John Tamny: More Freedom is SAFER than what we are doing now

John Tamny is the Vice President and Director of the Center for Economic Freedom at FreedomWorks, the editor of Real Clear Markets and Senior Economic Adviser to Applied Finance Group. As an author, his latest publication is ‘When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason’.

In this interview we focused on John’s primary argument – that we are witnessing massive swings toward centralised economic planning. This leads to his diagnosis that more freedom is actually safer at the population level, and we are abandoning that safety for psuedo-safety which is actually more dangerous.

Watch this episode at: https://youtu.be/QvxhuBoV9AQ

JOHN TAMNY

https://www.johntamny.com

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/authors/john_tamny

John’s Book ‘When Politicians Panicked’:

https://www.amazon.com.au/When-Politicians-Panicked-Coronavirus-Opinion-ebook/dp/B08TB5MSFN

Article on Inflation vs Central Planning

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2021/10/24/theres-no-supply-chain-shortage-or-inflation-theres-just-central-planning

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1:46 This is not inflation, it’s a supply problem due to central planning

4:39 Prices on everyday goods are surging (inflating?) in the USA

5:40 Ending supply chain shortages

6:43 Centralised economic planning is taking over

9:06 Arguments of inflation occurring under Joe Biden

12:40 Joe Biden’s excuse for rising prices

15:43 Why are property prices still exploding?

20:00 Creative ventures drive progress, not the purchase of houses

21:43 Repeating the 2008 global financial crisis

24:47 Politicians will not allow markets to correct

28:44 When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason

30:12 ‘Lives are more important than money’

32:39 Negligence or willful destruction?

34:48 Governments scaring their people

37:34 When the world ‘lost its collective mind’

40:04 Free markets have a greater collective wisdom than governments ever could

42:37 People are safer when they act freely

47:13 Freedom is most important in the face of the greatest threat

48:50 Leaving people alone is a virtue and it works better

50:31 Countries responding well to Covid-19

52:29 The importance of the USA as an example to the world

54:17 Magic wand to fix the whole world