Tagged: lockdowns

May 27, 2021

Thursday Throughput: The Economy of Lockdowns

After a year of evidence, the claim that you must choose between saving the economy and stopping the virus is simply not true.

December 14, 2020

In the case of the coronavirus, the government was buying businesses’ compliance with a quarantine, in order to save lives.

March 26, 2020

The options before us are not “burn the economy down through quarantine” and “burn the economy down through an epidemic”.

March 27, 2025

October 6, 2023

Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025World ending watch: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/341f67658dddec60977630a73fe1f938908a4d8b20262117db4ef…
North in reply to North on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade Warhttps://archive.ph/JcWUC
North in reply to Dark Matter on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarThey have been.
LeeEsq on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarFutures are going down, down, down. https://www.cnbc.com/pre-markets/
Saul Degraw in reply to Dark Matter on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarThere is sometimes a rational basis to be unreasonable and there is nothing wrong with going into some kind of…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarIndia isn't the exact model of political stability itself. My main point is that the tariffs are not going to…
LeeEsq in reply to Dark Matter on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarThis narcissism and the cult around him menas that Americans are going to get experience what shopping in a la…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade WarHe's a narcissist who has surrounded himself with "Yes" men. "Not budging" and "being unreasonable" are part o…