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....
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Why Central Planning by Medical Experts Will Lead to Disaster
by Gary Galles | Apr 10, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
A great deal of the coverage of the COVID-19 crisis has been apocalyptic. That is partly because “if it bleeds, it leads.” But it is also because some of the medical experts with media megaphones have put forward potentially catastrophic scenarios and drastic plans to...
News Roundup 4/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 10, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The Baltimore police are planning to deploy an aerial surveillance system capable of tracking people’s outdoor movements in 90% of the city. The program is expected to cost $3.7 million in 2020. [Link] Kentucky frees 1,000 nonviolent prisoners. [Link] The FED...
The Fed’s War on Savings
by Jp Cortez | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog, Economics
During a March 17 address to the nation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump asked that Americans work from home, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. Ten days later, Trump signed a stimulus...
COVID-19 Patients and Their Families Are Being Put on Police-Enforced Lockdown
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Reason magazine's Elizabeth Nolan Brown has a great run-down of all the power-mad police state freaks exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to expand their powers over Americans lives. As the old flyer a punk-rocker handed me on the drag across from UT Austin back in 1993...
Crisis Exposes Devastating Consequences of Fed Policy: Americans Have No Savings
by Jp Cortez | Apr 8, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
Two weeks ago, during a March 17 address to the nation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, President Donald Trump asked that Americans work from home, postpone unnecessary travel, and limit social gatherings to no more than 10 people. And last week, on March 27,...
Hospitals Say Feds Are Seizing Masks and Other Coronavirus Supplies
by Scott Horton | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
L.A. Times: "Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get...
Full Text of Peter Navarro’s Memos on Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog
They had all the prior knowledge and advice about how to handle it that they needed way back in January. And did nothing. And here Scott Sumner has a great summary of the government's failings in this crisis.
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My Body My Choice: Abolish Occupational Licensing
The most immediate effect of licensing is to restrict the number of practitioners because of the higher entry costs involved in meeting the qualifications of the activity. Some licenses, as in the cases of cosmeticians and barbers, require many months of schooling....
Progressives Are Domestic Imperialists
Progressives will fight tooth and nail to make sure every citizen gets a 1 in 100,000,000 vote between two politicians every four years since it allows the political system to reflect the wishes of the population at large. However, when those very same voters try to...
Leaked Pentagon Documents: A Thread
What follows are highlights from the trove of leaked US government documents that appeared on the internet sometime last month, including a handful of the documents themselves, reporting on the material, my own observations, as well as official statements and...
Interview Show 20th Anniversary
I started on the radio in late 1998, but today is the 20th anniversary of the interview show. First of 5,894 so far was the great Alan Bock on Iraq, three days after the marines pulled down Saddam's statue in Baghdad. The full archive is here.
The Robber Barons: Historical Fact vs. Progressive Mythology
The standard theory of monopoly within the mainstream of the economics profession is that monopolies increase prices and reduce production levels compared to competitive industries. So I gathered historical economic data on prices and production for seventeen of the...
Conversation on Bro History Podcast
I had a great conversation on Zionism, antisemitism, and the Palestine question with Henry Szamota and Danny Abdeljabbar on the Bro History podcast, which you can find in all the usual podcast places. Or listen here. I hope you enjoy it.
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