Surviving the lockdown
A tourniquet can stop bleeding and save a life. If you don't loosen the tourniquet from time to time, you cut off the blood for too long and lose the limb. If you don't loosen the lockdown you lose America.
A tourniquet can stop bleeding and save a life. If you don't loosen the tourniquet from time to time, you cut off the blood for too long and lose the limb. If you don't loosen the lockdown you lose America.
Economic lockdowns may have helped initially to slow the coronavirus, but longer-term are ineffective and counterproductive.
The one thing Congress absolutely shouldn’t do, is shield states from the consequences of their own bad budgetary decisions over past decades.
The coronavirus has brought rampant death worldwide combined with now 26 million jobless Americans (and millions more globally). But, we’re being told by many, it’s splendid the environment is bette
“No debate on the proper balance between private property rights and conflicting societal needs is complete without noting the Takings Clause.”
When technology, smart choices, individual freedom and national self-reliance lead the day.
What businesses can safely reopen first and when?
Unless we identify those portions of the economy that can operate safely and target them to reopen, our two trillion dollars will be consumed without stimulating anything.
Tough times teach tough lessons. Tossing aside foolish policy is a lesson worth learning.
Bill Gates said the economy must remain closed. One-size-fits-all, blanket solutions are second nature to governments. Precision and innovation is not the bureaucracy's forté. Time for our best innovators to provide their expertise and lead.
The question faced by our elected officials, starting with the President and the nation’s fifty governors, is how much longer can they shut down the economy to fight this insidious virus, and is it prudent to continue?
There are three key letters everyone needs to focus on. V, U, and L. These are the shapes economic recoveries take. If we don't enable economic recovery to get moving, the resulting harm will exceed the harm from the virus.
Americans’ standard of living overall is the best it has ever been; our parents and grandparents could never dream of today’s conveniences, technological advances, and prosperity.
California is about to take one giant step toward following Germany’s failed climate goals which should be a wake-up all for governments everywhere.
How much harm is in store if anti-energy zealots succeed?