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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks with Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, during the Ira C. Eaker Distinguished Speaker Presentation in the Academy's Arnold Hall on April 7, 2022 in Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Air Force photo by Trevor cokley)

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July 26, 2022
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Elon Musk’s Learning Curves

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July 26, 2022
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Musk is growing car and rocket knowledge every day. If he really wants to advance humanity let’s hope he can turn to generating green clean electricity knowledge next. Read More ›

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July 19, 2022
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Work Less, Earn More, Live Longer

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July 19, 2022
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In 1856 men in the U.K. had a life expectancy of around 58 years, or 502,860 life hours. According to a study by Professors Jesse Ausubel and Arnulf Grübler, over the course of their lives, these men typically spent around 30 percent of their time, or 149,700 hours working. Read More ›

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May 18, 2022
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Cordless Drills on Sale: Buy One, Get 41.8 Free

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May 18, 2022
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Technically speaking, the first “cordless” drill was called a bit and brace drill invented hundreds of years ago. You can still buy one of these classics at Amazon for around $57. Read More ›

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May 13, 2022
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Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-

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May 13, 2022
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Elon Musk and Julian Simon are right. Janet Yellen and Thanos are wrong. More human beings create much more wealth for all of us to enjoy, if given the freedom to innovate by learning and discovering new valuable knowledge to share in free markets. Invest in people. We pay the highest dividends. Read More ›

Putting money into the gas tank (high gas prices concept)

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May 10, 2022
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Even With Historic High Gasoline Prices, You Get 62 Percent More Miles for the Same Time it Took in 1980.

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May 10, 2022
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Yes nominal gas prices are at historic highs, but it’s not the money that counts, it’s your time. Time prices are the true prices. Read More ›

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April 26, 2022
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Visualizing Global Resource Abundance

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April 26, 2022
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Think pizzas. Personal resource abundance is the size of the slice. Global resource abundance is the size of the pie. Global resource abundance is the product of the size of the slice multiplied by the size of the population. Read More ›

Top down view of claw hammer and rusty nails on a plain wooden background

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February 23, 2022
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Nailing Innovation

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February 23, 2022
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Professor Daniel Sichel from Emory Riddle University has published an interesting paper on nails. He found that before the Industrial Revolution, it took about a minute for a skilled blacksmith or nailsmith to produce one hand-forged nail. Today, a worker can produce 3,500 nails per minute. Read More ›

Green corn field with corn cobs close up.

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February 1, 2022
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Cornpreneurs Save Us From Davos Elites

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February 1, 2022
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You may want to try a worm with your next meal, but there is no reason to think we are running out of corn or the land to grow the food for making appetizing steaks, wings, and chops. Read More ›

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October 15, 2021
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More Interesting Thoughts About Time Prices

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October 15, 2021
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Time prices offer a number of useful tools to provide additional perspectives on changes in abundance over time. Thinking in time can make much more sense than thinking in money. Read More ›

Three smartphones close-up on a white background.

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October 6, 2021
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Apple Created $103 Trillion in Consumer Value

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October 6, 2021
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ale University economist and co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics, William Nordhaus, estimated that producers capture around 2.2 percent of the benefits of technological advances. That would leave 97.8 percent of those benefits to the consumers of those products. Read More ›