Economic Trends
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The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
The “individualism” that Dr. Coyle scornfully criticizes is really the liberty of each one of us to more fully design and direct our own lives in peaceful and mutually productive associations inside and outside of the marketplace, rather than turning that freedom over to the political paternalists desiring to tell us how to live, think…
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Negative Oil Prices – Economic Implications
The price of oil and gas will be resurgent in 2021, if not before; sadly, the world economy may take a while longer to heal.
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“I’ve Lost Faith in Humanity”: The Psychological Toll of the Lockdown
I asked people on my Twitter feed to tell their stories. My inbox has been flooded with an outpouring of desperate sadness, rage, shock, and horror. I can only share some with you here. I’m changing any details that might violate their privacy rights.
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A Public Choice Warning About Media
Don’t expect the media to be a watchdog for accountability in its current manifestation, but instead be your own watchdog by learning to critically question the concepts and facts presented.
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There Will Be Blowback, In Mostly Good Ways
Our lives in the coming years will be defined by forms of backlash, as a much needed corrective. You can’t take away everyone’s rights, put a whole people under house arrest, and abolish the rule of law without generating a response to that in the future.
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Why No Shortages in Canada as Compared with the U.S.?
In contrast to Canada, which has no national restrictions against price gouging, 39 American states now have stringent laws or executive orders against raising prices during emergencies.
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Work Is Happiness, but Politicians Destroyed It
The problem yet again is that politicians on all levels panicked, and having panicked, they foisted cruel, one-size-fits-all solutions on their constituents that resulted in sick-inducing job loss and bankruptcy. In the process they robbed millions of what gives them daily meaning and happiness.
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Mortality Rates Were Already Rising in America. Why?
In 2017 alone, counts Case and Deaton, 158,000 Americans died from deaths of despair, most of them white; almost all of them with, at best, a high school diploma.
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Will there Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World?
Fully entering into such a world, we really would be in George Orwell’s “newspeak:” coercion is liberty; command and control is freedom; political paternalism is self-realization; government planning is free association; collective decision-making is personal choice.
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The Virtues of Fiscal Discipline
Deficits used to be temporary affairs racked up in exceptional periods as the result of shocks, and paid down with surpluses. Despite years of decent economic growth, public debts in most western countries remain at high levels relative to GDP. Consequently, capacity to respond to crisis – such as natural disasters, wars and the one…
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The Coronavirus and the Attack on Liberty and Privacy
The “individualism” that Dr. Coyle scornfully criticizes is really the liberty of each one of us to more fully design and direct our own lives in peaceful and mutually productive associations inside and outside of the marketplace, rather than turning that freedom over to the political paternalists desiring to tell us how to live, think…
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Negative Oil Prices – Economic Implications
The price of oil and gas will be resurgent in 2021, if not before; sadly, the world economy may take a while longer to heal.
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•
“I’ve Lost Faith in Humanity”: The Psychological Toll of the Lockdown
I asked people on my Twitter feed to tell their stories. My inbox has been flooded with an outpouring of desperate sadness, rage, shock, and horror. I can only share some with you here. I’m changing any details that might violate their privacy rights.
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•
A Public Choice Warning About Media
Don’t expect the media to be a watchdog for accountability in its current manifestation, but instead be your own watchdog by learning to critically question the concepts and facts presented.
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•
There Will Be Blowback, In Mostly Good Ways
Our lives in the coming years will be defined by forms of backlash, as a much needed corrective. You can’t take away everyone’s rights, put a whole people under house arrest, and abolish the rule of law without generating a response to that in the future.
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•
Why No Shortages in Canada as Compared with the U.S.?
In contrast to Canada, which has no national restrictions against price gouging, 39 American states now have stringent laws or executive orders against raising prices during emergencies.
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•
Work Is Happiness, but Politicians Destroyed It
The problem yet again is that politicians on all levels panicked, and having panicked, they foisted cruel, one-size-fits-all solutions on their constituents that resulted in sick-inducing job loss and bankruptcy. In the process they robbed millions of what gives them daily meaning and happiness.
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•
Mortality Rates Were Already Rising in America. Why?
In 2017 alone, counts Case and Deaton, 158,000 Americans died from deaths of despair, most of them white; almost all of them with, at best, a high school diploma.
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•
Will there Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World?
Fully entering into such a world, we really would be in George Orwell’s “newspeak:” coercion is liberty; command and control is freedom; political paternalism is self-realization; government planning is free association; collective decision-making is personal choice.
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•
The Virtues of Fiscal Discipline
Deficits used to be temporary affairs racked up in exceptional periods as the result of shocks, and paid down with surpluses. Despite years of decent economic growth, public debts in most western countries remain at high levels relative to GDP. Consequently, capacity to respond to crisis – such as natural disasters, wars and the one…