- Do immigrants vote for the broken institutions they fled? No. No they don't.
- America foisted Anti-Money Laundering legislation on New Zealand; New Zealand used it to kill iPredict and make it damned hard to run international remittances. Meanwhile, New Hampshire exempts Bitcoin and virtual currencies from money transmitter regulations. A bit like how American pressure in international forums makes drug legalisation harder, while US states legalise. There's much to be said for federalism.
- The anti-GMO cult goes after some petunias (NBR $). They've been sold since the 80s and are harmless, but somebody just noticed that they have a corn gene. Amazing that MPI has resource for witchhunts.
- In defense of cultural appropriation
- There was never an idyll of a sovereign modern state unconstrained by bond markets and financiers. Bond markets rather helped create the modern state.
Friday 16 June 2017
Afternoon roundup
Some highlights from the closing of the browser tabs:
Labels:
agriculture,
assorted links,
culture,
GMO,
immigration,
regulation
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