President Joe Biden’s first year in office was not so good. Our collective 2021 was arguably very bad, indeed. Data, as well as political and…
Posts tagged as “COVID-19”
State and local election results in 2021 have provided pundits with a lot of fodder to make simplistic pronouncements on what voters were telling political…
Patriots would wear masks and get vaccinated. But, the loud self-proclaimed “American Patriots” seem to be occupied with posts on social media declaring Pres. Joe…
Apologies to my former students and my colleagues for committing the sin of oversimplification. I know I am using static values of population and not…
Since the start of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, the United States federal government has allocated $1 trillion through administrative actions, $4.1 trillion through legislative…
Do “Hero Wage” laws during the coronavirus pandemic lead to supermarket closures? The short answer is, “Rarely.” That still doesn’t make such laws good policy.…
If Democrats pass legislation forgiving loans, the move might be popular with their educated progressive base, yet unpopular with many working-class voters. Student debt is…
We should not need laws to encourage us to do the right things. Libertarianism and classical liberalism depend on people not needing to be forced…
The emergency aid was $2 trillion dollars. “We had to pass it.” It was named the CARES Act, Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.…