Are You in a State of Emergency? Mid-July 2022 COVID Threat-Free Update
“It must be hard to keep people ruled by fear of a variant ‘BA.5’ when the much more worrisome numbers impacting their lives and family are $5 gasoline and 9.1 percent inflation.” ~ Jon Sanders
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Liberty and the Power of the Purse
“The colonists ripped the British Empire apart to combat what they considered political slavery, and Southerners tried to do likewise to the U.S. Republic to maintain chattel slavery. Liberty again hangs by the purse strings and by no means must it prevail.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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End the Gasoline Crisis: Try Motivation by Love, Not Fear
“It is time to unleash the market to produce more, rather than excoriate the oil producers. Try some motivation by love, President Biden, not motivation by fear.” ~ Raymond C. Niles
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Fed Must Act Now to Stop Runaway Inflation
“Fed Chair Jerome Powell promised more than six months ago that the Fed would ‘use our tools to make sure that higher inflation does not become entrenched.’ Its actions, however, indicate otherwise.” ~ Thomas L. Hogan
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Tyrannies of Hyperreality
“Outsourcing our problems to distant capitals has always gotten us into bigger problems. So the lesson here is not just about hyperreality. We must start to decentralize. Localize. Self-organize.” ~ Max Borders
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US Celebrates Alliance With Seoul: But Is South Korea Worth a Nuclear War?
“Absent a miraculous deus ex machina, the North will soon be able to destroy American cities. This requires Washington to consider the unthinkable: acquiescing to if not encouraging South Korean development of its own nuclear deterrent.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Inflation, Unemployment, and Fed Credibility
“Any time it looks like there’s a tradeoff between unemployment and inflation, something has gone very wrong. We could’ve avoided both horns of the dilemma if the Fed had done its job.” ~ Alexander William Salter
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Make America Free Again (MAFA)
“The policy path to MAFA is clear, deregulate everything from Amtrak to monetary policy, while reinvigorating the Third Sector (nonprofits) and forming a Ministry of Truth to police all claims, and only claims, made by governments, government officials, and politicians.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Black American Identity, Family, and Religion: An Interview with Glenn Loury
“Racial disparity is really only a derivative result of the larger social abandonment of a set of norms which manifests itself most immediately and most severely in the African American population, but which really is a larger question for all Americans.” ~ Glenn Loury & Alexander Riley
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There Ought To Be a Law, or at Least a Regulation.
“When the busybodies at the FDA picture the impacts of their new regulations, they imagine that these interventions will save lives, reduce health consequences, and protect Americans. They imagine only the results they want, not the way people actually behave.” ~ Laura Williams
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The Amtrak Abomination
“While trains are not especially good for the environment, many people assume they are ‘green,’ also allowing for some of the fake virtue signaling many American politicians seem to crave.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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How UT-Austin Administrators Destroyed an Intellectual Diversity Initiative
“The extreme hostility of the faculty toward this project shows the desperate need for something serious along these lines. However, with the current administration at UT-Austin, nothing will be possible without far more direct state intervention.” ~ Richard Lowery
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