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18 Mar No, David Brooks, Pandemics Don’t Kill Compassion

Posted at 07:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

My column this week is a response to David Brooks, who had claimed that pandemics kill compassion and that they "inflame class divisions." Please read the entire column (mine, not Brooks, though if you want to read Brooks don't let me stop you) at...

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18 Mar Unemployment insurance pandemic conundrum

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

Should the government make unemployment insurance more generous and easier to get in the pandemic recession? Well, yes, but it's not ideal, and a good point on which to ponder the difference between a pandemic recession and a conventional recession.To get unemployment insurance, you have...

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18 Mar Washington’s Response to the Virus

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In our society, not everything has to be coordinated from above. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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17 Mar The Myth That the President and the Fed Direct the Stock Market

Posted at 14:20h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you own stocks, you’re probably searching for explanations about the sudden bear market. The answers you find likely start with an event: what the Fed does, what President Trump does, or what the coronavirus does. For example, last week, news stories conflated a speech by...

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16 Mar Two Take-Aways from the COVID-19 Crisis

Posted at 09:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetI have nothing much of any value to add to what well-informed people – people much more informed about this matter than I am – have already said about the coronavirus. Still, in my most-recent column for AIER I do offer two  reflections...

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16 Mar The Top Economic Takeaway of the Coronavirus Panic

Posted at 09:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Intellectuals who write regularly for non-specialized publications are expected to dispense clever opinions about almost everything, and certainly about topics that are in the day’s headlines. Unfortunately for me, I know next to nothing about pandemics in general, or about the coronavirus specifically. And so...

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16 Mar To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan

Posted at 09:35h 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 the...

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14 Mar The Insoluble Perils of Prediction

Posted at 19:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Predictions have always been fraught with perils. Gauging the future is tricky business, a business filled with well-meaning and serious commentators drowned out by pranksters and ideologically committed imbeciles. Despite being wholly unequipped for the task of divining the future, most political pundits and financial...

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14 Mar Larry P. Arnn addresses COVID-19

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Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn addresses students and parents regarding the COVID-19 outbreak.Support Hillsdale College: https://ift.tt/3d2CywHVisit our website: http://hillsdale.eduLearn from our online courses: https://ift.tt/1AOIySpRead Imprimis: https://ift.tt/1IhhV7PUndergraduate programs: https://ift.tt/2QhgeFZGraduate School of Statesmanship: https://ift.tt/3aX6KHIGraduate School of Government: https://ift.tt/3b0qY3zListen to Hillsdale Dialogues Podcast: https://ift.tt/1NGHliMHillsdale College is an independent...

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14 Mar Some Links

Posted at 19:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetGeorge Mason University alums Phil Magness and Steve Miller, writing in the Wall Street Journal, find further credible evidence against Emmanuel Saez’s and Gabriel Zucman’s incredible claim that high-income Americans pay income taxes at lower rates than do lower-income Americans. Here’s Phil’s and...

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