Daily Economy
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Improving Job Market Pushes Consumer Sentiment Up Again in Early June
Consumer attitudes are improving along with the labor market, but significant concerns regarding the outlook remain.
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The Three Best and Worst Ideas of the Crisis
“I picked as my three best policies ones that target America’s most significant looming issues. (Some of these issues, unsurprisingly, were created by government interventions in the first place.) Good policies, of course, should allow for flexibility and innovation without bankrupting future generations.” ~ Veronique de Rugy
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The Internet Is No Substitute for Real Life
“Remember that many commercial enterprises provide you not only with the goods and services you desire, but the vital space with which we all need to craft friendships, trust, and empathy. Without that, economies don’t function well. No supply-and-demand graph can ever capture that fully. You have to live it to believe it.” ~ Tony…
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Can We Talk About Something Else Now?
“We might, as the protesters I heard on the radio, remember that other things matter too, that one type of risk must be balanced by the harms of another, that risk-mitigating policies be proportionate to the damage, that few things warrant the wholesale closing of commerce and civil society.” ~ Joakim Book
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The Day First-World Problems Became Real
“We’ve learned that government can and will destroy our prosperity and rights under the smallest pretext. We can no longer take our freedom and opportunities for granted. We must work unrelentingly to get back what we had and make sure we lockdown our governments so that nothing like this will ever happen again.” ~ Jeffrey…
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Labor Market on the Mend as Lockdowns Ease
Continued slowing of initial claims and a drop in unemployment are among the signs the economy may be bottoming and setting the stage for recovery.
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Free Down Payments and Subsidized Mortgages are Not Social Justice
“Despite 50 years of debacles, politicians are still glorified for pretending that free downpayments and subsidized mortgages are “magic beans” that multiply social justice in America.” ~ James Bovard
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It Is Time To Call Shenanigans!
“If scientists truly knew nothing about SARS-COV-2 then they should have advocated doing nothing until it was well enough understood to proffer effective policies lest they inadvertently contribute to its spread.” ~ Robert Wright
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American History Reveals the Alternative to the Police State
“There is ample evidence that decriminalization of Americans’ personal lives, the proliferation of gun ownership, and the encouragement of competitive markets for property insurance and private protection services can greatly improve upon our current monopolistic, union-controlled, taxpayer-funded machines of state repression.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The Fatal Conceit of COVID-19 Epidemic Models
“The epidemiological world has published countless articles and studies warning against the tendency and ease with which one can overestimate Ro. We have fallen prey to this tendency once again.” Gregory van Kipnis
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Improving Job Market Pushes Consumer Sentiment Up Again in Early June
Consumer attitudes are improving along with the labor market, but significant concerns regarding the outlook remain.
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•
The Three Best and Worst Ideas of the Crisis
“I picked as my three best policies ones that target America’s most significant looming issues. (Some of these issues, unsurprisingly, were created by government interventions in the first place.) Good policies, of course, should allow for flexibility and innovation without bankrupting future generations.” ~ Veronique de Rugy
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The Internet Is No Substitute for Real Life
“Remember that many commercial enterprises provide you not only with the goods and services you desire, but the vital space with which we all need to craft friendships, trust, and empathy. Without that, economies don’t function well. No supply-and-demand graph can ever capture that fully. You have to live it to believe it.” ~ Tony…
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Can We Talk About Something Else Now?
“We might, as the protesters I heard on the radio, remember that other things matter too, that one type of risk must be balanced by the harms of another, that risk-mitigating policies be proportionate to the damage, that few things warrant the wholesale closing of commerce and civil society.” ~ Joakim Book
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The Day First-World Problems Became Real
“We’ve learned that government can and will destroy our prosperity and rights under the smallest pretext. We can no longer take our freedom and opportunities for granted. We must work unrelentingly to get back what we had and make sure we lockdown our governments so that nothing like this will ever happen again.” ~ Jeffrey…
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Labor Market on the Mend as Lockdowns Ease
Continued slowing of initial claims and a drop in unemployment are among the signs the economy may be bottoming and setting the stage for recovery.
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•
Free Down Payments and Subsidized Mortgages are Not Social Justice
“Despite 50 years of debacles, politicians are still glorified for pretending that free downpayments and subsidized mortgages are “magic beans” that multiply social justice in America.” ~ James Bovard
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•
It Is Time To Call Shenanigans!
“If scientists truly knew nothing about SARS-COV-2 then they should have advocated doing nothing until it was well enough understood to proffer effective policies lest they inadvertently contribute to its spread.” ~ Robert Wright
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American History Reveals the Alternative to the Police State
“There is ample evidence that decriminalization of Americans’ personal lives, the proliferation of gun ownership, and the encouragement of competitive markets for property insurance and private protection services can greatly improve upon our current monopolistic, union-controlled, taxpayer-funded machines of state repression.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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The Fatal Conceit of COVID-19 Epidemic Models
“The epidemiological world has published countless articles and studies warning against the tendency and ease with which one can overestimate Ro. We have fallen prey to this tendency once again.” Gregory van Kipnis