Supply and Demand (in that order)
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Measuring Employment between Monthly Surveys
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The Employment Situation Report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes only monthly. It measures only the seven-day week (or, with the e...
Monday, April 20, 2020
Show us the fevers
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By all accounts, hundreds of millions of us are confined to home despite being perfectly healthy. The purpose of all of this, we're to...
30+ million out of a job
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A one-size-fits-all policy, even at the state level, has been a mistake from the beginning. Instead policy should be favoring ...
Friday, April 17, 2020
Shutdown reduces the flow of GDP by 28 percent
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New data from Alexander Bick and Adam Blandin suggest that the flow of real GDP is 28 percent less than it would be under normal circumsta...
Saturday, April 4, 2020
What's Wrong with this Reasoning?
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FACT: the population density of NYC is 27K per square mile FACT: the population density of Indianapolis is 2K per square mile FACT: COVI...
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Thursday, April 2, 2020
Where did the fevers go?
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This website tracks real time fevers using thermometers connected to the internet. A first glance at their map suggests to me that: ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
What's Happening with Drug Abuse?
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I don't know where to find very recent counts of drug overdoses. Below is alcohol sales , showing that the sales increase is greater f...
Is a Shutdown an Overreaction?
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60,000 - 80,000 Americans died from the 2017-18 flu, without exceeding the capacity of ICU beds. This flu was experienced around the wor...
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Monday, March 30, 2020
An example of 7(a) perversion
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Let's say that you have 700 employees in the prior year, earning an average of $50K. If you continue that between now and the end o...
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
Has Lombardy Reached the Flat Part of the Daily Death Curve?
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From various sources. I don't have exact numbers before March 15, but the first half of March averaged closed to 100 per day and Febru...
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