The Iran deal; The Donald; student debt and college affordability

November 5, 2015 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment

Guests: Edward Achorn, The Providence Journal; Tom Paterson, Paterson + Company
Topics: The Iran deal; The Donald; student debt and college affordability

Trust Deficit Endangers Benefits from Vaccine Due Next Month

Llewellyn King

There is a trust deficit in this country, and it may kill a lot of us. We haven’t been trusting for a long time, but distrust reached its zenith during and after the recent election. The election, still contested, brought with it a massive overhang of distrust. Indeed, the past four years have been marked […]

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

Llewellyn King

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 […]

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