All the pain we have endured for such little gain. The China virus is still abroad and will be waiting on the porch when the states re-open their doors. Meanwhile, the old and infirm are dying in relatively large numbers. Locking down the 'experts' and focusing on those at most risk would likely have saved many lives -- and saved the economy too

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Keynesians and devotees of Modern Monetary Theory are inspired by the entirely false premise that spending drives production when the truth is that it is the other way around. Thanks to COVID-19, however, it just so happens we are right now enduring a unique moment in which back-to-front theories are applicable

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Textbook theory never envisaged governments taking the extraordinary step of closing down their economies. We are in uncharted waters, which makes it difficult to predict the outcome. With that proviso, I pose the two key questions of the moment: Will inflation take off? Will government debt burden the future?

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Far be it from me to say a positive word about Victoria's Daniel Andrews, but exactly how is he so different from any other political leader? Most are incompetent and all defer to blinkered public health officials because that is easier and safer than taking responsibility for their own decisions. And all keep lockdowns at the ready to appease the wrathful god of COVID-19

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Lockdowns of any part of the economy offer no enduring value. COVID-19 can't be made to go away by hiding from it and will come roaring back, as it is doing in Victoria, whenever restrictions are eased. Rather than optimistic notions of an imminent vaccine, a strong dose of realism is the only efficacious prescription

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Demolishing the past and its symbols offers redemption to those afflicted with a fashionable guilt for their forebears' achievements. Let the current madness serve as a reminder that de-platforming God from His plinth leaves you with nothing but loose screws

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Former slave Wallace Willis wrote a song of hope, endurance and salvation, a spiritual that for 150 years has been endlessly re-interpreted. Now the arbiters of what others are allowed to say and sing have decreed no white voice should be allowed to let those words pass their racist lips. The correct response: sing it louder, ever louder

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Here's a quick question: name an institution not now in the hands of the Left? Certainly not universities, the media or public service. And don't dare cite the police as upholders of one-rule-for-all law and order, not when they're fining petty violators of social-distance diktats while standing idle as protesters in their tens of thousands ignore the same rules

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Trump knows capitalism and nothing else is the key to prosperity. He knows a nation cannot stand without strong borders. He knows America cannot retain its place in the world without a peerless military. Unable to argue the point, the Left and its media auxiliary peddle the whole cloth of their daily fabrications, from Russiagate to blatant misquotation

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As successful as it has been, capitalism doesn’t come with a guarantee of permanency. It has been overthrown in parts of the world in the past. Socialists cum Marxists are forever lurking, feeding off the wishful thinking, naivety and short-term memories of the young, who grasp not at all the consequences certain to arise from their aggrieved innocence

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