Pertinent Category: Daily Economy

Adam Smith’s Alleged “Exceptions” to a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade

– March 9, 2020

If you wish to win greater support for a policy proposal, it’s useful to draw your audience’s attention to famous and respected historical figures who, were they still alive, would almost surely join you in supporting that position. For example, if you …

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Why Don’t Things Work Anymore? (Video)

– March 9, 2020

I enjoyed being on the show Full Measure to discuss government regulations on gas cans and other things like showers, toilets, dishwashers, hot water heaters, and so on. My first writings on this topic are from Bourbon for Breakfast and I’ve been writi …

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Economic Crisis Is the State’s Oxygen

– March 9, 2020

With the virus priced, investor are now hedging themselves against a typically obtuse and alarmist reaction from policymakers that will enhance the power of government at the expense of the private sector where all growth takes place.

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Why this Draconian Response to COVID-19?

– March 8, 2020

Are we really ready to imprison the world, wreck financial markets, destroy countless jobs, and massively disrupt life as we know it, all to forestall some uncertain fate, even as we do know the right way to deal with the problem from a medical point of view? It’s at least worth debating.

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Women in the Wonderful World of Work

– March 8, 2020

Woman may become the dominant force in law and medicine, but men will apparently play the heavier role in engineering for the near-term.

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Real Estate and the Wealth of a Nation

– March 8, 2020

In terms of the economic health of a nation, the level of private debt and the value of private assets has an enormous influence on household spending patterns.

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COVID-19 Prompts the Question: Why Value Human Life?

– March 7, 2020

Have you noticed how philosophical COVID-19 is making us? The possible presence of imminent death of so many – true or not – is causing a reassessment of fundamental issues.

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Judy Shelton: Golden Nominee for a Tarnished Fed

– March 7, 2020

Dr. Judy Shelton is polite, soft-spoken, and diminutive – yet she seems capable of scaring the bejesus out of full-grown adults and “leaders” in American politics, academia, and media. Why? For decades she’s been a global expert on money, monetary poli …

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Employment report

Labor Market Shows Broad Strength Prior to COVID-19 Outbreak

– March 6, 2020

The U.S labor market had strong momentum prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, however the severity of disruptions to economic activity is still unknown. Extreme caution is warranted.

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Of Course Capitalism Can Save Nature

– March 6, 2020

Various schemes have turned rhinos and other scenic African animals from victims of the tragedy of the commons to valuable commodities that hunters and farmers and former poachers sustain, in no small part thanks to ecotourism.

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Warren Got Specific, and Everything Fell Apart

– March 6, 2020

Her approach took the centrist consensus of the last couple generations to a logical limit only a lawyer could find and ended up with something not that far from Sanders’ socialism.

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Entrepreneur Couney Brought Incubators to the Preemies

– March 6, 2020

One of Couney’s early stations was at the 1901 Buffalo World’s Fair. Also on display was an early X-ray machine whose inventor would soon win the first physics Nobel Prize.

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