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One member state has become a dictatorship as others spiral into debt. Germany must lead through the coronavirus crisis.
April 6, 2020 via The Guardian via Hoover Daily Report
Will the recovery be V shaped, quickly roaring back to the previous level? It does that every January 2 after the long Halloween-Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Years slowdown, and it did in 1984. Or will it be an agonizingly slow U or L shape, as the recovery from 2008 turned out to be?
April 6, 2020 via The Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
Currently most Western countries are embroiled in political disputes and recriminations over which leaders responded effectively and which failed in the current crisis. Yet both so-called populists and globalists are threatened by the same virus that came from Wuhan. Co-Author: Nicolas Goetzmann
April 6, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
The evidence does not support our panicked inferences.
April 6, 2020 via undefined via Defining Ideas
This virus will be with us a long time. Even if the massive national shutdown stops the spread of the virus in the US by summer, there will remain hotspots. Then someone travels, reinfects a city, and here we go again.
April 4, 2020 via Grumpy Economist via Hoover Daily Report
Is the bad and self-negating behavior of so many of Trump’s enemies setting him up for an even more impressive victory in the fall?
April 5, 2020 via American Greatness via Hoover Daily Report
One of America’s last World War II fighter aces died on April 1, at the age of 100. Rear Admiral Edward L. “Whitey” Feightner passed away after a lifetime of service to the nation. His naval career lasted 32 years, from 1942, when he enlisted after graduation from Findlay College in Ohio, to 1974, after commanding air squadrons, two ships, and serving in senior Pentagon staff positions.
April 6, 2020 via National Review via Hoover Daily Report
How to pass the time until the presidential campaign returns in earnest?
April 5, 2020 via Forbes via Hoover Daily Report
The potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is enormous. But draconian policies to tackle the virus also have colossal costs. Ignoring the trade-offs could land us with one of the worst possible outcomes.
April 5, 2020 via Economic Times (India) via Hoover Daily Report
Economist and author Arnold Kling talks about the revised edition of his book The Three Languages of Politics in front of a live audience at the Cato Institute, recorded in September of 2019. Kling talks about the changed political landscape in the United States and around the world and how his ideas have changed since the book was first published in 2013.
April 6, 2020 via EconTalk via Hoover Daily Report
A senior research and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, David Griffith, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss a new study that investigates whether student achievement increases as the market share of charter schools grows.
April 6, 2020 via The Education Exchange via Hoover Daily Report
Education leaders nationwide are working 24/7 to set up distance-learning opportunities for their students for the rest of the school year. That includes navigating multiple logistical and regulatory hurdles, training millions of educators overnight in how to use online tools, and figuring out how to get digital devices and packets of printed material into children’s hands, among dozens of other pressing tasks.
April 6, 2020 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
Along with a slight appreciation of Laura Ingraham. Consistent with the spirit of my most recent post, “Socratic Grilling as a Way to Learn,” I watch the Fox News Channel a few times a week and often flip to CNN to see what they’re saying. On both networks, people spin like crazy. Which does not mean that you can’t learn from each.
April 3, 2020 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
In his 1987 book on the AIDS crisis, And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts has a section on a press release put out by the American Medical Association on May 6, 1983. Because of copyright issues, I won’t reproduce all 3 pages of Shilts’s treatment of the issue. Instead I’ll quote the press release in full and then quote selectively from Shilts’s discussion.
April 5, 2020 via EconLog via Hoover Daily Report
The owner of Manhattan’s largest supermarket chain, John Catsimatidis, on panic buying, mask-clad cashiers, and how the pandemic will permanently change his business.
April 3, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
The U.S. must protect its citizens from disease while starting the urgent work of planning for a new epoch.
April 3, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
The novel coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated already tense relations between the United States and China. Even before the coronavirus came along, many experts were already describing the relationship between the two countries as a “new Cold War” or “Cold War 2.0.” But now, the virus has added a new accelerant to the confrontation — with both sides now blaming each other for creating and spreading the disease.
March 26, 2020 via The Washington Post via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Kiron Skinner discusses the US military joining the fight against COVID-19, and how much they selflessly give to save others.
April 6, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Scott Atlas discusses COVID-19 models used by governments to determine whether to shut down the economy, the questions of balancing economics and public health, and when we can finally get back to normal, and much more.
April 5, 2020 via The Daily Wire via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin discusses how the Chinese lies and manipulation impact the rest of the world.
April 3, 2020 via The John Batchelor Show via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Jack Goldsmith discusses with Stephen Holmes the fate of liberalism in the decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Holmes’s experience studying Eastern European politics, the problems with trying to export liberalism across the globe, and the factors that have led to the global rise of illiberal leaders.
April 4, 2020 via The Lawfare Podcast via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Marko Kounalakis talks with experts from around the world about Yemen, oil, and Saudi Arabia.
April 4, 2020 via WorldAffairs via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow John Yoo discusses state actions to combat the coronavirus and whether those actions are constitutional.
April 4, 2020 via Fox News via Hoover Daily Report
Hoover Institution fellow Raghuram Rajan considers whether the COVID-19 crisis may be contributing to a decline in political populism.
April 3, 2020 via Chicago Booth Review via Hoover Daily Report
Victor Davis Hanson was on The Ingraham Angle last night with Laura Ingraham. He’s a senior fellow, brilliant man at the Hoover Institution’s campus at Stanford, Palo Alto. He’s a farmer in the California Central Valley.
April 3, 2020 via Rush Limbaugh Show via Hoover Daily Report
Frank Dikötter's new book, 'How to Be a Dictator,' takes a sweeping look at some of the most tyrannical men of the last century and finds a surprising number of cautionary commonalities.
April 3, 2020 via The Federalist via Hoover Daily Report
Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan sees the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic as the “greatest emergency” India has faced since independence.
April 5, 2020 via Bloomberg via Hoover Daily Report
Italy’s grim arc of death begins to follow other countries that have come out on the other side. NYC is about to follow this difficult transition from a spike of death to a lesser toll in the coming weeks. We also are very close to getting news, I believe to be good news on treatments for Wuhan Fever.
April 5, 2020 via Seeking Alpha via Hoover Daily Report
In recent days, I have been wishing to hear from Thomas Sowell on our current pandemic predicament. Fortunately, he has already produced enough quotable wisdom to last for millennia.
April 4, 2020 via Ricochet via Hoover Daily Report
President Donald Trump downplayed the coronavirus threat, was slow to move and has delivered mixed messages to the nation. The federal bureaucracy bungled rapid production of tests for the virus. Stockpiles of crucial medical materials were limited and supply lines cumbersome. States and hospitals were plunged into life-or-death competition with one another.
April 4, 2020 via The Hour via Hoover Daily Report
Public-health officials have given “conflicting, confusing and sometimes disingenuous advice” on whether face masks protect against the novel coronavirus, notes Reason’s Jacob Sullum.
April 2, 2020 via The New York Post via Hoover Daily Report
Calls are growing for the U.S. to reduce its dependence on China for key medicines and supplies as Americans face widespread shortages in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
April 5, 2020 via The Hill via Hoover Daily Report
Just two weeks ago, the likelihood of a major US recession as a consequence of the public health challenge was still in doubt. In the past few days, the number of claims filed for unemployment insurance hit record levels; the total number of Covid-19 cases in the United States went past 100,000; and parts of the country have imposed lockdowns – closing non-essential businesses and requiring people to stay at home as much as possible.
April 6, 2020 via The LSE US Centre via Hoover Daily Report
[Subscription required] Antivirals and antibody therapies are showing promise. The FDA needs to step up its pace.
April 5, 2020 via The Wall Street Journal via Hoover Daily Report
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