FRESH BIPARTISAN SUSPICIONS AND DOUBTS OF THE WUHAN LAB: 3/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword)
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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FRESH BIPARTISAN SUSPICIONS AND DOUBTS OF THE WUHAN LAB: 3/4: When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason by John Tamny (Author), George Gilder (Foreword)
https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/republicans-and-democrats-investigating-the-origins-of-covid-19-find-a-common-target-peter-daszak/
https://www.amazon.com/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion/dp/1642938378/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
When Politicians Panicked tells the tragic story of how, in response to a spreading virus, global politicians mindlessly pursued economic desperation, starvation, and death as the cure.
The global economy was booming as 2020 dawned, but within a few short months wreckage, death, and desperation borne of economic contraction were the new normal. What happened?
In When Politicians Panicked, economic commentator John Tamny tells the heart-wrenching story of a time when politicians were tragically relieved of basic common sense in their response to the new coronavirus.
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| 0:46.2 | with the author John Tamney, his new book when politicians panicked, the new coronavirus, |
| 0:52.0 | expert opinion, and a tragic lapse of reason. |
| 0:55.4 | It is now late March, early April, and Washington is engaged. |
| 1:00.5 | The 20th century called its command Economy. I don't believe that word was used in April in any negative fashion, |
| 1:09.0 | but it was the same. The economy of the United States was about to be nationalized, admittedly half-heartedly, but |
| 1:17.3 | the effect is still with us. |
| 1:19.2 | John, no such thing as government investment, and yet that's how it was presented. No such thing as government investment and yet that's how it was presented. |
| 1:24.0 | No such thing as government picking winners and that's how it was protected. |
| 1:28.0 | In addition, John, there's no such thing as a government choosing who's going to lose if we don't intervene. |
| 1:33.8 | That's what happened. |
| 1:34.8 | You have a wonderful quote from Adam Smith, 1776 Adam Smith, that careful Scotsman, |
| 1:41.7 | that capital increases with parsimony, capital decreases with |
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