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Isabel Paterson is the Poetic Justice Warrior for the American Ideals of Property, Production and Profit

May 13, 2020

Fear and want are subjective. Poverty is the absence of wealth. If no man should ever stand naked, who is to produce clothes? Who is to have absolute power over every person? The only condition in which no one can experience poverty, want, or fear, is rigor mortis.

Technology Improves Lives By Generating More Output From Less Labor. The Government’s PPP Aims To Achieve The Opposite.

May 12, 2020

Government cannot ever play investor, lender, or anything else. And it needn’t play those roles. The only answer, as always, is to end the lockdowns as soon as possible so that businesses can resume with market-disciplined investors and the marketplace itself guiding their decisions.

What Have We Learned?

May 11, 2020

Forecasting is a delicate balance of probabilities. But people want certainty, especially when the stakes are high. The people who make forecasting models probably have less faith in their accuracy than those who read them, if only because things like confidence intervals are rarely discussed in the media.

Democratic Governors Demonstrate That Temporary Possession Of Emergency Powers Reveals The Hidden Tyrant In The Most Unremarkable Politicians.

May 10, 2020

Virtually all Democratic Governors have overreached their legitimate mandates, and few show any inclination to relinquish their newfound authority. These governors behave as if they recognize no legal boundaries.

More Than Any Other, F.A.Hayek Provides The Enlightenment For Escape From The Collectivist Intellectual Environment.

May 9, 2020

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek.s.”

The Free Market Solution Is So Obviously Better Than The Government’s Solution – To COVID-19 And Everything Else.

May 8, 2020

The argument is for allowing the market to define the strategy. For example, the elderly might consider taking chloroquine preventively; it has a long history of being taken to prevent malaria in Africa. It is naïve to think that people can’t inform themselves and take appropriate actions for their own health benefits.

There’s a COVID-19 War On The Human Right To Work — Led Largely By Smug Intellectuals, Billionaires, And Politicians.

May 7, 2020

Some especially out-of-touch pro-shutdown "COVID Warriors" rationalize it all by insisting that these prohibitions on earning a living are, as Dr. Anthony Fauci claims, mere inconveniences. It's easy to see why someone like Fauci might think this way. His government salary is $400,000 dollars, and there is little risk he'll be missing any mortgage payments any time soon.

Dr. Amesh Adalja Unmasks the Political Overlords Who Ignore the Medical Principle of Do No Harm.

May 6, 2020

Dr. Adalja and his colleagues have been talking about this for years and years, writing report after report. This virus isn't going anywhere. We will be dealing with it for at least two more years. We need to find the right balance of controlling the virus and keeping the economy functioning.

We Are Forced To Endure Ignorance And Malfeasance From Those Who Govern Us – Unless We Demand Otherwise.

May 5, 2020

But as bad as the CDC is, they can only be charged with incompetence, not malfeasance. The latter indictment applies to America’s economic experts, especially those in charge of monetary policy.

What If They Gave A Pandemic And No-One Stayed Home?

May 4, 2020

The only actions governments took was to collect data, watch and wait, encourage testing and vaccines, and so on. The medical community took the primary responsibility for disease mitigation, as one might expect. It was widely assumed that diseases require medical not political responses.

Is There Any Reason To Believe The Chinese Communist Party Is Any Worse Than The Democrats And Republicans?

May 3, 2020

Suffocated people couldn’t have rebuilt Chinese cities into architectural marvels, with skyscraper density that makes Manhattan seem undeveloped. Thoroughly muzzled people wouldn’t be gorging on all things American at a rate that sets “communist” China up to soon be the largest market in the world for capitalist-produced American plenty.

This Is The Government Economy. Better Get Used To It.

May 2, 2020

Wednesday’s initial estimate for first quarter economic growth, which shrank at a 4.8% annual rate. Governments shut down private commerce in March, and the private investment and consumption that drive American prosperity fell off a cliff. And we’re only part of the way down.

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