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19 Mar We are about to find out how robust civilisation is

Posted at 21:11h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On Sunday, lonely as a cloud, I wandered across a windswept moor in County Durham and passed a solitary sandstone rock with a small, round hollow in the top, an old penny glued to the base of the hollow. It is called the Butter Stone...

19 Mar Impossible Foods: Capitalism is The Most Powerful Lever to Fight Climate Change

Posted at 16:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, they provided tasty, plant-based alternatives.----------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

19 Mar Revolution Is in the Air

Posted at 16:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Before the COVID-19 panic struck in March 2020, many Americans were already disgruntled with major institutions and leaders, from POTUS to SCOTUS and Congress to the value of college and healthcare. While few could articulate the problems with the nation’s healthcare, higher education, or retirement...

19 Mar A Free-Market Economist’s Thoughts on Coronavirus

Posted at 11:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

What answers can free-market thinking offer in the face of COVID-19? Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

19 Mar What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Human Connection

Posted at 11:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“Only connect!” reads the epigraph to E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End. That phrase possibly encapsulates Forster’s entire philosophy. It is also contrary to the current commands of our authorities and the mass media: Stay home! Keep inside! Close down! Quarantine! Be afraid! Socially distance! Don’t gather...

19 Mar Adam Smith: Libertarian in a Foxhole

Posted at 11:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In a piece on conservative liberalism, Dan Klein look at the response of conservatives like Smith, Hume and Burke to crises. For example, when the harvest was poor it was common for England to adopt free trade to import grain. Adam Smith argued that what...

19 Mar Implementing Federal lending

Posted at 11:17h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The central problem now is how the Federal government can lend money to businesses that need it -- without a budget blowout. I proposed letting people borrow from the IRS which has a pretty good mechanism for getting repaid. Martin Lowy has a more detailed...

19 Mar Just the facts about the coronavirus

Posted at 04:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has invited people around the world to take a sober approach to life and social relations. But it has also spread a potentially worse contagion throughout society: panic. At the Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty Transatlantic website, James Agresti dispenses the...

18 Mar Government COVID-19 Tests Were Awful, Now Private Labs Are Saving the Day

Posted at 23:25h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. As of Friday afternoon, there are 132,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, and the global death toll has topped 5,000 people. The fast-spreading virus claimed 196 lives in Italy, on Tuesday alone. At this time, 90...

18 Mar Holding the Line: Maintaining Fiscal and Monetary Policy Boundaries in the Midst of a Crisis

Posted at 23:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

George Selgin Not long ago, the CMFA staff and I were preparing to officially launch The Menace of Fiscal QE, my book aimed at countering efforts to have the Fed undertake or otherwise fund off-budget government spending programs. Then came the crisis. Of course our plans were...