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29 Oct Thanks To Progress Because of Capitalism Life is Getting Better

Posted at 03:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Worried about Tuesday? Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics. Love, friendship, family, raising children, building businesses, worship, charity work — that is the stuff of life! Politicians get in the way of those things. But despite the efforts of power-hungry Republicans and Democrats,...

26 Oct Rejoinder to Appelbaum on Friedman

Posted at 19:43h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

By John P. Mackey and Walter E. Block In his September 18, 2020 New York Times column, Binyamin Appelbaum appeared to be highly critical of Milton Friedman. The former started out by calling the latter “a free-market ideologue,” and he did not mean this as a compliment....

26 Oct The New Feudalism

Posted at 19:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald McNeil released...

26 Oct To Recover From Economic Lockdowns Embrace Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Posted at 19:39h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As we now know, the months-long economic lockdowns that many governments imposed when the current coronavirus pandemic first hit this year failed to stop the virus from spreading. Instead, the lockdowns caused economic and social devastation: soaring unemployment rates and business failures, ballooning government debt,...

26 Oct Google is Not a Coercive Monopoly

Posted at 19:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The US Department of Justice has filed a complaint against “Monopolist Google for Violating Antitrust Laws.” Google is the biggest player in the world of internet search and the company has come under fire in recent weeks for allegedly rigging search results for political reasons,...

26 Oct Some Links

Posted at 19:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetGeorge Will explains that America has already been injected with a large dose of socialism, and the dosage of this poison is increasing. A slice: Wading waist-deep into political policies, the Fed is adopting, Eberstadt says, “the role of managing and even micromanaging the...

26 Oct Krastev on Pandemic and Politics

Posted at 19:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On “Persuasion” (the newsletter-think tank launched by Yascha Mounk after the Harper Letter) there is an excerpt of Ivan Krastev’s forthcoming book, Is it Tomorrow Yet? Paradoxes of the Pandemic. Krastev struggles with the impact of the pandemic of different political regimes. His starting point is...

26 Oct Viral Silence

Posted at 17:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This semester I volunteered to teach both of my classes in-person. I’ve also given four public talks in Texas, and one at GMU. All of these venues had mask mandates. And in each case, I noticed an eerie pattern: Almost no one talks to each other...

19 Oct John Snow vs. The John Snow Memorandum

Posted at 06:18h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Turns out the John Snow Memorandum isn’t trolling or satirizing Game of Thrones or other marquee zombie franchises. Nay, the John Snow in question should not be confused with Jon Snow nee Aegon Targaryen, the Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch cum King in the...

16 Oct A New Approach to Covid-19

Posted at 12:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Letter from 12 Conservative peers to The Times: Sir, It is now clear that a policy of lockdown failed to bring the virus under control while having crippling economic and social side effects. Sweden has achieved a lower death rate from Covid-19 than the UK, with...