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September 3, 2020

Government’s Myopic Price Setting Never, Ever Works

Government is awful at…everything.

Government price setting/regulating/capping…is awful squared.

Why is price setting awful?

Because it is impossible to do it even remotely accurately.

There are a multitude of market factors that coalesce into the price of a widget at any given moment.

These multitudinous market factors – are constantly changing. So the price of the widget is constantly changing – from moment to moment, over and over and over again.

So the price government artificially sets yesterday – may be way too low today. AND way too high tomorrow. There are simply too many variables at play.

Markets set prices WAY better.

And prices need to reflect future expenses – not just past expenses.

To wit: Gasoline. The price at the pump doesn’t reflect how much the last oil barrel was – it reflects how much the next oil barrel will be.

The price of a widget – has to reflect how much it will cost to make the next widget. //

Thomas Sowell wisely noted:

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

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PragerU Shares Hilarious 2013 Key & Peele Video: ‘How Leftists Think Police Should Do Their Job’

"Americans found this laughably absurd in 2013. Sadly, only some do now." //

it pretty much illustrates how the Looney Tunes Left thinks police officers should interact with suspects who ignore their commands.

The Comedy Central video, recently re-shared by PragerU, features Key as a police officer and Peele as a suspect, re-enacting an arrest in which it’s clear that the suspect has no intention of following any of the officer’s orders, as described by The Blaze.

Kamala Harris Repeats the Lie That the Right Is Responsible for Political Violence While the Record Shows Otherwise

She's not stupid, she's evil

YouTube Music will transfer your Google Play songs with one click | Engadget

It’s been almost two years since YouTube Music launched as a full-fledged, paid competitor to Spotify and Apple Music. But even though Google positioned it as a replacement for its own Google Play Music service and something that could take on other major options in the music streaming space, it certainly wasn’t feature-complete at launch. But development accelerated significantly over the last year or so, and YouTube Music has fixed just about all the problems I identified in 2018.

But one thing that hasn’t been clear is how the faithful Google Play Music users out there could bring their collections and history over to YouTube Music. Finally, there’s an answer in the form of a comprehensive transition tool that is rolling out widely starting today. And the good news is that it brings over just about every bit of music and data you may have collected in Google Play Music over the years.