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YouTube to Ban Content That Contradicts WHO on COVID-19, Despite the UN Agency’s Catastrophic Track Record of Misinformation

April 26, 2020 – Dan Sanchez …… The policy represents a betrayal of the pioneering platform’s founding principles. Continue reading →

Anthony Fauci: When Politics Trumps Science

April 24, 2020 – William L. Anderson …… Readers of a certain age may remember the hysteria that surrounded AIDS for a period of the 1980s. Anthony Fauci was a central player in that, too. Continue reading →

The Loudest Complaints About Price Gouging Come from the Worst Offenders: Politicians … Like Doug Ford

April 23, 2020 – Lee Friday …… Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s holier-than-thou diatribe reveals a political double standard. Continue reading →

Thanks to Lockdowns, State and Local Tax Revenues Are Plummeting

April 22, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… State and local government budgets are in danger of collapsing. This will impel politicians to find ways to end the lockdowns. Politicians may not care whether you have a job. But they care deeply about their government budgets and jobs for their friends. Continue reading →

Sweden’s Top Epidemiologist: COVID-19 Infections Flattening Under Policy of Individual Responsibility

April 21, 2020 – Dan Sanchez …… Sweden bucked the trend of top-down lockdowns. Continue reading →

How to Think About the Fed Now

April 20, 2020 – Jeff Deist …… The Fed is, in effect, a lawless economic government unto itself. It is the lender of first resort, a kind of reverse pawnshop that pays top dollar for rapidly declining assets. Continue reading →

Governments Make Us More Vulnerable in a Pandemic

April 19, 2020 – Lee Friday …… If you are shocked by the extent to which Canada’s various governments have shut down the economy with the onset of COVID-19, you should be more shocked by how much they shut it down BEFORE COVID-19. Continue reading →

Anthony Fauci, the “Learned Ignoramus”

April 19, 2020 – Zachary Yost …… Experts such as Anthony Fauci are experts only in the narrow field of their expertise. They have almost no knowledge or expertise in other fields, including—apparently—the basics of how human societies function. Continue reading →

Confronting the Leviathan of the COVID-19 Crisis

April 16, 2020 – Anthony Rozmajzl …… We should ever be on guard against the government’s arrogation of unwarranted powers, especially in light of what history shows the state is capable of doing in times of emergency. Continue reading →

While the West Panicked, Some Asian Regimes Took a Different Path

April 15, 2020 – Mihai Macovei …… Even Now, Japan and Hong Kong are moving only very slowly toward economic “lockdowns.” Korea and Taiwan employ different strategies altogether. Continue reading →