Crisis quote of the day
Jacob Sullum has the quote of the day on Reason:
That seems to be the theory underlying the “stimulus” package: We can’t depend on consumers to spend money they don’t have on stuff they don’t need, so the government has to do it for them.
Congress: if you aren’t willing to go broke, we’ll go broke for you.
- Americans Are Saving More… As if Things Weren’t Bad Enough
- “The recession has turned standard economic wisdom on its head, so that formerly good things, such as frugality, are bemoaned, while formerly bad things, such as unconstrained borrowing and spending, are recalled with nostalgia.”
More crisifying
- COVID Lessons: Journalistic Delusions and the Madness of Politicians
- COVID-19 was real. The crisis surrounding it was entirely manufactured. Everything we did took a manageable disease and turned it into a killer. And the very worst was believing a media we knew was lying.
- COVID Lessons: Don’t trust socialists
- Our response made the virus worse. We trusted self-styled experts, failed models, socialists, and the media over what we could see with our own eyes.
- Deadly Perfection
- Whenever the left wants to devalue someone’s life, they call it economics.
- Can the president take responsibility for market rises?
- If the president gets blamed when the market falls, can he take credit when it rises?
- What does 1.2 trillion dollars buy?
- What can you get for 1.2 trillion nowadays? How about two and a half years of no employer-side payroll taxes?
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