The gap between the US and Spain became larger as time went on. At day 15, Spain's death rate was 4.6 times larger than that in the US. At day 20, Spain's rate had grown to 5.6 times larger than the US rate.
In America today, we have a government of fear. Machiavelli offered that men obey better when they fear you than when they love you. Sadly, he was right, and the government of America knows this.
There are two very distinct approaches to crisis resolution.
These top-down COVID-19 measures imposed on entire populations by national governments will come with a cost.
In lieu of the soap, I encountered a large sign that read, in part: “Please BE KIND to one another and limit yourself only to what you really need at this time.”
Supply of goods and services is quickly becoming a more important national issue than the COVID-19 panic. The virus will not adversely impact most Americans, but they will sustain substantial financial losses, and at some point supplies will run out.
You knew it was bound to happen. Mainstream media organizations are using the novel coronavirus epidemic to open a new front on the War on Ca
What Washington's "leaders" want is a rubber stamp Congress. Why bother voting on the biggest spending bill in human history?
Professor Peter Klein and Joseph Salerno provide an Austrian take on the economics of the shutdown in a discussion with Tom Woods.
Our rulers want us to ignore the tried and true adage that cash is king in a crisis.
