It doesn’t bode well for the next few months, especially now, amid the most destabilized geopolitical scene in our lifetime. In a messy, scary time with so much uncertainty, let’s remind people that business works. His list goes on and on, and behind each of these gains, you can see the very-visible hand of business and muscular free markets. Rather than retreating and apologizing, business should own this challenge, becoming a refuge from uncertainty rather than a rallying point for it. You’re all old enough to remember when “free markets, free peoples” wasn’t a punch line in an Ivy-league vaudeville show.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2024 20:24 UTC