Topic: Government

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

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government

Understanding GDP

– February 8, 2022

“GDP is a crude measure of economic performance, but it captures a tremendous amount of information in a single number. It provides a one-dimensional measure of the output of a complex and multidimensional modern exchange economy.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan

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

Books, Economic Education, Government

A Review of Weber’s Bureaucratic Method and Why Today’s Bureaucrats Should Take Note

– February 6, 2022

“While organizations today would likely be stunted by Weber’s assertions for rules and rigidity, political pundits may be kept better in line and on task if they were to be managed properly in structural reform and with a hefty amount of accountability.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson

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

What Can Hayek Say About Public Health?

– February 5, 2022

“Public health as art, following Hayek, becomes a social science, or the study of how people make choices based on their values and tacit knowledge, how they interact with others, and how those behaviors and interactions influence health.” ~ Byron B. Carson III