Topic: Crisis

Crisis, Government, International, War and Peace

Biden Administration: Incompetent, Naïve, or Desperate?

– February 12, 2022

“Dealing with the Ukraine crisis might prove impossible for a president who is incompetent, naïve, and desperate. Buckle up, as the fabled (though probably faux) Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times,’ comes true.” ~ Doug Bandow

Crisis, Environmentalism, Free Markets, Government

Do We Have A Climate “Crisis” Only Because We’re So Comfortable?

– February 12, 2022

“It’s sad that creating an increasingly comfortable world isn’t a grand enough battle to capture human attention and spirit. But as always in politics, we must take humans as they are, not as we wish they were.” ~ James E. Hanley

Crisis, Government, Inflation, Young Voices

Scapegoating Inflation Will Only Make It Worse

– February 11, 2022

“For the sake of the economy and your grocery bills, let’s hope the administration’s threats of antitrust and price controls are not serious. If the administration really wants to tackle inflation, it needs the Fed to rein in its reckless monetary policy. ~ Kat Dwyer

Crisis, Government, Policy

Gut and Amend Goes to Washington

– February 11, 2022

“This is the opposite of what would define ‘public servants’ in any other role than in a farce. It seems like the Democratic leadership at both levels has given up on even pretending otherwise.” ~ Gary M. Galles

Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Government, Inflation

Fiscal Policy and Inflation

– February 10, 2022

“When it comes to fiscal policy, we’re off the edge of the map. The typical stories told by unreconstructed Keynesians are clearly wrong. But that doesn’t mean we never need to worry about fiscal inflation.” ~ Alexander W. Salter

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare

The Organ Shortage

– February 10, 2022

“From an economic perspective the decades-long organ shortage has a simple cause: paying organ donors is illegal. Price controls predictably produce shortages.” ~ Daniel Sutter

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, History

FSLICing America’s Public Health Bureaucracies

– February 10, 2022

“When Americans have to trust agency X, be it a deposit insurer or a public health authority, and X screws up so badly that it can no longer be trusted, X may, and should, be eliminated.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare

What Economics Can Tell Us About Mandating Vaccines

– February 9, 2022

“The question as to whether the vaccine should be mandatory begins with economics. What economics clearly tells us is that, at its root, this question revolves around property rights.” ~ Antony Davies

Crisis, Government, Regulation, Science

FDA’s Non Solution

– February 9, 2022

“HACCP is not a solution; it’s an instruction to find a solution. In this case, water contamination on farms, the FDA should admit it doesn’t have a solution. Sometimes, that’s the answer and the best possible thing they can do is to do nothing.” ~ Richard Williams

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Government

On Skepticism of Covid-19 Vaccines

– February 8, 2022

“Vaccination against Covid is insisted upon with the same fervor that religious zealots exhibited centuries ago when insisting upon the truths of their particular dogmas. Sensible people are naturally suspicious of such dogmatism and will resist becoming its victims.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Crisis, Government, Healthcare, Science

CDC Spreads Misinformation on Masking, Not Science

– February 7, 2022

“The American people are being misled, and they know it. Their trust in the CDC is falling. The CDC’s actions have completely bewildered the American people. If it continues down this road, it will only erode what little credibility it has left.” ~ David Waugh & Amelia Janaskie

Crisis, Economic Education, Government, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy

Covid-19’s Ratchet Effect is Becoming Endemic

– February 7, 2022

“Crises end, but newly designated powers and increased budgets governments receive throughout seldom end with them. Instead, government power exhibits a ratchet effect, never diminishing to pre-crisis levels.” ~ Raymond J. March