In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that, serious as Wuhan virus is, it’s teaching us a lot about preparing for something even worse.
“Not then having learned the philosophy of yielding to disproportionate obstacles...”
Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fate of Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg in the Democratic primaries proves yet again that the widespread fear of money in politics is just paranoia.
“let us keep in mind about these people that, whatever their language, culture, or religion, whatever peculiar thing they are wearing through their nose, whatever caliber item they have pointed at our head, they are people, too. They are just as dumb, stinky and ridiculous as we are.”
P.J. O’Rourke All the Trouble in the World
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Canadian government’s reflexive habit of concealing any information they might or might not possess is especially unhelpful on COVID-19.
“economists are not trying to explain human behavior but to predict what changes will occur, at the margin, in human behavior if the costs and benefits of alternative courses of action change.”
James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein Crime and Human Nature