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10 People Who Are Working to Change the World

ByAlim Gelyastanov 24, August 2015

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1. Elon Musk

Elon Musk has transformed virtually every field he’s taken an interest in, from electronic payments to commercial spaceflight to electric cars. After selling PayPal, Musk used his fortune from the sale of that company to fund a flurry of new ventures, including Tesla, a manufacturer of electric cars, and SpaceX, a commercial spaceflight operation.

The range and scale of Musk’s ambitions have attracted skepticism, but over time, he has proved himself to be not only an ideas man but an astute business thinker. He’s a guy who dreams big dreams and then makes them happen.

Musk’s latest dream is the Hyperloop, a giant pneumatic tube that would transport passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in 35 minutes. It sounds crazy, but Elon Musk is one of the few people who can propose the Hyperloop and be taken seriously.

Musk has also introduced the Tesla Powerwall, a wall-mounted solar powered lithium-ion electric battery for homes and small businesses, and the Tesla Powerpack, a heftier version of the same core product designed for utility-scale use.

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10 Smart Ways to Invest Your Money

BySean McConeghy 30, April 2015

Photo by 401(K) 2013 1) Yourself (pay yourself first) The single most important investment that you can make is in yourself. If you are not already doing so, it is time to start paying yourself 10% of every dollar that you make, whether through your job, your investments, or anything else. That money is to…

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10 Facts on the Economics of Weed

ByCharles Seeburger 2, April 20152, April 2015

Whether it’s Black Market or Legal, Weed is a Serious Cash Crop From the legal markets thriving in states like Colorado and Washington, to the underground trade that generates billions of Mexican cartels, the economics of weed are crazy. Ganja. Smoke. Dro. Chronic. Spliffage. The names are as varied as the opinions about it: from…

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10 Milton Friedman Quotes That Defy Liberal Logic Explained

ByCharles Seeburger 1, May 20153, May 2015

Milton Friedman was a tiny little Jewish fellow who grew up in New Jersey, the son of Eastern European immigrants. Famously logical, he was able to distill complex ideas into snippets palatable to even those with short attention spans. Saying things like “There is no such thing as a free lunch” and “Hell hath no…

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Freedom is not Absolute: The Subjective and Relative Nature of Human Liberty

ByKeith Farrell 19, November 201423, November 2014

Recently I came across a friend who was espousing that Americans were not truly free. How can anyone who is supposedly free be required to pay taxes, they asked? Freedom is absolute, they proclaimed; you are either free or you are not. But freedom is not absolute. It is a relative and subjective concept. Freedom…

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Is Medical Care a Right?

ByStephen Cicero 1, April 2015

When any of us suffers an injury or serious illness we require medical care, so it must be a right that we receive it. Right? When a large number of people begin to insist that something is a right, we can be sure that the politicians will begin crafting the legislation to declare it so,…

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Punting to Politicians

BySean McConeghy 25, August 2015

Just as reliably as the sun rises and sets, so too with every election are there those who change their positions and defend the new ones tooth and nail over the old ones. No, it’s not the politicians, it’s the people who support them. Despite the fact that it often seems as though it’s always…

1. Elon Musk

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