Some county governments in Colorado have made it clear that they don't intend to adhere to the governor's ongoing edicts requiring business closures and mandating social distancing. And it's unclear that the governor is willing to burn the political capital to force county governments to do so.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The prolockdown crowd has been making extraordinary claims. Meanwhile, they have produced little evidence to support their claims.
We received a new donation from Mr. Carl Watner entitled The Voluntaryist Collection.
Oliver E. Williamson, 2009 Nobel Laureate and founder of "transaction cost economics," has died at age 87. Here is a short piece I wrote on Williamson and Austrian economics.
The present COVID-19 pandemic has left public schools scrambling to find ways to dampen the impact on students.
The first round of lockdowns was a sucker punch to unsuspecting Americans. Will it work a second time?
Powell admits: "We print [money] digitally. So as a central bank, we have the ability to create money digitally. And we do that by buying Treasury bills or bonds for other government-guaranteed securities. And that actually increases the money supply."
Murray Rothbard once stunned me by saying that he thought the greatest economist in history was Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk: “Böhm-Bawerk created a mighty system of economic theory and then successfully defended it against all comers.”
