Think you’d know that by now.
Cell phone video shot yesterday on the 145th Street subway platform in Harlem shows a group of NYPD officers terrorizing a little boy for allegedly selling candy. pic.twitter.com/rWOj0nabGp
— Rebecca Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) April 12, 2020
Sunday will be the third anniversary of the death of the great William Norman Grigg. He really was the most eloquent speaker and writer in the libertarian movement, and the current crisis just reminds me all the more how valuable his insight was. And he was a good friend.
Our very best goes out to Will’s great family.
We will never forget him.
Who’s the worst bad guy in that one?
Hey, Israel First, right Republicans?
Ezra Klein explains three plans that are being seriously considered for re-opening the economy.
There are times i wish I was wrong and this is one of them.
This is not good.
What the hell is this, England?
“I was just shocked that the judge would take this stance without talking to medical experts and knowing the facts and take it so lightly, take my child from me and not think of the effect on her, her mental and psychological well-being,” she said.
Judge Bernard Shapiro is a criminal. May equivalent harm come to him.
From the Contracorner (paywall):
It took 213 years and 43 presidents—-from George Washington to Dubya Bush—- to generate the first $6 trillion of public debt. Now a mad man in the Oval Office and a herd of Capitol Hill larcenists will be doing it in just 700 days.
Actually, at the rate they are going we think it could be even worse. For instance, during the first six business days last April, Uncle Sam collected $87.5 billion in tax receipts, but this year during the same six days the take plummeted by 20% to just $70.1 billion; and that occurred before employer withholding payments were fully zapped by the 17 million of initial unemployment claims filed during the last three weeks.
You might wonder whether the numbskulls down in Washington are out of their minds. Even Goldman Sachs now forecasts that the budget deficit will hit $3.6 trillion in FY 2020 or an incredible 16% of GDP; and that the two-year total (including FY 2021) might hit $6 trillion.
Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of the investment firm Social Capital explains how capitalism is supposed to work.
“What we’ve done is disproportionately prop up poor-performing CEOs and boards, and you have to wash these people out.”
The U.S. shouldn’t bail out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic, Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says. “Who cares? Let them get wiped out.” https://t.co/dIbizumtqG pic.twitter.com/fsoP3ITQDa
— CNBC (@CNBC) April 10, 2020
No, NYC Is Not Running Out of Burial Space Due to COVID-19 by Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
tl;dr: it’s sad but not new.
