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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Turkish president says he is fighting a war of 'economic liberation' as markets blast the lira down by 40% so far this year. In crisis since 2018, Turkey’s national currency has careened to record lows in the past ten days with no end to the turbulence in sight. The Turkish lira dropped to 8.40 to the US dollar on Monday (November 2) following an unprecedented dip to 8 on October 22. The currency has lost 40% of its value since the start of 2020, with more than 7% lost in the past month. The main question now is whether Turkey’s prolonged currency crisis will turn into a debt crisis, as foreign reserves dwindle and foreign direct investment (FDI) stagnates.
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from HumanProgress.org
Education Website
Maximizing invention and innovation will require us to overcome the fear of growing populations, eccentric individuals and unique ideas.
Innovation requires inventions, and inventions begin with ideas. Though artificial intelligence may, at some point in the future, supplement or complement human ideas, at present only humans are capable of producing new ideas. Or, as the George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux noted in a 2018 article, “There Are No Natural Resources,” “the human mind is the ultimate resource because it, and only it, creates all of the other economically valuable inputs that we call ‘resources.’” That said, ideas are a bit of a mystery. They don’t show up in magnetic-resonance imaging or in people’s DNA. We don’t know who will have them or when they will appear.
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from KOMO News (ABC Seattle)
The wildfire season in Washington was ferocious, leveling an entire town, burning hundreds of homes and thousands of acres, and taking one life. A 22-month-old boy died in the Cold Springs fire in Okanogan County. Now parents Jacob and Jamie Hyland of Renton are telling their story.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Musa al-Gharbi: The Trump vote is rising among Blacks and Hispanics, despite the conventional wisdom
Perceptions of Trump as racist seem to be a core driving force pushing whites toward the Democrats. Why would the opposite pattern be holding among minority voters — i.e. the very people the president is purportedly being racist against?
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
Elections to government office shouldn't matter so much that they pose threats to the safety of school kids. And the only way to make who wins government office matter less is to lower the stakes by making government itself less important. ... We have to make elections less consequential so that people can afford to lose them without fearing their treatment by the winners. Given that power is inevitably abused by those who wield it, that means reducing government's authority over our lives so that ballot-box victors can't so easily punish their enemies.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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