Freedom During COVID? There have been no Caesars in America since Sid, and he was a comedian. But in Nevada, Caesar turns out to be an imperial Democrat named Steve Sisolak. Like all imperial governors, sleek Caesarian Steve is reveling in the mandates, restrictions, and pettifoggery of covidious government. In a state with three million people, the invertebrate pol professes to be panicked by some 4,000 new cases found in a week through a massive upsurge in testing bringing the total to 383,000 tests. He is mandating masks everywhere and shedding crocodile tears over a total of some 400 deaths nearly all of fogies like me, a 0.01 percent rate. FreedomFest in the face of COVID-19? No way. So rather than going to Nevada in July, I'm making my way to Seattle. There we are going to break open another effervescent session of the Gilder Fellows Seminar on Economics and Entrepreneurship, in an in-person and online medley. It's the information theory of economics: wealth as knowledge, growth as learning, and money as time. We'll have the pioneering Gale Pooley of time-price fame, best-selling author Jay Richards who is writing a book on COVID mania, blockbuster filmmaker Chris Rufo on homelessness and capitalism, and me to illuminate "Life After Capitalism" in the age of information. Information is defined as surprise, and creativity is information. If it was not surprising we would not need it and socialism would work. We could have had the sessions in CHOP! But as the Vegas folks are about to learn, as they face another Oceans 11 heist from Governor Sisolak and his $1.2 billion budget deficit, socialism is a drag. (You can find all the GilderFest details here. Please note: This is not a Three Founder's Publishing sponsored event.) Best of all, this summer we'll be open to all ages! The program — formerly reserved for students and young professionals — is going virtual and interactive. We'll answer your questions and prophesize the world after COVID-19. We are all learning once again that the hunger for power among pols is insatiable. We can only hope that the hunger for freedom among Americans proves ultimately irrepressible. Regards, George Gilder Editor, Gilder's Daily Prophecy P.S. Did the "corona crash" just make this 2020 play an even bigger opportunity? I am talking about my colleague Graham Summers' strategy. He is the world's #1 scholar when it comes to the Fed intervening with the markets, and he has just discovered something crazy. With the markets in chaos right now, his strategy has the potential to be making some people wealthier than ever before! He has a brief video I'd like you to see that shows more on his simple strategy and how you can get started today! Click here to watch. |
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