Many of the issues bank regulators now face were predicted in this book! Great chapter on deposit insurance. 😉

Politics aside, did indoor vaccine mandates work? My new op-ed for The Hill builds on my recent research and evaluates the evidence on the effects of these mandates. Please check it out: thehill.com/opinion/health…

Two lockdown facts: 1. Lockdowns happened because the laptop class thought it could isolate itself from society without facing economic harm. 2. Lockdowns failed because societies are deeply unequal and needed the essential working class to keep society going.

Lockdown colonialism: "Countries like India were [under] enormous pressure... World Health Organization (WHO)'s Feb. 25, 2020 report suggested that all nations should follow the Wuhan lockdown model... regardless of socio-economic conditions." -- Toby Green in COMPACT compactmag.com/article/lockdo…

I love bitcoiners

Nasdaq plans to launch #Bitcoin custody in June - Bloomberg 👏

Nasdaq expects to launch crypto safekeeping services this year, joining a growing pool of traditional finance firms moving into the sector after a spate of bankruptcies trib.al/7umNSSn

When they try to excuse LockDown & their awful behavior w/ "BUT THE SCIENCE HAS CHANGED!" please remember Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt called out the entire scientific community in Spring 2020 for being a bunch of scared, captured bullies who refused to have a discussion:

"the county asked residents to report on people and entities not in compliance with the health orders through a special hotline and website. To encourage citizens to rat out offenders [the system granted] confidentiality to those who filed complaints."

Deposit insurance is like quicksand: once governments step into it, they just end up getting in deeper, and deeper. The failures Dan mentions in his first tweet have themselves been blamed on Canada's decision to start ensuring bank deposits in 1967. 1/2

I'm super excited to announce that Saifedean Ammous will be visiting El Salvador! In May, the renowned author of The Bitcoin Standard will join us to lecture the students in our inaugural bitcoin devs education project: CUBO+ El Salvador is winning 🇸🇻🏆 This is yet more proof 👇

$4.5 trillion Fidelity launched #Bitcoin trading for all clients and the Nasdaq just said it's about to offer #BTC custody, all amid the bear market. Probably nothing.

Public health's self-image: a discipline devoted to the well-being of the marginalized and poor. Public health reality, exposed by its pandemic actions: a discipline devoted to trickle-down epidemiology and focused protection of the laptop class.

It's always the Dutch, seriously Insta-order. "This sort of economy, they show, was neither invented in 1776 nor inseparable from a strong state. It evolved, from the ground up, over centuries, and Dutch merchants were some of its most important pioneers." Edward Stringham reason

Don't credit a strong centralized state for inventing capitalism. Credit the Dutch merchants, laborers, sailors, whalers, and brewers, all led by an invisible hand. reason.com/2023/06/17/how… via reason

ib Looks like a job for Edward Stringham amazon.com/Private-Govern…

To that list, universities should be added. Some are a vital cog in the censorship machine.

How does state power affect peace and markets? On the latest episode of the #HayekProgramPodcast, Christopher Coyne, Edward Stringham, and Donald J. Boudreaux explore Robert Higgs’s insights on state power, peaceful cooperation, and regime uncertainty. loom.ly/0zofzi4

I'm old enough to remember when Google literally dropped their pledge to not be evil.