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02 Apr Coronavirus: 10 Public Safety Regulations Set Aside in the Name of Public Safety

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Politicians and bureaucrats spend a lot of their time making new laws and regulations to "protect the public," but now that the public is really in danger, the government is realizing that setting many of them aside is essential for our safety.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube...

02 Apr An Alternative to the Lockdown Strategy in the Fight Against Coronavirus

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The current coronavirus strategy of most governments is a recipe for a worldwide economic disaster. In many countries, the strategy of confinement and forcing shops to close is a sure-fire path to large-scale business failures. The cascade of economic and financial repercussions to come...

01 Apr Niall Ferguson: COVID-19 in the Light of History and Network Science

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Recorded on March 31, 2020Recorded March 31, 2020, 11AM PSTHoover Institution Fellow Niall Ferguson provides a briefing on COVID-19 In The Light Of History And Network Science. The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual briefing series on pressing policy issues, including health care, the economy,...

31 Mar As research progresses, the nature of our enemy is becoming ever clearer

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My article for The Telegraph: ‘This pestilence was so powerful that it was transmitted to the healthy by contact with the sick” wrote Giovanni Boccaccio of the Black Death, in his preface to The Decameron. The trouble with the coronavirus is almost exactly the opposite...

31 Mar A Vision of Post-Pandemic New York

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Once this is over, the city will be younger, cheaper, poorer and segregated in a new way. Read the Full Article here: >Tyler Cowen - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist...

31 Mar What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?

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The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has been matched by the imposing of radical shutdowns and compulsory mass quarantining as tens of millions of people are told to...

31 Mar How are free-market think tanks doing on social media?

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How are free-market think tanks doing on social media? Alejandro Chafuen, Acton’s Managing Director, International, posted his annual analysis of think tanks’ use of social media last week in Forbes. He wrote: Due to the coronavirus pandemic think tanks around the world are working under quarantine and have...

29 Mar Coronavirus as Ideology

Posted at 22:50h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Like you, I try to get out once a day to keep clarity of mind, whether out for a walk or, even better, to experience something of commercial life out there, truncated as it might be. Businesses doing business, wealth being created despite...

29 Mar The Grumpy Economist: Coronavirus And The Road To Recovery

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Blank Section (Placeholder)Blank Section (Placeholder)Analysis and Commentary interview with John H. Cochranevia The Grumpy Economist | A Podcast with John H. CochraneHoover Institution on COVID-19Hoover Daily ReportHow economic policy can help America bounce back — and how it can go wrong. Read the Full Article here:...

29 Mar Russ Roberts On Coronavirus: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of The Economic Shutdown (15:02)

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Image credit: istockInterviewsBlank Section (Placeholder) interview with Russell Robertsvia Hoover Institution on COVID-19Capital Isn'tHoover Institution fellow Russ Roberts talks about the cost-benefit analysis of whether it would be better to keep the economy closed or opened during the coronavirus. Read the Full Article here: >Hoover Institution...

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