Voluntary Exchange Sources

27 Nov Darth Sidious’s Lockdown

Posted at 11:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Turn the clock back two years. It is 2018 and Christmas is fast approaching. Of a sudden, Star Destroyers appear in our atmosphere. Darth Sidious and his legion Clone army descend, commandeering all governments. The Clone force takes over, directed by Sidious and moved by the...

25 Nov Some Links

Posted at 14:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetMy GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan powerfully argues that the benefits of the Covid lockdowns and other reactions fall far short of their costs. A slice: At this point, you could protest, “Hey Bryan, I thought you weren’t a utilitarian.” So what if the...

24 Nov No More Lockdown

Posted at 22:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWhether or not you’re into dancing in the October moonlight with your brown-eyed girl, you should be appalled – as is Van Morrison – by the deranged Covid-19 lockdowns. (HT my dear friends Betsy and Lyle Albaugh) Read the Full...

24 Nov Tyranny Unmasked

Posted at 21:59h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWe, my fellow Americans, are today living under tyranny. There is no other way to describe it. That this tyranny is masked (!) in lovely motives is irrelevant; it is tyranny. And remember that all tyranny masquerades as beneficence. Were it to do...

22 Nov Covid Governments and Social Harmony

Posted at 16:02h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As if our societies didn’t have enough conflicts, we have added a new beautiful way of pitting one person against another: Covid-restrictions. Instead of clamping down with the mighty force of government on some innocent behavior, politicians have outsourced the enforcement of their rules to...

22 Nov Asymptomatic Spread Revisited

Posted at 14:52h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The phrase “fog of war” is attributed to Carl von Clausewitz. It has come to refer to the confusion and uncertainty felt by everyone in the midst of conflict. It is often unclear who is making decisions and why, and what the relationships are between...

22 Nov Entrepreneurship Is Accelerating at the Fastest Rate in Decades During This Pandemic

Posted at 08:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As officials in many areas impose new pandemic lockdowns and restrictions going into the holiday season, things can seem bleak. Depression rates are up, people are fleeing cities in droves, elected leaders regularly violate their own orders, and fraud is rampant in the government’s COVID-19...

22 Nov Giving Thanks for Our Mutual Dependence

Posted at 08:13h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force, calls for a nationwide 4-6 week lockdown. Another task force member, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, has long favored lockdowns. In some states, store shelves have already been emptied again in anticipation of lockdowns. Yet, there are...

22 Nov Pandemics Are Over When the Public Decides They’re Over

Posted at 07:56h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In Colorado, reported cases and hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients are at higher levels than ever before. And yet politicians are worried that if they issue new stay-at-home orders, the public won’t obey them. For instance the Denver Post last week reported Colorado Democrats admitted the public isn’t...

22 Nov Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 07:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 110 of Deirdre McCloskey’s and Art Carden’s splendid new (2020) book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World: The people studying to become better nudgers, meddlers, bureaucrats, administrators, or Keynesian magicians do...