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02 Apr Understanding The Rise In Inflation Expectations

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Inflation expectations are on the rise. At first sight, this change in expectations seems to be odd. The Federal Reserve has been increasing the supply of base money at a historical rate since 2008. In December 2020, base money was 6 times greater than it...

02 Apr In praise of Alex Tabarrok

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Here’s a question I’ve been mulling in recent months: Is Alex Tabarrok right? Are people dying because our coronavirus response is far too conservative? I don’t mean conservative in the politicized, left-right sense. Tabarrok, an economist at George Mason University and a blogger at Marginal Revolution,...

02 Apr The Time Has Come for Anti-Lockdown Amendments

Posted at 06:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The most beautiful thing about a constitution is that it establishes boundaries for those wielding power to abide by. A constitution is what establishes some semblance of legitimacy because, without guaranteed limits on power, what are politicians but egotistical thugs? Even if such powers are...

02 Apr Just Because There’s No Price Doesn’t Mean There’s No Cost: Covid-19 Vaccine Edition

Posted at 06:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As the Great Suppression enters its second year and as people go to greater and greater lengths to get vaccinated, I remember one of the conclusions we reach when we analyze how price controls hurt the people we ostensibly want to help: you can suppress...

02 Apr Cancel Culture Is Just the Beginning

Posted at 06:13h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Imagine the jackboots kick in your door at midnight and haul you off to a reeducation camp because of that tweet. (Which one? Does it matter?) You think about resisting but then you realize that your assailants are not government employees but rather the hired...

02 Apr Why Young Adults Are the Most Frightened of COVID, Even Though They Are the Least at Risk

Posted at 06:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Nearly 3 million Americans are being vaccinated against COVID-19 each day, but the “return to normal” may not be as close as many hope. A new survey shows many Americans have concerns about interacting with others once the pandemic is over. “A YouGov poll of more than...

02 Apr A Decade of Emergent Order, Our Family Journey

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10 years ago today, Joshua Meyers, Lisa Versaci and I teamed up to turn a side-hustle into our full-time business and new career path. We went all-in, voted with our feet and moved our families from NY and NJ to Austin, TX and never looked...

02 Apr Further estimates on the cost of climate change and global warming

Posted at 06:07h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Sea level rise will cause spatial shifts in economic activity over the next 200 years. Using a spatially disaggregated, dynamic model of the world economy, this paper estimates the consequences of probabilistic projections of local sea level changes. Under an intermediate scenario of greenhouse gas...

02 Apr Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 06:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 181 of Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.’s wonderful 2019 book, Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism (footnote deleted): Happiness depends more on freedom and hope for the future than on current income. Read the Full Article here:...

01 Apr Daniel Hannan: I hate everything about the lockdown. But most of all, how much we like being bossed around.

Posted at 06:07h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere is a Conservative peer, writer and columnist. He was a Conservative MEP from 1999 to 2020, and is now President of the Initiative for Free Trade. I hate everything about the lockdown. I hate the confiscation of liberty, and the ease with...

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