A view of life and commercial real estate from Newark and Licking County, Ohio
If anything, the Democrats synchronized swimming of the past month could only occur in a party largely uniform in its core constituencies and essential beliefs. They shift positions and allegiances through technology and media control, using influencers to hide troublesome past positions with a dexterity that a Communist vozdh like Joseph Stalin would have appreciated.
-Joel Kotkin, from "What Happened to My Party?"
Consult history. You’ll find, without exception, that when government uses price controls to push prices downward the results include shortages, queues, waste, deterioration of product quality, and corruption. You’ll also often find literal violence erupting as desperate buyers struggle against each other to grab the relatively few units of the price-controlled goods that are available.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things.
-Paul Graham, as quoted here
. . . if a new type of technological product is being pushed by government in order to meet national policy targets, that means that it has not been through the filter of large numbers of people freely deciding to buy it and telling their family and friends that it benefited them as individuals.
Post-legalization [of marijuana], incomes in legalizing states grew by about 3%, home prices went up by 6%, and populations rose by about 2%.
-as culled from this Marginal Revolution post
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