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Is Liberalism a Lost Cause?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 16, 2022 / Economics, History, Philosophy, Society / 10 minute read

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Is liberalism a lost cause? Many say so. Many today dream that it would stay gone, forever doomed to be regarded as a failed experiment in a world longing for authoritarian control whether by the right, the left, the technocratic elite, or something else. Demoralized and depressed by so much “shock and awe,” and living in times of ubiquitous surveillance and unrelenting diktat, many others are inclined to give up the dream of freedom completely.

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How Virus Spending Became the New Virus

David Stockman / April 15, 2022 / Economics / 10 minute read

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In a word, the combination of government induced “supply-side” contraction and ultra-stimulated merchandise “demand” has no parallel for folly in the annals of Washington economic policy. It was a destructive eruption in a class all by itself, and the foundation for the runaway inflation now plaguing the American public.

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Elon Musk’s Big Move on Twitter

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 14, 2022 / Economics, Media / 8 minute read

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Elon Musk’s exciting and dramatic move represents a bold attempt to overthrow the regime of control, propaganda, and enforced opinion as manufactured by the administrative state. It could be a sign of things to come. The upheaval of our times will eventually touch every institution based on the widespread perception that something has gone very wrong and cries out for a fix.

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Covidians and the Coin Shortage

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 9, 2022 / Economics, Society / 6 minute read

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Just as lockdowns showed very little concern for small businesses and the working classes, who were not in a position to move their lives to Zoom, and the vaccine mandates ignored population risk profiles and natural immunity, the push for contactless payment systems completely disregarded those who were not in a position to make the adjustment.

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How the C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns and Economic War

David Stockman / March 24, 2022 / Economics / 9 minute read

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The utter economic waste and injustice to employees, shareholders, and various other stakeholders brought on by the new corporate virtue signaling is now starkly evident in the global data that prove beyond a shadow of doubt that the whole Virus Patrol-dictated anti-Covid regime was completely wrong from the very beginning.

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The Inflation Disaster Is Collateral Damage from Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 24, 2022 / Economics, History / 10 minute read

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The pandemic response unleashed several seasons of policy recklessness, destruction, and nihilism, almost as if none of the lessons of the past applied, whether in public health or economics. If we ever emerge from this chaos, historians will surely look back in amazement that so many terrible decisions could have taken place in so many parts of the world and in such quick succession.

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Why I Decided to Leave the Brooklyn Brewery I Co-Founded

Josh Stylman / March 8, 2022 / Economics, Philosophy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Leaving the company I’ve dedicated the past decade of my life to is not an easy decision for me, but I need to be able to speak my mind freely without fearing that my place of employment – and most importantly, the team of people who work there – will be held responsible for my personal views. We’ve seen that there are bad faith actors willing to mislead and misrepresent in order to do such harm.

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The Feudal Symbolism of Restaurant Closures

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 27, 2022 / Economics, History, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Those who would shut down the restaurants are likely also intent on shutting down the revolutionary meaning of their birth and existence, throwing us back to a past in which only the elites enjoy the practice and fruits of freedom.

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And Now, It’s Economic Warfare

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 17, 2022 / Economics / 5 minute read

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Many of the world’s wisest minds have observed that the main means by which powerful states seize and retain control is through the realm of money. Guns help. Prestige helps. But in the end, it’s the control of money that keeps the people in servitude.

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Norway, Here We Come

Lucio Saverio Eastman / February 15, 2022 / Economics, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Norway is the future and the rest of the world needs to get on board and ride this enlightened, public health cluetrain into the next chapter. Invite the world back into your country. Open the borders to commerce and trade. Bring back adventure and discovery for everyone.

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There Was No Exit Plan from “Slow the Spread”

Robert Blumen / February 13, 2022 / Economics, Policy / 12 minute read

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During this time of insanity, some of us went about our lives as best we could and ignored the restrictions. The rest of the world is now coming to terms with the understanding that the “precautions” don’t do much. At best what is going to happen anyway, happens. If there is no off ramp then the change is either permanent or it will go on until failure is evident and people stop caring. Then they will go back to normal one by one.

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Which Pandemic Response Achieves the Greater Good?

Genevieve Briand / February 12, 2022 / Economics, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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How do individuals know what’s best for them? While the scientific knowledge, theoretical or technical expertise of one person, or one profession, may help shed light on what’s best for individuals, it can never be enough. Only individuals themselves have the unique knowledge that all others do not have, about their individual-specific ever-changing circumstances, constraints, needs and preferences.

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