Bringing You A Different Perspective – Peace And Prosperity Are Maximized Through Free Markets, Not Through Suffocating Governments
April 10, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… There is a misconception among critics of the COVID-19 lockdowns that they’re being imposed over the howls of the local population, which wants freedom. If only that were true.
April 10, 2020 – Cory D. Carpenter …… The quality of the models being used by politicians to set COVID-19 policy is only as good as the data collected. Unfortunately, the data is not very good. Meanwhile, real costs arise from the ruined economy.
April 9, 2020 – Shane J. Coules …… What we can learn from the Patriot Act is that during a time of crisis governments can pass legislation that impacts citizens’ lives long after the crisis of the day has passed.
April 9, 2020 – Claus Wiemann Frølund …… Noneconomists struggle to realize that scarcity results in the necessity of tradeoffs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this difference in thinking causes them to wrongly accuse economists of “prioritizing money over lives.”
April 8, 2020 – Bradley Thomas …… The Left conveniently ignores dozens of state-dominated and state-controlled medical systems and decides that the lack of preparedness for COVID-19 was all the fault of those small slivers of healthcare systems that are actually private.
April 7, 2020 – Jeff Deist …… The coronavirus demonstrates how crises become local.
April 7, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… How much must total mortality increase to justify a global suspension of commerce and the rule of law? One percent? Ten percent? And what if overall mortality doesn’t even go up?
April 6, 2020 – Ross Marchand …… A recent study by MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Boston University found that consumers care far more about reviews and prices than government-mandated credentials.
April 5, 2020 – Shawnna Morris …… We have never been better-equipped to cope with a nationwide quarantine of schoolchildren.
April 2, 2020 – Matthew Tanous …… What needs to be done in such a crisis is not to attempt to steer the market to ensure it provides what is needed, but to let it free to do what it always does: match the goals of entrepreneurial producers with the needs of the populace.