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19 Mar Implementing Federal lending

Posted at 11:17h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The central problem now is how the Federal government can lend money to businesses that need it -- without a budget blowout. I proposed letting people borrow from the IRS which has a pretty good mechanism for getting repaid. Martin Lowy has a more detailed...

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19 Mar Just the facts about the coronavirus

Posted at 04:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has invited people around the world to take a sober approach to life and social relations. But it has also spread a potentially worse contagion throughout society: panic. At the Acton Institute’s Religion & Liberty Transatlantic website, James Agresti dispenses the...

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18 Mar Government COVID-19 Tests Were Awful, Now Private Labs Are Saving the Day

Posted at 23:25h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. As of Friday afternoon, there are 132,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, and the global death toll has topped 5,000 people. The fast-spreading virus claimed 196 lives in Italy, on Tuesday alone. At this time, 90...

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18 Mar Holding the Line: Maintaining Fiscal and Monetary Policy Boundaries in the Midst of a Crisis

Posted at 23:06h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

George Selgin Not long ago, the CMFA staff and I were preparing to officially launch The Menace of Fiscal QE, my book aimed at countering efforts to have the Fed undertake or otherwise fund off-budget government spending programs. Then came the crisis. Of course our plans were...

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18 Mar Government Is No Match for the Coronavirus

Posted at 22:54h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The coronavirus is reminding everyone that you cannot rely on government and that ultimately it is the private sector that will provide the solutions. Many nonmedical government officials and members of the media are predicting massive cases of COVID-19 and death, when in fact no...

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18 Mar Empty Shelves Are Not a Result of Free Market Capitalism

Posted at 22:51h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

You’ve seen the pictures on your social media feeds: Empty shelves across America. Panic-buying. Hoarding. You might have even seen comments from self-described socialists saying, “Here’s what the US looks like under capitalism in a crisis” and perhaps mocking people who point to regularly...

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18 Mar Wrong Lessons That May Be Learned from the Coronavirus Crisis

Posted at 22:51h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Momentous events usually leave strong memories on those who have lived through them, and those memories often become passed on to later generations in the form of historical interpretations of why and what had happened in the past. This has certainly been so in...

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18 Mar The Importance of Rising Prices in a Crisis

Posted at 22:48h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“We don’t have any…!” Fill in the blank. People are stocking up on things, fearing that we will be stuck in our homes, under quarantine, without essential supplies. Some hoard toilet paper. A popular internet video features someone driving up to what appears to...

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18 Mar The *Love Letter* has a P.S.

Posted at 09:43h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

As people start reacting to Covid-19, they are looking mostly to the larger businesses for assistance. Costco and Walmart are packed. Amazon and UPS are delivering our packages. For entertainment at home, Americans are relying on Netflix and the cable companies. For information on Covid-19,...

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18 Mar Dead Wrong® with Johan Norberg – Global Society According to the UN

Posted at 09:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“Systemic inequalities are deeply damaging our society,” “something in our global society is not working.” That’s what I learn from the new Human Development Report from the United Nations Development Programme. Dead Wrong®.Check out our Facebook page here: https://ift.tt/29CmLrALearn more about our company and watch...

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