Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Thanksgiving 400 years ago, a group of intrepid migrants signed the Mayflower Compact IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Lo...
November 25, 2020 pandemic Vaccines and externalities A lovely point from the always creative Tyler Cowen Say, for the purposes of argument, that you had 20,000 vaccine doses to distribute. The...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Commentary Economists Regulation OCC fights de-banking. Fed moves to climate. Part 1: The OCC The OCC issued a refreshing rule proposal , covered in a nice WSJ oped by Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris. It is as inte...
Sunday, November 22, 2020 Cancel culture Commentary pandemic Politics and economics Stanford Condemns Atlas On Friday Nov. 20, as reported in the official Stanford News , the Stanford Faculty Senate formally condemned Scott Atlas, Hoover Senior Fel...
Thursday, November 19, 2020 Commentary Economists inflation Interesting Papers monetary policy A Neo-Fisherian Challenge and Reconciliation Lars Svensson has a very interesting challenge to the Neo-Fisherian view. (See link for slides.) What happens to inflation and unemployme...
Saturday, November 14, 2020 Commentary Economists pandemic Budish Covid-19 update Eric Budish has an update to his excellent Covid-19 paper. Eric has a few deep central insights about pandemic management, which necessaril...
November 14, 2020 Cancel culture Commentary Politics and economics Campus news Three bits of news illustrate the state of things in US academia. 1. UC and Prop 16 A proposition was placed before the citizens of Califor...
Friday, November 13, 2020 Cell phone covid test? "Artificial intelligence model detects asymptomatic Covid-19 infections through cellphone-recorded coughs" reports MIT News. Well...
November 13, 2020 debt European Debt Crisis inflation Debt still matters Debt still matters is an essay on debt at the Chicago Booth Review. It is a cleaned up and edited version of previous blog posts here and...
November 13, 2020 Commentary Politics and economics In praise of slow democracy Steve Landsburg wrote a excellent short WSJ oped adding one more good reason for our apparently cumbersome electoral practices: Imagine ...
Thursday, November 12, 2020 debt Economists inflation Interesting Papers monetary policy 1933 lessons for today Nov 11, Eric Leeper presented " Recovery of 1933 " with Margaret Jacobson and Bruce Preston, at the Hoover " Road Ahead for...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Commentary pandemic Virus over? Not quite The news of a vaccine seems to be sparking an its-all-over sigh of relief. Not so fast. Interesting and challenging corona virus policy rem...
Sunday, November 8, 2020 Commentary pandemic Covid cycles Theory: (From An SIR model with behavior ) Fact: (from Scott Gottlieb via Marginal Revolution ) I do not mean to toot my horn, as many othe...
November 08, 2020 Cancel culture Commentary Politics and economics Biden vs. Harris preview I had a long drive Saturday evening which allowed me to listen to the Harris and Biden speeches. Two lines summed up where we may be heading...