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Prejudice is inefficient and can hurt the people with the prejudices
Long-term trends in manufacturing, farming, and protectionism
Peter Drucker was one the most influential management scholars of the 20th century. In 2000 he wrote a special report for The Economist magazine to think about changes over the 20th century and looking towards the 21st. The 20th century…
Some basic economics of the covid-19 pandemic
In 2007, the St. Louis Fed summarized research about the 1918 influenza pandemic and used it to predict what would happen in a pandemic like the present covid-19 crisis. Their predictions have been pretty accurate. For example, the report predicted…
Bush and his team were SOOO much better than Trump and his team.
Once again I find myself longing for the good old days of the George W. Bush administration which was so much more honest and competent. And they weren’t racist nor corrupt. Here is Bush’s chief economic advisor on what should…
America’s covid-19 testing fiasco
Investigative journalists and at least one think tank are putting pressure on the American government to improve our shameful coronavirus testing capability. There is a great article by Brian Resnick and Dylan Scott this morning about it with this new…
How the US should have responded to covid-19… For next time?
If you are scared of the coronavirus and you want to travel somewhere in the world to escape it, ironically, you might want to book a ticket to the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan because Taiwan has…
How do people get the coronavirus?
There are two likely ways that infected people transmit the virus to infect healthy people. Mucus like saliva and snot. These are primarily expressed two ways: As droplets that spray into the air when people cough and sneeze. This is…
