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31 Mar As research progresses, the nature of our enemy is becoming ever clearer

Posted at 21:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

My article for The Telegraph: ‘This pestilence was so powerful that it was transmitted to the healthy by contact with the sick” wrote Giovanni Boccaccio of the Black Death, in his preface to The Decameron. The trouble with the coronavirus is almost exactly the opposite...

31 Mar A Vision of Post-Pandemic New York

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Once this is over, the city will be younger, cheaper, poorer and segregated in a new way. Read the Full Article here: >Tyler Cowen - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist...

31 Mar What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?

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The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has been matched by the imposing of radical shutdowns and compulsory mass quarantining as tens of millions of people are told to...

31 Mar How are free-market think tanks doing on social media?

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How are free-market think tanks doing on social media? Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, posted his annual analysis of think tanks’ use of social media last week in Forbes. He wrote: Due to the coronavirus pandemic think tanks around the world are working under quarantine and have...

29 Mar The Grumpy Economist: Coronavirus And The Road To Recovery

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Blank Section (Placeholder)Blank Section (Placeholder)Analysis and Commentary interview with John H. Cochranevia The Grumpy Economist | A Podcast with John H. CochraneHoover Institution on COVID-19Hoover Daily ReportHow economic policy can help America bounce back — and how it can go wrong. Read the Full Article here:...

29 Mar Russ Roberts On Coronavirus: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of The Economic Shutdown (15:02)

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Image credit: istockInterviewsBlank Section (Placeholder) interview with Russell Robertsvia Hoover Institution on COVID-19Capital Isn'tHoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts talks about the cost-benefit analysis of whether it would be better to keep the economy closed or opened during the coronavirus. Read the Full Article here: >Hoover Institution...

29 Mar Coronavirus as Ideology

Posted at 21:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Like you, I try to get out once a day to keep clarity of mind, whether out for a walk or, even better, to experience something of commercial life out there, truncated as it might be. Businesses doing business, wealth being created despite every barrier,...

29 Mar Some Links

Posted at 21:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetArnold Kling is spot-on about the coronavirus relief bill. Stephen Miller asks, to excellent effect, what the growing number of coronavirus cases really means. Jeffrey Tucker sees coronavirus as ideology. Shikha Dalmia makes the case for cutting H-1B visa red tape. Jeff Jacoby understandably worries about the...

28 Mar We Were Wrong: So Sorry that We Ruined Your Life

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Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, is moving up in the betting odds for getting the Democratic presidential nomination, even though he is not running. The reason is that binge-watching newshounds have noticed something about his comportment during this crisis. He seems just slightly struggling...

28 Mar Quotation of the Day…

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is this March 21st, 2020, tweet from Thomas Sowell: It is so easy to be wrong – and to persist in being wrong – when the costs of being wrong are paid by others. DBx: Indisputably true, both as a matter of logic and...

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