Four States Announce “Re-Open” Plans
The governors of Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina are rolling out plans to “re-open” their states from the quarantines and stay-in-place restrictions stemming from the Coronavirus pandemic.
Category: Economics
Record Store Day 2020, Sort of
Even though Record Store Day has been delayed this year, I am hoping that will be even the slightest distraction from the anxiety of these weird times.
Stimulus Legislation “Loophole” Allows Garnishment of Relief Checks
This is one of them things that can make a bad situation involving people already under pressure exponentially worse
Hey WaPo, There is Nothing Wrong With Making Toilets
Bill Withers did not escape a terrible fate where he was brought forth from the bowels of the world where the troglodytes and Morlocks dwell and brought into the sunshine
Here Comes the Pain, Shared and Otherwise
The real story of this present crisis is not the numerical one, but the human one.
The Free Market Case for Staying the Eff Home
If you want to talk the talk of conservatism when times are good, surely you gotta walk the walk when they aren’t, doncha?
Senate Leaders, President Trump Reach Deal for $2 Trillion Stimulus Package
The US Senate finally gaveled out of session in the early morning hours of Wednesday, announcing what Senator Minority Leader Chuck Shumer called “largest rescue package in American history” was finally ready.
No, We Are Not Running Out of Food and Toilet Paper
There’s no indication that we will be running out of these products any time soon. So why are so many shelves empty?
An Open Letter to Small Businesses: Stay Alive
The best thing small business owners can do for their employees is whatever it takes to survive long enough to employ them when this crisis is over
#ChecksChecksChecks is a Conservative – and Good – Idea
In the midst of plagues and pestilence, humans look to the skies. In the case of the coronavirus pandemic, Mitt Romney in a helicopter appears.
Federal Reserve Cuts Rates To Functional Zero
The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to almost zero among other measures aimed at the economy during the coronavirus crisis
Serving Up a Recession
The COVID-19 epidemic will be the first services recession, and it could be a bad one.
Post Mortem On The Ontario Basic Income Experiment
Another UBI experiment bites the dust, and a new study is looking at the participants since it ended.
A Perfect Pandemic Storm: The COVID-19 Energy/Oil Crisis Explained
The COVID-19 Energy Crisis culminated Sunday evening, when the largest one-day slide since the 1991 Gulf War occurred, stoking fears of recessions or worse.
Weekend Plans Post: Taxes
There are a handful of philosophies when it comes to tax time but the three main ones are something like this…
Getting to Ten Times Better
Vikram briefly examines three domains governed by power-law distributions: basketball, programming, and money
The Case for Monopoly
Board Game Symposium: If anything, Monopoly teaches that, despite your best planning, wise investment, and sound judgment, sometimes the universe has other plans (or no plan at all).
Good Intentions, Lessons Learned
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. After serving my community for over a decade in politics I learned exactly what that meant
