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27 Mar A More or Less Perfect Union: Emancipation Proclamation

Posted at 10:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

President Abraham Lincoln issued an Executive Order known as the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in rebel territories during the Civil War. It would ultimately take an amendment to the Constitution to abolish all slavery at the end of the war. Learn more about...

27 Mar How Isaac Newton Turned Isolation From the Great Plague Into a “Year of Wonders”

Posted at 10:39h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

College students around the world left campus this month, unsure when they would return and what daily life would look like until then. Forced to leave their friends and classmates behind and return to their childhood bedrooms, young people, who on average are less...

25 Mar Say No to Subsidies

Posted at 16:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Can you hear the oinks of the pigs running toward the feeding trough now that Farmer Uncle Sam has rung the feeding bell? For several weeks politicians have been jockeying to up the ante with progressively higher bailout proposals: $850 billion, $1 trillion, $2 trillion....

25 Mar Boettke Makes Economics Life-Affirming and Intellectually Adventurous

Posted at 16:56h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

For centuries, economists have struggled for ways to impart economic lessons to the general public, with the hope of impressing upon people who are not studying formally the need to grasp the logic and meaning of economics. This is a cause that Peter Boettke, my professor...

24 Mar Teaching Sound Economics in a Crisis of Fallacies: Steve Horwitz AMA

Posted at 17:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Thanks for watching our recent AMA video I was pleased to record with David Henderson last week. This week, Econlib contributor Steve Horwitz has kindly agreed to film an AMA interview with me this week, which we will then share here. Our topic of discussion will be,...

24 Mar Liberty Is Killed During Emergencies: Just Ask Germans

Posted at 16:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On January 30, 1933, German President von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. On March 30, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 32nd president of the United States. Both men were taking office with the aim of leading their respective...

24 Mar 800 Medical Specialists Caution Against Draconian Measures

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If you depend only on mass media during this crisis, one’s perspective can become distorted. You might gain the impression that the whole world agrees that a full lockdown of life itself is the only way to control the spread of Coronavirus and minimize the...

23 Mar If You Hate Empty Store Shelves, You Should Love “Price Gouging”

Posted at 23:51h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Amidst the continued spread of COVID-19, anti-price gougers have been hard at work on social media to expose the supposed moral tragedy of price gouging: greedy and exploitative sellers raising prices of necessary goods to massive heights when consumers need them most. Take the...

23 Mar A Virus Worse Than the One from Wuhan

Posted at 23:50h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Wuhan virus pandemic may teach us many new lessons before it’s over—in science, hygiene, interpersonal relations, economics, and more—but one thing is plainly evident already. Socialists need to self-isolate. They are learning nothing from the crisis. Indeed, these righteous opponents of exploitation are...

23 Mar Fed Bombshell

Posted at 23:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Fed just announced "extensive new measures to support the economy." What's this all about?The PMCCF will allow companies access to credit ...

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