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‘Going Big’: White House Says COVID-19 Relief Checks on Way to Americans 0
- Economics
- March 17, 2020
To stimulate a flagging economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration is “going big” by sending out checks directly to Americans. During the daily briefing with the White House’s coronavirus task force, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said more details are coming, but suggested the amount of money in the checks
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The Myth That the President and the Fed Direct the Stock Market 0
- Economics
- March 17, 2020
If you own stocks, you’re probably searching for explanations about the sudden bear market. The answers you find likely start with an event: what the Fed does, what President Trump does, or what the coronavirus does. For example, last week, news stories conflated a speech by President Trump with the market decline: “The president’s prime
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Pandemic Through the Eyes of a Globalist 0
- Culture
- March 17, 2020
Nearly 50 years ago, philosopher Thomas Nagel published a now-classic thought experiment on the nature of consciousness. “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” is an attempt to do what is ultimately impossible: to see the world through the eyes of another sentient being. Whether Nagel succeeded is anyone’s guess. (The bat lobby has
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Government COVID-19 Tests Were Awful, Now Private Labs Are Saving the Day 0
- Economics
- March 17, 2020
The World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus a global pandemic. As of Friday afternoon, there are 132,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 worldwide, and the global death toll has topped 5,000 people. The fast-spreading virus claimed 196 lives in Italy, on Tuesday alone. At this time, 90 percent of all cases are in four countries:
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How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2020
Last week I saw a C.S. Lewis quote shared on social media. I’d seen this quote from his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age” before, but shrugged it off as a nice thought that didn’t really apply any more. Never mind. Swap out “atomic bomb” for “coronavirus” and the relevance of the quote becomes
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You May Think You Like Socialism, but You’re Probably Not a Socialist at Heart 0
- Culture
- March 16, 2020
Did you ever have to do a big project with another classmate in elementary or high school? If so, did you find sometimes you were the one doing all the work while your teammate didn’t do much other than share in the good grade you earned? How did that make you feel? Probably angry and
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