Here Comes the Pain, Shared and Otherwise
The real story of this present crisis is not the numerical one, but the human one.
Tagged: economics
Carnage: 6.6 Million in Initial Jobless Claims, 10 Million Two Week Total
The data starting to come in on the economic toll of the COVID-19 virus and subsequent social shut-down was expected to be bad, and indeed is off the charts.
It’s Not Time…Yet
The options before us are not “burn the economy down through quarantine” and “burn the economy down through an epidemic”.
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.
Kevin Williamson’s Smallest World
A radical libertarian manifesto that deserves to be taken seriously – and rejected. A Review of Kevin Williamson’s “The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics”
Stephen Moore Must Not be Confirmed
Stephen Moore is a political operative who happened to get some sort of economics degree from somewhere.
Ordinary World for 7 January, 2019
Your Ordinary World for 7 January 2019 featuring links to stories and points of views you need to start your Monday Morning off right from Ordinary Times.
UBI in 2018
Universal Basic Income did not have the banner year it’s proponents had hoped for. Who knew it would be so hard to get people to take free money?
Despite Promises, Another Black Monday for the Mahoning Valley
41 years after Youngstown’s “Black Monday” meant 5,000 lost jobs immediately and tens of thousands more to follow, the Mahoning Valley endures another day of 4-digit job loss with closure of General Motor’s Lordstown complex.
Jeffersonians vs Hamilitonians Regarding Facebook and Google
A very old argument comes to a contemporary debate. In a fascinating article @Frankpasquale starts at Hayek and runs a thread through Jefferson and Hamilton to the current debate about what, if anything, should be done about the might of Google, Facebook, and other big tech.
Linky Friday: A Conspiracy Of Us
This week: Conspiracies, Media, Labor, Economics, Family, and Stigma!
An Economist Nitpicks Sci-Fi: Foundation and Chaos
In which an economist looks at one of the seminal science fiction works of the 20th Century.
