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In early 2020, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was unleashed on the world. What began as an outbreak in China quickly spread and was declared a pandemic in March 2020. In response, governments around the world activated their regulatory machinery, adopting a wide range of activities,...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from pages 119-120 of Thomas Sowell’s 2018 book Discrimination and Disparities (original emphasis): Given how prone all human beings are to mistakes, in all kinds of institutions, one of the most important characteristics of any decision-making process is its ability to recognize and...

The year 2020 was a dreadful year as it relates to individual liberty, free association, commercial freedom, and private property, and 2021 isn’t looking much better. The main reason, of course, is not the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), but the government response to it. Volumes could be...

The U.S. economy created almost 270,000 jobs in April – that’s 40 percent higher than the average monthly job creation prior to the appearance of the Covid-19 virus. Yet, it’s not good news. Had the virus never emerged, the economy would...