December 8, 2024

THOUGHT OF THE DAY:

“The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly— whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him.”

— Milton Friedman

BIRTHDAYS:

65 BC Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

1724 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, French organist, harpsichordist, and composer. La De Caze. Ouverture; La Castelmore. Air Champêtre

1765 Eli Whitney, American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin in 1793, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.

1926 Joachim Fest, German historian, journalist, critic and editor who was best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including a biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and German resistance to Nazism.

1947 Jimmy Lai, Entrepreneur and Pro-Democracy Activist.

1815 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist

1861 Aristide Maillol, French painter and sculptor

1865 Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods. Finlandia (Prom 75)

MISCELLANEOUS:

HE MAKES SENSE. How Javier Milei Explains His Economic Philosophy

THIS LOOKS PROMISING. Broadly effective vaccine design offers new hope in the fight against hepatitis C

SUGGESTED READING FOR YOUR OLDER CHILDREN AND GRAND CHILDREN WHEN THE NEXT LOCKDOWN IS DECLARED:

PUBLISHED IN 2006: Disease Mitigation Measures in the Control of Pandemic Influenza

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE:

Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth