Daily Economy
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Seminar with Edward Stringham, Knut Wittkowski, David Henderson, and Bill Luddy (Video)
The American Institute for Economic Research held a live seminar with Knut Wittkowski, David Henderson, and Bill Luddy. The topic: whether we have to choose between health and wealth.
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Nondefense Capital-Goods Orders Excluding Aircraft Remain in a Flat Trend
Core capital-goods orders remain in a flat trend, but ongoing restrictions on business activity will likely result in distorted economic data for several more months.
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Struggling Economy Sends Consumer Sentiment Tumbling Again in April
The unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is distorting economic activity, crushing the labor market, and pummeling consumer sentiment.
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The Urgent Need for Intellectual Change
The rebuilding of a free society after this chaos is over will require a great deal of work in the above four areas: mathematics, moral philosophy, history, and economics. In my darker moments I think that in fact we have gone back to ground zero in all these areas.
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It’s Not Capitalism Bringing Us Deaths of Despair
In recent years, authors left and right have tried to draw our attention towards the ills of the white working class, the “losers” of globalization. Here is a look at the latest work of Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton: Deaths of Despair.
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Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society
The world in which we presently live, unfortunately, demonstrates that we are still far from fully being those human beings developed in their character and senses of right and wrong to properly understand and defend our own freedom and that of others, as well.
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There Will Be Blowback, In Mostly Good Ways
Our lives in the coming years will be defined by forms of backlash, as a much needed corrective. You can’t take away everyone’s rights, put a whole people under house arrest, and abolish the rule of law without generating a response to that in the future.
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Massive Job Losses Continue but The Pace Slows
The unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak continues to crush the labor market and distort economic activity.
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A Locked-Down Country Is Vulnerable to Attack
In a state of lockdown, we are more vulnerable than ever. People are prisoners in their homes, with private firms shuttered and inert. America is in a recession, and perhaps in a depression. Government resources are depleted, and a sizable portion of the population is wandering around their home demoralized, confused, and depressed. Straight talk:…
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How Wrong Were the Models and Why?
Epidemiological expertise may convey specialized knowledge about the nature of disease transmission that is specifically suited to forecasting a pandemic’s spread. But it does not exempt the modelers from social scientific best practices for testing the robustness of their claims. Nor does it obviate basic rules of statistical analysis.
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Seminar with Edward Stringham, Knut Wittkowski, David Henderson, and Bill Luddy (Video)
The American Institute for Economic Research held a live seminar with Knut Wittkowski, David Henderson, and Bill Luddy. The topic: whether we have to choose between health and wealth.
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•
Nondefense Capital-Goods Orders Excluding Aircraft Remain in a Flat Trend
Core capital-goods orders remain in a flat trend, but ongoing restrictions on business activity will likely result in distorted economic data for several more months.
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•
Struggling Economy Sends Consumer Sentiment Tumbling Again in April
The unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak is distorting economic activity, crushing the labor market, and pummeling consumer sentiment.
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•
The Urgent Need for Intellectual Change
The rebuilding of a free society after this chaos is over will require a great deal of work in the above four areas: mathematics, moral philosophy, history, and economics. In my darker moments I think that in fact we have gone back to ground zero in all these areas.
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•
It’s Not Capitalism Bringing Us Deaths of Despair
In recent years, authors left and right have tried to draw our attention towards the ills of the white working class, the “losers” of globalization. Here is a look at the latest work of Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton: Deaths of Despair.
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•
Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society
The world in which we presently live, unfortunately, demonstrates that we are still far from fully being those human beings developed in their character and senses of right and wrong to properly understand and defend our own freedom and that of others, as well.
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•
There Will Be Blowback, In Mostly Good Ways
Our lives in the coming years will be defined by forms of backlash, as a much needed corrective. You can’t take away everyone’s rights, put a whole people under house arrest, and abolish the rule of law without generating a response to that in the future.
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•
Massive Job Losses Continue but The Pace Slows
The unprecedented economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak continues to crush the labor market and distort economic activity.
-
•
A Locked-Down Country Is Vulnerable to Attack
In a state of lockdown, we are more vulnerable than ever. People are prisoners in their homes, with private firms shuttered and inert. America is in a recession, and perhaps in a depression. Government resources are depleted, and a sizable portion of the population is wandering around their home demoralized, confused, and depressed. Straight talk:…
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•
How Wrong Were the Models and Why?
Epidemiological expertise may convey specialized knowledge about the nature of disease transmission that is specifically suited to forecasting a pandemic’s spread. But it does not exempt the modelers from social scientific best practices for testing the robustness of their claims. Nor does it obviate basic rules of statistical analysis.