Topic: Government

Test of Time: The Most Important Failure of US Covid Response

– September 15, 2021

“It is becoming clear that the U.S. failure to yoke up with the private sector is the most important, but least-commented on, failure of Covid response overall.” ~ Michael Munger

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Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death

– September 15, 2021

“Public health bureaucrats simply have no incentive to keep Americans healthy. Their budgets are misallocated and will continue to be so until their incentives are better aligned with those of American citizens.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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Red Light Robberies Across America

– September 14, 2021

“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard

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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism

– September 14, 2021

“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Military Equipment and the Labor Theory of Value

– September 13, 2021

“Ludwig von Mises once joked that only the government could take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it worthless. We appear to have a similar problem with military equipment.” ~ Clifford F. Theis

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How the Fed Can Improve Financial Stability and Reduce Inequality

– September 13, 2021

“There is clear evidence that bank deregulation can improve financial stability while also shrinking inequality. By lowering the costs of doing business, strong but simple regulations improve job opportunities for low-skilled and minority workers.” ~ Thomas L. Hogan & Amelia Janaskie

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Political Rhetoric Hides the Reality of Peaceful Production vs. Plunder

– September 12, 2021

“Society is composed of one set of people who work and save and who produce and exchange, and another set of people who wish to politically acquire and consume what others have saved and produced.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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A Subtle Catastrophe

– September 11, 2021

“This is not what winning looks like. This looks like yet another President declaring his way to the policy outcomes he wants by executive order, Covid style.” ~ James R. Harrigan

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When Grand Histories Go Wrong

– September 10, 2021

“Coggan embarked on an ambitious scheme to tell us about economic growth through the ages. In that he succeeds, but the account leaves much else to be desired.” ~ Joakim Book

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The Paradox of Turnkey Totalitarianism

– September 10, 2021

“The upshot of Turnkey Totalitarianism is deeply problematic, even though there are evil geniuses among the citizenry. After all, wasn’t it very likely a small group of government technocrats who unleashed the Covid-19 pandemic?” ~ Max Borders

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America’s Medici Moment?

– September 10, 2021

“And thus corporations are led, by an invisible hand, to promote an end which was no part of their intention, the simultaneous enrichment of themselves and empowerment of party partisans.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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Stronger, More Robust Natural Immunity Thwarts Any Case for “Vaccine Passports”

– September 9, 2021

“Even taken on their own merits, these prohibitions amount to nothing more than a coin flip against each and every person turned away. Considered in full, they are cruel, discriminatory, and ultimately self-defeating.” ~ Jon Sanders

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