Atlas is shrugging

Published March 27, 2020 3:00am ET



“Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution. The only way the government can be of assistance to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” — Ayn Rand

Congress has just approved an economically bloated $2.2 trillion spending relief bill, an amount more substantial than the GDP of all but a handful of countries. It is only the third massive relief bill, and we’ve been told several trillion dollars more would have to get spent. Then there are the trillions of dollars more of Federal Reserve Board liquidity injections. We are starting to talk about real money here.

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