…are going to the dump.
It’s a pointless uneconomic ritual, and civic religion.
Category Archives: Economics
Crisis
Real and imagined.
Data And Numbers
Where are we really with the virus?
Note that (as is often the case with healthcare statistics) different countries are keeping books differently, making it difficult to compare. I continue to believe that the fatality rate will ultimately end up being far below one percent.
[Update early afternoon]
A lot of links from Instapundit. Things are looking better than the models. One I found of interest is that if we can believe Chinese data, four out of five cases are asymptomatic.
Ira Einhorn
David Plouffe
“Trump is going to win in November, you know.”
Don’t get cocky. And I’m still not convinced that Biden is going to be the candidate.
This Could Work For California, Too
New York will raise taxes on the coronavirus to encourage it to flee the state.
A Fit Of Sanity
San Francisco (!) has reversed its plastic-bag ban, and instead (finally) banned reusable bags.
Hopefully this won’t be temporary; it was always stupid.
[Update a few minutes later]
Katherine was prescient (as was I).
Innovation, Privacy, And Nature
How the pandemic will change our views of them.
Building Moon Bases
…with astronaut pee.
Spain And Italy
…have been abandoned by the EU.
Between this and Brexit, I don’t think the EU will survive.