomberg.
Next up on Thiel's list of "enemies"? The term ESG, or environmental, social, and governance standards, is an increasingly popular way to evaluate investments, and the impact they have on the world.
“The finance gerontocracy that runs the country through whatever silly virtue-signaling slash hate factory term like ESG they have, versus what I would call, what we have to think of as a revolutionary youth movement.”

",,, it focuses on the feminization of Ireland, being set in the mid-century decades after independence. An IRA veteran slowly realizes that the Ireland he fought for — a place for manly men — was a figment of his civil war imagination, and not an actual option for an independent, modernizing Ireland. The latter will be run according to the standards and desires of women, and actually be far more pleasant,"--from a review of 'Amongst Women'

It is not only theoretically possible to have more discrimination where there is less bias or prejudice, and less discrimination where there is more bias and prejudice, this has in fact happened in more than one country. The degree to which subjective attitudes are translated into overt acts of discrimination depends on the costs of doing so. Where those costs are very high, even very prejudiced or biased people may in engage in little or no discrimination.--sowell

The number of US breweries last year reached a new record high of 9,247, the greatest number of American beer makers going back to 1873 when the Brewers Association’s records start and there were 4,131 domestic breweries. Amazingly, the record brewery count in 2021 is almost a doubling of US breweries in just the last six years since 2015 when there were only 4,847 breweries, and more than four times the brewery count nine years ago of 2,252 in 2011.