Links for 4/14/20

Links for 4/14/20
Sandel is mixing his meritocratic experts, like Fauci, with the uber speculators who get ahead by taking advantage rather than merit. His egalitarian impulse is spot on. Hopefully Biden will remember he is of Main Street, not Wall Street. If he bans Larry Summers from the White House, we have a chance. In the short term, we will need a higher minimum wage to get people back to work. In the long term, employee ownership is both necessary and inevitable. We need more than just European social democracy, which simply gives workers a nicer cage.

Putting Warren on the ticket risks losing the Midwest by running two Easterners. She would keep the Never-Trumpers, who are already with Joe, home. Also, her staff are true believers who don't listen to outside ideas. The NTs will support Pence if Trump is shown the door to save the GOP from oblivion.

Jacobson only applies if a SARS vaccine is engineered. So far, no luck. The best immunity is still getting sick and recovering.

If Trump is still on the ballot, even voter suppression cannot help him. About now, Putin's hands are too full as COVID flourishes in his country to manipulate ours. Governors, even GOP governors, will remember in November.

The advantage of increased UI is continued liquidity. The problem is the risk of hyperinflation. If it starts here, it will become a contagion everywhere.