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18 Mar Massachusetts Bans Dancing Like It’s 1684

Posted at 15:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The state of Massachusetts has now entered Phase III Step 2 of a reopening, which means all sorts of amazing nonsense cobbled together by people with power who imagine that their high-end credentials grant them the intelligence to outsmart a virus. Not that many citizens...

18 Mar Can Private Businesses Legally and Morally Force Customers to Wear Masks?

Posted at 08:31h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The most shocking aspect of the viral video from Galveston wasn’t the police brutality directed against a “senior” citizen because unfortunately we have all grown accustomed to state-sanctioned violence. What shocked most was that a major U.S. bank would expose itself to such negative publicity,...

17 Mar More “Covid Suicides” than Covid Deaths in Kids

Posted at 15:51h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Before Covid, an American youth died by suicide every six hours. Suicide is a major public health threat and a leading cause of death for those aged under 25 — one far bigger than Covid. And it is something that we have only made worse...

17 Mar FEE Testifies Before the Senate: The Life-Threatening Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns

Posted at 15:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, Foundation for Economic Education Opinion Editor Brad Polumbo will testify before the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. Before Chairman Senator Ben Cardin, Ranking Member Senator Rand Paul, and their colleagues on the Committee, Polumbo will discuss the work FEE...

17 Mar Contra Nicholas Kristof, Presidential Ink Will Never ‘Scrub’ Away Poverty

Posted at 15:48h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Nicholas Kristof is elated. Of course, there lies the problem with elation found in the overly emotional. It’s not always grounded in reality. To see why, consider what has the New York Times columnist overjoyed. It’s the $1.9 trillion so-called “American Rescue Plan” that President Biden has signed...

17 Mar Debts, Deficits, and the Entitlement Crisis

Posted at 15:48h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Michael Tanner’s book Going for Broke was published in 2015 and unfortunately, his message has become more urgent as time has passed. It should be no surprise to anyone that the United States government has reached new levels of debt after spending trillions of dollars...

17 Mar Inflation Outlook: Likely Worse Than Expected

Posted at 09:05h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Though money supply has been growing rapidly over the period since the Great Recession in 2008, not much of it has been put to productive use through credit extension to finance economic activity. Instead, the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) has incentivized the banking system to...

16 Mar Some Covid Links

Posted at 17:50h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetEd Stringham looks back on one year of lockdowns. A slice: This is the new line of the lockdowners. They can’t cite broad-based evidence of any correlation much less causation between lockdowns and virus control. There simply isn’t any, and meanwhile AIER has assembled...

16 Mar Unemployment in Free vs. Locked-Down States

Posted at 17:48h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The economic results of America’s ongoing experiment with COVID-19 top-down authoritarianism are in, and they provided for the clearest picture to date about the very real, devastating side effects of lockdowns. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has made available a series of new statistics highlighting...

16 Mar Vaccine Passports are Cronyism

Posted at 17:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

For years, I’ve used the term crony capitalist to describe businesspeople who choose to earn profits by lobbying for subsidies and government regulations suppressing competition. My critics pointed out that crony capitalists are not capitalists. My critics are right, and the distinction matters. Crony capitalism has...