On June 24, Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky extended the national eviction moratorium for tenants unable to pay rent through the end of July. First enacted last September,…

Few countries have imposed more frequent and more stringent lockdown measures to combat Covid-19 than Australia. Their efforts have been so restrictive that the British Medical Journal likened them to…

After the experimental treatment for Alzheimer’s named aducanumab failed a futility test, its producers Biogen and Eisai lost hope the Food and Drug Administration would ever approve it. Despite…

In a heart-wrenching story written in 2017, Rachael Kaplan details her lifelong struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Enduring chronic and severe abuse as a child, Rachael strongly…

There is, understandably, a lot of talk about inflation lately. Much of this talk is rooted in a naïve interpretation of the quantity theory. An increase in the quantity of money is thought to surely…

Pandemics are global public health crises – spreading from one individual to others, expanding exponentially across the globe. Or, as an economist would phrase it, spillover effects of disease spread…

There are two modes of monetary intervention: monetarist and Keynesian. Monetarist policy leverages long-run macroeconomic relationships. Namely, the positive relationship between the rate of money…

While I strongly expect that we will see higher than expected inflation during the approaching cycle, we are still in the early stage of recovery. Inflation expectations have, so far, not lifted to a…

Late 19th century America was rife with social reformers arguing for the need to deal with many forms of societal distress. One of those was the concern (some would say fear) for those suffering with…

Low interest rates are a sign of easy money. At least, this is what I was led to believe before I studied monetary policy. It is easy to be led toward this sort of thinking. The central bank, seeking…