Topic: Government

What Can We Lose To China By Isolating Afghanistan?

– September 3, 2021

“Although the United States may be withdrawing its military, continued engagement through diplomatic and economic means could go a long way in mitigating an already tragic situation.” ~ Ethan Yang

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Lessons from the Financial Instability Hypothesis

– September 2, 2021

“The Covid-19 recession was not triggered by financial causes, but the ballooning government debt the U.S. is currently pursuing, recklessly and with a vengeance, can only substitute a new unsustainable expansion for a sustainable recovery.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan

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The Totalitarian Roots of Vaccine Mandates

– September 2, 2021

“The end to the pandemic requires not that we follow the collectivists but that we are free to consider different perspectives and discover in the course of an uncoerced social process what really works.” ~ Barry Brownstein

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Panetta Says We Will Return to Afghanistan

– September 1, 2021

“Those who claimed that we could transform Afghanistan into a democracy only revealed that they don’t know much about what is involved in establishing liberty and the rule of law.” ~ Clifford F. Thies

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Liberalism’s Enemies

Liberalism’s Enemies

– August 31, 2021

“If we’re going to have to pick a team soon, then, we should no longer be asking whether that team is left or right. We should be asking whether that team is liberal or illiberal.” ~ Max Borders

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Afghanistan’s Taliban Is Evil, but Don’t Isolate the Afghan People

– August 31, 2021

“Today the situation looks bleak. But it is not set. Americans should continue to do what they can to generate an alternate future for the tormented country.” ~ Doug Bandow

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On Track for Calamitous Policy Outcomes

– August 31, 2021

“I fear that humanity’s response to Covid has put us on a terrible track, one destined to deposit us all in a horrific place.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

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Hurricane Ida Threatens Global Plastic Markets

– August 30, 2021

“Of the many industries which have been strained to the limit of their capacity over the last eighteen months, few have struggled as mightily as the resins and plastics sector.” ~ Peter C. Earle

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Incremental or Radical Policy Reform?

– August 30, 2021

“Incrementalists and radical advocates of liberty should not joust each other too much because they face a formidable common enemy, paternalistic statists who assume, rather than establish, the superiority of top-down, one-size-fits-all government ‘solutions’ to individual problems.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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COVID-19 Vaccines and the Delta Variant

– August 30, 2021

“Government agencies should be studying North Dakota to see what they are doing right and Hawaii to see what they are doing wrong, because the answers are not vaccination rates.” ~ Gilbert G. Berdine

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Made in France: Biden’s Fiscal and Regulatory Socialism

– August 29, 2021

“President Biden has chosen to impose an old and expired French ideological import known as indicative planning. We can look forward to even more fiscal and regulatory socialism in the months and years to come.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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The Biden Administration’s Shameful Treatment of Keysight Technologies

– August 27, 2021

“The Biden administration’s actions meant to bolster U.S. national security weren’t enhanced one iota by its tactless mugging of Keysight’s shareholders.” ~ John Tamny

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