Topic: Authoritarianism

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government, Science

Big Tobacco, Small Minds

– April 9, 2022

“The BMJ appears to only selectively exempt its contributors from its own financial standards, because it turns out that one of the authors of the attack on AIER has a far more direct connection to Big Tobacco than minor and indirect stock market investments.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Economic Education, History

Taming the Dictator Within, Part 1

– April 9, 2022

“Beware of treating human beings, in an economy or organization or your personal life, as problems to be solved. We are imperfect material; our errors are corrected in the course of a social process.” ~ Barry Brownstein

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

Corrupt Federal Statistics Mask Government Cons

– April 7, 2022

“Politicians often rig reporting requirements to hide the damage their laws inflict. Anyone who has blind faith in federal data is unfit to judge public policy in the real world.” ~ James Bovard

Authoritarianism, Cryptocurrency, Government, Technology

Crypto’s Privacy/Commingling Dilemma

– March 31, 2022

“Mixing is a less-than ideal way to gain privacy. In solving for privacy, mixing introduces another problem; commingling. When you use a mixing tool, you’re introducing your licit funds into the same pot as potentially criminally-derived funds.” ~ J.P. Koning

Authoritarianism, Economic Education, Free Trade, Government

Microchips and Potato Chips

– March 30, 2022

“The fact that we produce more Z doesn’t imply that we thereby can afford to acquire and use more Z. This reality is inescapable whether ‘Z’ stands for potato chips or for microchips.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

The Political Class Needs to Level with Us

– March 30, 2022

“We are in for a long and difficult period, which began with the pandemic that disrupted supply chains and set off inflation, and now the war in Ukraine has compounded that.” ~ Llewellyn King

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government, History

Why Not Rebel?

– March 29, 2022

“Ironically, only in the United States and a few other relatively good places to live do people retain sufficient liberty to develop alternative governance systems capable of replacing existing ones, should that ever become necessary.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government, Science

How Threat-Free Are Americans from COVID-19? Late March 2022 Update

– March 27, 2022

“So even as mandates fall and COVID recedes, we cannot slumber while government has broken out of its pen. Maybe now it’s tamely wandering about the yard, but that doesn’t mean the beast is harmless.” ~ Jon Sanders

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Financial Markets, International

Zero-Covid Policy Threatens Hong Kong’s Status as an International Financial Hub

– March 26, 2022

“Hong Kong is still the main gateway into China. However, its liberty purge spoiled business confidence, and the long-term effects of ongoing geopolitical tensions are yet to be seen.” ~ Dorothy Chan

Art and Culture, Authoritarianism, Government, Media

A Reader’s Guide to Newspeak 2022

– March 25, 2022

“To master the Newspeak of 2022, you must subsume yourself within the collective. You must reject ‘oldthink’ and the ‘kind of trash’ that advocates individual rights.” ~ Caroline Breashears

Authoritarianism, Free Markets, History, Socialism

Do They Not Know?

– March 25, 2022

“Do today’s skeptics of free markets – whether these skeptics be full-on socialists or advocates of ‘mere’ industrial policy – have any accurate knowledge of economic history, of economics, or of human nature?” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Education, Government

The Kids Aren’t Alright

– March 21, 2022

“Maybe we’re all in this together, as the propaganda goes, but we are not equally in this together. Treating children the way government officials did was morally wrong.” ~ Ryan Sullivan & David R. Henderson