How Much Is $2.3 Trillion? More Than Even Obama Could Imagine
The CARES Act plunges the nation into a crash course on experimental economics.—and we're the lab rats.
The CARES Act plunges the nation into a crash course on experimental economics.—and we're the lab rats.
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Highly-skilled immigrants can contribute to the fight against coronavirus if we let them.
It wouldn't cause more deaths than COVID-19, but an economic crisis could indeed raise the suicide rate precipitously.
The ruling is in line with numerous other court decisions on the same subject, but conflicts with an anomalous recent ruling by the Second Circuit.
Politicians are merely using COVID-19 to push for policies they already wanted.
A uniform national response risks doing more harm than good in a nation that’s not uniform.
At least some unnecessary regulations are finally being waived.
So far politicians have been acting as if only one side of the ledger matters.
But he stands by his reasoning and predicts that global deaths will peak under 50,000.
The media can reasonably blame Trump for a lot of things. This is not one of them.
The Reason Roundtable podcast looks at the crappy track record of government policy forged in crisis.
What's dangerous is not trusting people with the truth.
If you really want politicians to do something helpful, ask them to stop "leading" and to get out of the way.
FDA is reportedly cutting red tape to give expanded access to COVID-19 patients.
How broken bureaucracy and poor political leadership combined to botch the rollout of COVID-19 testing
The NYU Law professor thinks we're in for a mess of bad epidemiology, ineffective stimulus, and misguided quarantines.
The worst-case scenarios projecting millions of deaths don't take into account adaptive behaviors.
The package seeks to curb the economic chaos caused by COVID-19.
While the rest of the country was hunkering down against coronavirus, Democrats have very nearly chosen their presidential nominee.
In the past, the federal government has sent everyone checks to stimulate the economy. But paying for all the losses that come with a coronavirus-induced shutdown would require more novel policies.
In the pandemic's wake, we'll learn, work, and live more online than ever.
Some of Trump's tariffs hit medical equipment and supplies from China. We need more trade, not less, to be prepared for pandemics.
The White House has issued new 15-day guidelines for slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The president implied at a press conference that crisis measures could be needed for much longer.
Having failed to be fiscally responsible when it would have been relatively easier, our elected officials will now likely hike spending even further.
But what he will do with that power remains uncertain.
Despite the slow-growing anxieties and government incompetence, expect Americans to be resilient in fighting the pandemic.
Here's what public health experts are saying.
Trump wants a poorly targeted, budget-busting payroll tax that might encourage sick people to work.
The House bill seems to be more focused on leveraging political points than fighting coronavirus. Republicans can relate.
The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary wants mandatory quarantines and a "digital Dunkirk" rescue operation.
Some Republican senators are working hard to get Trump behind stronger fixes.
In two weeks we will know if his public health measures are too little, too late.
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The biotech entrepreneur and Silicon Valley visionary calls for a "digital Dunkirk" to fix government failure and preserve future freedoms.
Americans and those traveling from the U.K. will be exempted.
Initial hopes that the public health consequences of the new coronavirus would be mild are fading.
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
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American whisky and wine drinkers are being punished for trying to amicably trade what they have for what they want.
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The Reason Roundtable podcast debates the severity of the both the outbreak and the potential governmental responses.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
It's an interesting strategy for a president who ran in 2016 on a Nixonian "law and order" platform.
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Were the Justice Department's redactions influenced by Barr's desire to exonerate the president?