Covid Math Today’s craze is “Covid Math” … and everyone’s doing it. The media do it best, highlighting the juiciest, most exciting numbers and making the most electrifying calculations in reporting the number of Americans who have been infected by and died from Covid-19. ...

Coronanomics 101 Remember “too big to fail,” the rationale for the government’s bailout of banks and large corporations during the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis? Doing so was challenged as creating an unacceptable “moral hazard,” the danger that American companies thereafter would rely on the government...

This Time is Different – A Redux As Mark Twain reputedly said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Is history repeating itself today? Or is it merely rhyming? Economists and historians make their livings based on the maxim that cycles – whether economic, social or...

Education in the Time of Covid-19 America became the greatest nation on Earth because America’s educational system was the best on Earth … from elementary school through high school, at the college level and at postgraduate levels, for private as well as for public schooling. Uniform...