Virtual Seminars on the World Crisis (Video)
If there is one lesson we should learn it is that diseases should be managed as medical matters, not opportunities for politicians and regulators to try out their theories and powers on the rest of the population.
READ MOREStand Up for Your Rights, says Bio-Statistician Knut M. Wittkowski
“I think people in the United States and maybe other countries as well are more docile than they should be. People should talk with their politicians, question them, ask them to explain, because if people don’t stand up to their rights, their rights will be forgotten.”
READ MOREUse and Abuse of Statistical Models in COVID19 (Video)
In absence of factual tests, the void has been filled by statistical forecasts, many of which suffer from some of the same fallacies as historical models. Compounding the problem is that these models are being created in real time. These models have contributed to social and political panic.
READ MORECoronavirus and Economic Crisis (Video)
In a shockingly short period of time, life in the US went from normal and happy to uncertain and essentially terrifying. The economic impact of both the virus and the policy response to the virus is without precedent. This video explores the unfolding …
READ MOREThe Economy Could Indeed Roar Back (Video)
If we come out of this, it will be due to markets. FOX Business’ Neil Cavuto hosted me and tax attorney Rebecca Walser to discuss how crucial it is for the financial markets to remain open and how the government shutdown will affect small businesses.
READ MOREStringham on Economic and Financial Stress (video)
I’m pleased to be facing a high demand right now to get on the media and make comments on the continuing market turmoil. Here is a recent appearance on Fox.
READ MOREWhy Don’t Things Work Anymore? (Video)
I enjoyed being on the show Full Measure to discuss government regulations on gas cans and other things like showers, toilets, dishwashers, hot water heaters, and so on. My first writings on this topic are from Bourbon for Breakfast and I’ve been writi …
READ MOREThe Dangers of Mandatory Paid Leave (Video)
At a recent hearing on Paid Family Leave before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., thought herself brave and appropriate to harangue the only free-market witness – one out of seven – there. Paid-leave advoc …
READ MOREInsights into Bastiat’s Libertarianism (Video)
Bastiat sometimes voted with the right and sometimes with the left. He was loved and loathed by both sides.
READ MOREHow Does One Campaign Against a Strong Economy (Video)
Here I and New York Post editorial board member Kelly Jane Torrance joined a panel hosted by Neal Cavuto to discuss the economic gains made by America’s poorest and how the Democrats will run against the successful economy under President Trump. https: …
READ MOREWho Was Claude-Frédéric Bastiat? Video with David Hart (Part 2)
Bastiat’s writings showed the very great depth of his economic thinking and made advances which heralded the Austrian school of economics which emerged later in the century. Bastiat to the end was an indefatigable foe of political privilege, unaccounta …
READ MOREWho Was Bastiat? Interview with David Hart (Video)
David Hart is an historian and a libertarian with interests in the history of the classical liberal tradition (especially the French), war and culture, libertarian class theory, and film. Frédéric Bastiat was a pivotal figure in French classical libera …
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