By William R. Collier, Jr. The number one question in America right now? When to reopen for business. The left leans toward delaying the reopening of “inessential” businesses. These are, however, essential to the sustenance of their employees and owners. The right leans toward a fast reboot, devil take the hindmost, on […]
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Partisan Food Fight Hobbles COVID-19 Treatment Research
By Erik Sass, Editor-in-Chief The U.S. debate over chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has become highly politicized. Ever since President Trump first mentioned the drugs on March 19 as a potential treatments for COVID-19, views of the issue have been polarized along familiar partisan lines. This may be due to Trump using […]
Fred Gluck: Imagining a Bipartisan, Systematic Approach to Healthcare Reform
By Fred Gluck, TES Contributor As COVID-19 rivets our attention on health care, all proposed fixes for our health care system – from Medicare for All to a lightly regulated free market model – have the same fatal flaw. They merely tinker with the status quo, a slapdash, piecemeal design that will never […]
Ending the Jones Act Would Give China More Leverage
By Ernest Istook, Former U.S. Rep (R, OK-5) China aggressively aims to dominate world trade by dominating how goods are shipped around the globe as well as by making other countries dependent on its goods. Because 90% of world trade goes by ship, it seeks to command maritime trade by building […]
Congress Should Put Puerto Rico Statehood on the Post-COVID To-Do List
By Mario H. Lopez, Hispanic Leadership Fund One thing the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic has shown in terms of public policy is that when there is a real need, lawmakers are indeed actually capable of working in a bipartisan fashion to address pressing issues. The current process has had its stumbling blocks—media dust-ups and substantive […]
RED SWAN: The Story of a Secret Cable and the Crisis We Could Have Seen Coming
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor COVID-19: It’s all we talk about, on the cable news, and in our 6-foot socially-distanced prison walks around our silent neighborhoods. And in nearly every conversation comes the intellectual shrug, “who could have seen this coming?” A single phrase that neatly absolves governments and experts alike of […]
COVID Bailout for the Postal Service: A First-Class Mistake
By Oliver McPherson-Smith and Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute As the Beltway grapples with reviving the American economy amidst Coronavirus, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is asking for $85 billion in government bailout money to weather this crisis. But the costs inflicted by the virus are just a drop in the bucket when […]
Beware the COVID-19 Corporate Zombies!
“The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19″ Gerard Lucyshyn, courtesy of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), […]
Government’s plan for reopening Mexico is insufficient
“COVID-19: Economic Reactivation In Latin America” Courtesy of IMCO On April 5, the Mexican government presented an economic revival plan in the face of the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This plan is insufficient to protect families’ incomes, jobs and regain economic dynamism. In contrast, other Latin American countries have announced ambitious economic rescue plans that provide […]
Certified COVID immunity is an economic resource
“Certified corona immunity as a resource” Courtesy of IREF In a new IREF Working Paper, David Stadelmann (Bayreuth University and IREF) and his co-authors discuss how the corona epidemic can be made less burdensome. They focus on the role of those who are immune after recovering from the illness and do not pose any health risks to […]