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.”...
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Reason Provides Correct Context to NY Mass Grave Photos
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.
Bernie Drops Out Amid Corona Craziness
On FPF #477, I discuss what impact Bernie Sanders dropping out of the race could have on US foreign policy. Bernie held a more non-interventionist view than Trump or Biden. However, Bernie was never willing to put the foreign policy first or challenge his opponents on...
Putting Sugar in a Gas Tank is Easy
That's what I would do if some scumbag ripped me off like this. And that's if I'm in a good mood. Smashing a window or slashing a couple tires is pretty easy too. And I hear the cops have decided to stop enforcing laws against such acts in a few major cities already....
The Fed’s War on Savings
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
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...
WSJ: To Curb the Coronavirus, Hong Kong Tells the World Masks Work
See here: "In Hong Kong, there was never any doubt about the need for face masks. Most people here, including an epidemiologist helping guide the response, are adamant that widespread mask use has been crucial in keeping the city from becoming a viral hot zone. “If...
Kentucky Governor Frees Some Non-Violent Inmates
And you cannot make this stuff up: "The state is working to manufacture PPE, according to the governor, but the process is somewhat hindered by intellectual property constraints." Ain't it funny how cops, DAs, judges and other government employees don't worry one bit...
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