[Original concept by Gary Larson; text from Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl, COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative White Paper 6: “Why We Must Test…
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Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan warned that shutting down the Smithfield Sioux Falls plant to stanch the worst coronavirus outbreak in America would bring “severe,…
Lest you think Donald Trump will get us out of the coronavirus recession, please think again: his inherent and obvious characteristics—inability to plan, communicate, or…
Last November and December, Donald Trump claimed that his daughter Ivanka had created fourteen million jobs while working for Daddy in the White House: “14…
The sign on the dairy cooler at Targets limits customers to two jugs of milk each, due to increased demand, yet dairy farmers are dumping…
Aberdeen’s Internet providers pop into my morning paper to assure us they can handle all of our coronavirus teleconferencing and studying and plague-bunker Netflixing. Vast…
The coronavirus pandemic requires a temporary replacement of capitalism with socialism, because the free market can’t work when we can’t go to the market. If…
Governor Kristi Noem says we “should” think innovatively and entrepreneurially; I’m happy to oblige. The Republican-controlled Senate is having trouble getting its poop in a…
Oil supply is booming while demand is crashing. Oil Price Information Service chief Tom Kloza predicts that by early May, gasoline will cost perhaps half…