I still believe in markets. Markets do not fail us. We fail markets.
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@AmityShlaes
Classical Liberal. Chair, Coolidge Foundation, Author: Coolidge, Forgotten Man, Great Society, Forgotten Man/Graphic, Germany, Greedy Hand.
- Many Americans don't want to take off their masks. That's the shocker. Wasn't shocked by the existence of a new virus. Continue to be shocked by the response.
- Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.--Calvin Coolidge
- One of the tragedies of Covid is that it has advantaged big business over small (Wal-Mart over florist); the New Deal did something similar by assigning the bigger companies in each industry to write their industry's rule book for the economic emergency period. Guess who lost.
- You always lived in a police state, you just didn't know it.
- How people respond to Rich Lowry's slip of the tongue is a litmus test of their character. Not Lowry's.
- Interesting....Kasparov clarity on Sanders
- You always lived in a police state, you just didn't know it--II. The worst thing about COVID lockdown is it foreshadows the arrogance with which authorities will move when a more serious new disease emerges.
- For the record: it is absolutely possible to be a moral capitalist.
- Bitcoin is a measure of the failure of all our other currencies, and the govts behind them.
- I do not believe in modern monetary theory.
- "The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is the constructive method of filling it with good."--Coolidge
- One of the great tragedies of the 1960s riots was the subsequent withdrawal of retail shops, already somewhat scarce, from inner cities. Their departure left the inhabitants with nowhere to shop. For poorer citizens, riots worsened what urban renewal had begun.
