Vincent Geloso
Price Controls Don’t Fight Inflation: 40 Centuries of Evidence
“Price controls do not stop inflation; they only make things worse. If prices are going up, it’s either because monetary policy is too loose or because the economy suffered a decline in productivity.”
There Are No Democratic Socialists And No Liberal Dictators
“The dictator who finishes off democracy is not an enlightened individual. A dictator can then indeed liberalize, but this will not be from a true commitment to political or economic liberty.” ~Vincent Geloso
Don’t Blame Video Games for France’s Riots
“Let us review this evidence to better understand why, again, we can dismiss the type of deflection that President Macron is attempting to do.”
Appropriately Measuring Inflation and Deflation Teaches Humility!
“Had we used the true price index, we would have found a larger contraction due to lockdowns. That means that we understated the cost of lockdowns.” ~ Vincent Geloso
Global Well-being Inequality Is Falling!
“The Human Progress Index (HPI), amalgamates eight important indicators of well-being from 1990 to 2018: infant mortality, life expectancy, nutrition, deaths from outdoor air pollution, schooling, political liberty, internet access and GDP per capita.” ~ Vincent Geloso
The Collapse of the USSR Was One the Best Things that Happened to the Environment
“These proportions suggest that the collapse of the USSR was an incredibly cheap climate-change mitigation ‘policy.’ Indeed, the mitigation was itself a benefit to economic growth rather than a cost.” ~ Vincent Geloso
Are Historians Politically Biased?
“If there are strong signs of association between a President’s deficit spending and his rank, then we can speak more robustly as to whether historians are letting their political priors bleed into their research.” ~ Vincent Geloso
Don’t Listen to De-growthers — Economic Growth Is Healthy!
“The wealthier we are, the easier it is to tackle the ‘hard’ health issues. ” ~ Vincent Geloso
Media Independence Does Not Really Mean Media Independence
“No politician needs to bribe a journalist. All that is needed is a politician’s power to sculpt the shape of the news market in ways that are to his advantage.” ~ Vincent Geloso
What accounts for America’s life expectancy gap?
“A large portion of the gap (but not all of it) is due to unique features of American life that are unrelated to health care services.” ~ Vincent Geloso
