Hard-left "democratic socialists" think they figured out how to make government planning possible: use prices. But there's a problem in their argument: prices are impossible without markets.
Pundits are hoping that instead of a crisis, we just get a "global economic slowdown." Given the damage done by central banks, a sustained slowdown would be a best-case scenario.
Government stimulus plans blow up new bubbles to replace the old ones that had previously been created by government also. Let's end the cycle of wealth destruction.
Expansionary monetary policy causes economic recessions. It doesn't cure them.
Zuckerberg's pro-regulation position is just a pro-Zuckerberg position. Further politicizing and regulating the internet helps large firms crush the competition, and ensure the public has fewer choices.
Pumping yet more credit into the Eurozone is as effective as giving adrenalin to a dead horse.
The radical nature of anti-climate-change measures require promises of a near-total apocalypse in the near future. But the date for the promised disaster keeps getting pushed back.
The risk of abusing human rights through AI technologies becomes greater the more AI research is funded or directed by government agencies.
Before wealth can be redistributed by the state, it must first be produced. But welfare-state policies end up destroying the very wealth which is necessary for redistribution.
"Free private cities" are similar to microstates but are based on the idea of explicit contractual agreements between residents and the city government. How would these entities function?
