Back in July a friend and I debated the “cure worse than the disease” question: does restricting economic activity to control the coronavirus pandemic produce…
Tag: economy
Sure, choose not to lock down in response to coroanvirus, and you’ll have lower unemployment. You’ll also have more sickness and death: Five of the…
Our wise vote to raise and index the minimum wage in 2014 will give our lowest-earning workers a little more coronavirus stimulus in 2021. According…
Wired posts a really interesting report on the University of Washington’s Global Burdens of Disease project, which looks at who gets sick from what worldwide…
Donald Trump’s example notwithstanding, acting in your self-interest isn’t always bad. For instance, if you’re still trying to figure out for whom to cast your…
Whatever the experts say, do the opposite—such appears to be Donald Trump’s plan for the remainder of his time in the White House. Yesterday morning,…
More on the K-shaped recovery: jobs that pay better wages are more likely to facilitate telework than the jobs on the frontline of the pandemic…
Donald Trump is, in the most generous interpretation, exaggerating when he claims to have delivered “the greatest economy in the history of our country“: Trump…
Governor Kristi Noem is finally promising to shake loose a much larger chunk of the coronavirus relief funds that she has mostly sat on all…
Governor Kristi Noem needs $5 million from the CARES Act to splash her face across national TV for “tourism promotion.” But the Snow Queen deigns…