Diversification versus Risk
It is widely held that financial asset prices fully reflect all available and relevant information, and that adjustments to new information is virtually instantaneous. This way of thinking which is …
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Daniel Jafari : Life at the Center of the COVID Storm
Anish discusses the COVID19 pandemic with Dr. Daniel Jafari, an emergency physician and surgical critical care specialist working at the North Shore University Hospital in New York. Dr. Jafari speaks …
More than Half of All US COVID-19 Deaths Occur in Only Four States
As of March 24, nearly 30 percent of all the COVID-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in New York state. Of the 910 deaths reported so far in …
Fear Makes It Easy for Governments to Expand Power
The coronavirus epidemic has for the past couple of weeks compelled panicked households to flood grocery stores in search of basic goods. Until this past weekend, however, US governments had refrained from …
The “Experts” Have No Crystal Ball
On the night of Tuesday, November 8, 2016, and in the wee hours of Wednesday, November 9, 2016, Donald Trump became US president-elect. I am not aware of a single …
The End of Civilization?
Governments all over the world are using the alleged threat of a COVID-19 pandemic to shut down the world’s economy. Daniel Lacalle, an authority on energy economics, writes: “The decision …
Central Bankers Are Running Out of Options
Corona fears have shifted the world’s central banks into hyperdrive. Talk more, do more, lend more—and buy everything that moves. One after the other, the major central banks took to the …
In Spain You Can’t Use Your Own Back Yard. Police Make Sure of It.
The last days and weeks of the coronavirus epidemic give an interesting insight into the human psyche. Elementary liberties are restricted all over the world, such as the freedom of …
Keynes: The Young Imperialist, 1906–13
John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the twentieth century. Those interested in modern economics must ask: how did he become so influential? It is well known that …
The Chinese Regime Has Made China’s Woes Much Worse
Horrific videos out of China, uploaded at great personal risk, expose the communist lies and mishandling of the COVID-19 outbreak. The mishandling of public health by the centralized Chinese regime …