Inaugurating an occasional feature in which people who can’t look anywhere but through their personal prisms are highlighted. Think of them as highly self-centered, perhaps, unable to view situations from other viewpoints.<\/p>\n
First up is George Gilder<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n So let\u2019s stop pretending that our policies have been rational and need to be phased out, as if they once had a purpose. They should be reversed summarily and acknowledged to be a mistake, perpetrated by statisticians with erroneous computer models.<\/p>\n Perhaps then we can learn from this experience with the flaws of expertise not to shut down the economy again for the totally bogus \u201ccrisis\u201d of climate change.\u00a0[RealClearMarkets<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, there’s several thousand more people dead, world-wide, of this virus just today. Gilder is an economist who co-founded the Discovery Institute, an institution chiefly notable for advancing the ludicrous concept of Intelligent Design<\/a>. He is also chairman of George Gilder Fund Management, LLC; presumably, unless he’s running a fund specializing in shorts, he’d prefer to see the economy up and running per normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inaugurating an occasional feature in which people who can’t look anywhere but through their personal prisms are highlighted. Think of them as highly self-centered, perhaps, unable to view situations from other viewpoints. First up is George Gilder: So let\u2019s stop pretending that our policies have been rational and need to \u2026 Continue reading