Daily Economy
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Consumers Who Want Privacy Are Finally Getting Their Way
“The Internet and the app economy might someday live up to their promise. Rather than invading our personal autonomy, collecting data, and monetizing every aspect of our lives, they might start showing some respect for people. In contrast, if there is one thing that we should have discovered about governments in the last year, it…
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Consumer Confidence Surges for a Second Month in a Row
“Consumer attitudes improved significantly again in April, as widening vaccine distribution and easing government restrictions boost economic activity and job prospects.” – Robert Hughes
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What Chess Can Teach Us About Economic Justice
“Congrats to all the hard-working chess-producers out there: you deserve every cent you earn – even the ones that governments steal from you. In any counterfactual world, we’d want somebody’s skills and work and knowledge, in which case they would deserve that wealth. It had to be someone, and it happened to be you. Congrats!”…
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The State Is Not Entrepreneurial
“But the State is not a company, and McCloskey and Mingardi dismantle the theoretical errors of Professor Mazzucato, who, like many others, prefers to ignore the analysis of the nature and consequences of the fundamental characteristic of the State: the monopoly of legitimate coercion.” ~ Carlos Rodríguez Braun
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Are Covid Fatalities Comparable with the 1918 Spanish Flu?
“It is clear that Covid-19 claimed many lives. However, it is also clear that there is a substantial presence of statistical noise from comorbidities and increases in death from other causes. This raises many questions not just about the collateral damage of our policy response, but also about whether we are even operating with the…
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Building Up the State Means Pulling People Down
“Mariana Mazzucato and Joe Biden are on ‘missions’ with ‘big plans.’ But their political missions and their big economic central plans require all of us to give up our own individual and personal plans to be straightjacketed into their compulsory designs for us. We need to remember Adam Smith’s words in The Wealth of Nations,…
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Government ‘Discrimination’ and the Age Profile of Covid-19 Fatalities
“It is, I believe, deeply misguided to insist that the principle of government even-handedness requires that government ignore the age profile of a disease’s victims. It is misguided to demand – either on grounds of equity or by noting, correctly, that all lives are sacred – that the policy response to a disease that overwhelmingly…
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Core Capital-Goods Orders Hit Another Record High in March
“Manufacturers’ new orders for durable goods rose in March, with core capital goods hitting another record high. The strong showing is a positive sign for the overall outlook.” – Robert Hughes
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The Department of Education Does Not Deserve A Raise
“Simply tossing more money into the public education bureaucracy will not make things better. In fact it will be rewarding the very people who have orchestrated the mess that we are in today. After everything that has been done to American students, there should be a bipartisan consensus that without bold structural reform every new…
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Restitution for Systemic Covidism
“These leaders are actually the ones who need to go, before their failed policies become so palpably criminal that Americans decide to strip them of their property, freedom, and perhaps, in a country increasingly devoid of effective police or rule of law, their very lives, in the name of restitution for systemic covidism and other…
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Consumers Who Want Privacy Are Finally Getting Their Way
“The Internet and the app economy might someday live up to their promise. Rather than invading our personal autonomy, collecting data, and monetizing every aspect of our lives, they might start showing some respect for people. In contrast, if there is one thing that we should have discovered about governments in the last year, it…
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Consumer Confidence Surges for a Second Month in a Row
“Consumer attitudes improved significantly again in April, as widening vaccine distribution and easing government restrictions boost economic activity and job prospects.” – Robert Hughes
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What Chess Can Teach Us About Economic Justice
“Congrats to all the hard-working chess-producers out there: you deserve every cent you earn – even the ones that governments steal from you. In any counterfactual world, we’d want somebody’s skills and work and knowledge, in which case they would deserve that wealth. It had to be someone, and it happened to be you. Congrats!”…
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The State Is Not Entrepreneurial
“But the State is not a company, and McCloskey and Mingardi dismantle the theoretical errors of Professor Mazzucato, who, like many others, prefers to ignore the analysis of the nature and consequences of the fundamental characteristic of the State: the monopoly of legitimate coercion.” ~ Carlos Rodríguez Braun
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Are Covid Fatalities Comparable with the 1918 Spanish Flu?
“It is clear that Covid-19 claimed many lives. However, it is also clear that there is a substantial presence of statistical noise from comorbidities and increases in death from other causes. This raises many questions not just about the collateral damage of our policy response, but also about whether we are even operating with the…
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Building Up the State Means Pulling People Down
“Mariana Mazzucato and Joe Biden are on ‘missions’ with ‘big plans.’ But their political missions and their big economic central plans require all of us to give up our own individual and personal plans to be straightjacketed into their compulsory designs for us. We need to remember Adam Smith’s words in The Wealth of Nations,…
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Government ‘Discrimination’ and the Age Profile of Covid-19 Fatalities
“It is, I believe, deeply misguided to insist that the principle of government even-handedness requires that government ignore the age profile of a disease’s victims. It is misguided to demand – either on grounds of equity or by noting, correctly, that all lives are sacred – that the policy response to a disease that overwhelmingly…
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Core Capital-Goods Orders Hit Another Record High in March
“Manufacturers’ new orders for durable goods rose in March, with core capital goods hitting another record high. The strong showing is a positive sign for the overall outlook.” – Robert Hughes
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•
The Department of Education Does Not Deserve A Raise
“Simply tossing more money into the public education bureaucracy will not make things better. In fact it will be rewarding the very people who have orchestrated the mess that we are in today. After everything that has been done to American students, there should be a bipartisan consensus that without bold structural reform every new…
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Restitution for Systemic Covidism
“These leaders are actually the ones who need to go, before their failed policies become so palpably criminal that Americans decide to strip them of their property, freedom, and perhaps, in a country increasingly devoid of effective police or rule of law, their very lives, in the name of restitution for systemic covidism and other…