Matt Shapiro on vaccinating kids; Bari Weiss and Yascha Mounk talk to Andrew Yang; Tyler Cowen on inflation; Razib Khan talks with Tanner Greer; the new University of Austin
Re Shapiro It's hard to show non-transmission, but it just seems logical that jazzed up the immune system enough to reduce severity would reduce transmission. And the downsides are low.
"And if the government runs big deficits to increase spending, but you have to consume less, prices have to go up." This leave out the Fed. Deficits do not increase spending if the Fed does not agree. Taxing and spending decision affects who spends; the Fed determines the total amount of spending. You might say the Fed mis-estimated how inflation would respond to its management of monetary instruments and that your estimate back then was better.
Re Khan on Libertarians. Partial credit. Assuming we give Libertarians credit for freer trade (focusing more on getting other countries to reduce their restrictions on our service exports than our goods exports) coupled with structural deficits that (paradoxically) overvalued the dollar created a lot of problems. But it was conservative being more successful in reducing taxes than restraining spending that produced the deficits.
Re Khan "the average Trump supporter, he's an individualist at the end of the day" This may explain not getting vaccinated because they do not care about transmission, but does not explain anti-immigration sentiment as immigration is a positive sum game in material terms.
The meme “they use the government to make sure that everyone believes what they want. But we never do that” is used by partisans of all sides. Of course conservatives use the govt. to influence people’s beliefs. Everyone does this when they are in power.
“I think we need to unbundle the university in order to replace it.” Totally agree. It will not be too long before a Woke army invades U. of Austin in an administrative Trojan Horse. The idea that a comprehensive liberal education is necessary in order to write software or engineer a bridge belongs in the past. People need marketable skills, which can be taught without extreme ideological indoctrination and at much lower cost, probably without bricks and mortar.
Re Shapiro It's hard to show non-transmission, but it just seems logical that jazzed up the immune system enough to reduce severity would reduce transmission. And the downsides are low.
"And if the government runs big deficits to increase spending, but you have to consume less, prices have to go up." This leave out the Fed. Deficits do not increase spending if the Fed does not agree. Taxing and spending decision affects who spends; the Fed determines the total amount of spending. You might say the Fed mis-estimated how inflation would respond to its management of monetary instruments and that your estimate back then was better.
Re Khan on Libertarians. Partial credit. Assuming we give Libertarians credit for freer trade (focusing more on getting other countries to reduce their restrictions on our service exports than our goods exports) coupled with structural deficits that (paradoxically) overvalued the dollar created a lot of problems. But it was conservative being more successful in reducing taxes than restraining spending that produced the deficits.
Re Khan "the average Trump supporter, he's an individualist at the end of the day" This may explain not getting vaccinated because they do not care about transmission, but does not explain anti-immigration sentiment as immigration is a positive sum game in material terms.
The meme “they use the government to make sure that everyone believes what they want. But we never do that” is used by partisans of all sides. Of course conservatives use the govt. to influence people’s beliefs. Everyone does this when they are in power.
“I think we need to unbundle the university in order to replace it.” Totally agree. It will not be too long before a Woke army invades U. of Austin in an administrative Trojan Horse. The idea that a comprehensive liberal education is necessary in order to write software or engineer a bridge belongs in the past. People need marketable skills, which can be taught without extreme ideological indoctrination and at much lower cost, probably without bricks and mortar.
What's the correct link the podcast with Khan & Greer?