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July 31, 2016 by

Don’t Worry About the Side Effects, Rigidity Is the Problem

Simple advice to innovators and policymakers: Don’t worry about collateral needs or they will distort your good growth and policy efforts. If we look back, the development of the automobile had collateral effects beyond the ability of the auto pioneers to conceive. Yet there were those who would have restricted automobile development because they worried […]

Virus Will Harm Thanksgiving and Christmas as the Crisis Worsens

Llewellyn King

It is coming to us as a diabolical enemy: malign, merciless and murderous. The second wave of COVID-19 will be killing us today, tomorrow, and on and on until a vaccine is administered not just to the willing recipients, but to the whole population. That could take years. We haven’t been through anything like this […]

How Polls Cause Political Pied Pipers To Join the Rats

Llewellyn King

Damn, damn, damn the polls. My irritation has nothing to do with the way they botched this election; or how they botched the last two British elections or the Brexit vote. It is not a matter, to my mind, of whether the polls get it wrong. It is a matter simply that they are taken […]

The Great Issues Were Not Raised In This Campaign

Llewellyn King

“Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?” was the title of a 1963 book by Jimmy Breslin about the disastrous first year of the New York Mets, an expansion team. It’s attributed to the team’s manager Casey Stengel. As I’ve watched this picaresque presidential election year unfold, I’ve had the same thought. The game is governance; the campaign, […]