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In this episode, we answer listener questions that we didn’t have time to cover in the previous listener special episode.

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Deepfake

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2020/05/25/deepfakes-are-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-society-we-are-not-prepared/#3748f25d7494

https://www.instagram.com/p/BypkGIvFfGZ/

Oscars

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/movies/oscars-diversity-rule.html

Foolishness of the Week

VA Hospital

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/62-year-old-patient-missing-since-may-found-dead-va-hospitals-stairwell/EBWXDSM3IJBCLNGXOHLUYPAVYY/

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Deficit Day - the hypothetical day on which the federal government’s tax revenues for the year run out - lands on June 21. Not only is that the earliest Deficit Day has fallen since World War II, the date will get revised to even earlier in the calendar if the government undertakes more stimulus spending.

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The riots sweeping the country are the result of a perfect storm. It’s about racism, but more. It’s about police accountability, but more. It’s about too many people being out of work, but more. The first step to solving our problems is understanding that they are often more complicated than they appear.

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Quick Hits

SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/

Food Prices

https://apnews.com/54f1efe0afa71b0a939fda91cf917366

Foolishness of the Week

Minneapolis Mayor

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minneapolis-jacob-frey-white-supremacists-out-of-state-instigators-george-floyd-protests

Topic of the Week: Riots and Police Response

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protest-update/reuters-cameraman-hit-by-rubber-bullets-as-police-disperse-protesters-idUSKBN237050

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In this episode, we answer listener questions.

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Quick Hits

Doordash

https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage

Joe Biden

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/amazon-joe-biden-taxes

Foolishness of the Week

Biden Aims at Charter Schools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgVbi0oD8uM

Topic of the Week

Your Questions!

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In New York City, stop and frisk was controversial because it was a violation of the Fourth Amendment. As implemented, police would stop and frisk people without showing probable cause that the people were committing, or might be committing, a crime. The courts subsequently required that police demonstrate probable cause. But social distancing laws appear to be poised to take the place of stop and frisk, creating the opportunity for police to violate people’s Fourth Amendment rights.

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Microsoft Wrong about Open Source

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262103/microsoft-open-source-linux-history-wrong-statement

Elon Musk

https://www.chron.com/news/article/As-it-prepares-to-fly-humans-Elon-Musk-s-SpaceX-15275155.php]

Foolishness of the Week

Don’t Swim in New York

https://www.the-sun.com/news/847367/bill-de-blasio-anyone-swim-nyc-beach-taken-right-out/

Bonus Material Links

LA Mayor Says LA Won’t Reopen

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-covid-los-angeles-la-county-mayor-health-reopen-vaccine/

Another Source

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/health/us-coronavirus-tuesday/index.html

Topic of the Week

Judicial Scrutiny

https://reason.com/2020/05/06/supreme-court-justices-in-texas-and-pennsylvania-emphasize-that-covid-19-lockdowns-require-judicial-scrutiny/

A Confederacy of Dunces

https://www.amazon.com/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole-ebook/dp/B008UX2UIO

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This week is part two of Stossel in the Classroom meets Words & Numbers. We continue the conversation with John Stossel about economics, politics, and society.

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Quick Hits

Peer to Peer Charging

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339350758_P2C2_Peer-to-Peer_Car_Charging

Baseball!

https://apnews.com/6195fbe572aa83a0616053e9133a8551

Foolishness of the Week

Lorena Gonzalez

https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2020/05/10/san-diegos-lorena-gonzalez-slams-elon-musk-over-tesla-threat-to-leave-california/

Topic of the Week

Stossel in the Classroom

https://stosselintheclassroom.org/

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John Stossel joins us this week to talk about economics, politics, and society. This is part one of two, so be sure to tune in next week for more exciting discussions!

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Quick Hits

Naomi’s Potato

https://twitter.com/khaleesi_101/status/1255817022551863296/photo/1

Glass in the Soviet Union

https://www-jstor-org.authenticate.library.duq.edu/stable/4202738?seq=7#metadata_info_tab_contents

South Korean Baseball

https://www.thewrap.com/espn-finds-a-sport-will-air-south-korean-baseball-games/

Foolishness of the Week

Students Sue Colleges for Their Money Back

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/angry-undergrads-are-suing-colleges-for-billions-in-refunds/ar-BB13t6wd

Topic of the Week

Stossel in the Classroom

https://stosselintheclassroom.org/

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A depression differs from a recession in both the severity of the downturn and the duration. Recessions typically last months; the Great Depression lasted a decade. Importantly, the Great Depression started as an economic phenomenon, but the current “Great Suppression” started as a policy phenomenon. State governments deliberately shut down an otherwise vibrant economy. As we prepare to restart our economic engine, we consider things the government did right and did wrong in attempting to restart the economy during the Great Depression.

Live with Stossel May 1st, 2020 @12 pm ET

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Quick Hits

Disincentives of Unemployment Benefits

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/21/838879361/bitter-taste-for-coffee-shop-owner-as-new-600-jobless-benefit-closed-her-busines

Forgivable Loan Backfire

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/she-got-a-paycheck-protection-loan-her-employees-hate-her-for-it.html

Smokers Less Likely to Get COVID?

https://news.yahoo.com/smokers-four-times-less-likely-151203823.html

Foolishness of the Week

Parents are Authoritarians

https://nypost.com/2020/04/23/harvard-professor-wants-to-ban-authoritarian-homeschooling/

Topic of the Week

Harold L. Cole

https://economics.sas.upenn.edu/people/harold-l-cole

History of the Great Depression

https://fee.org/media/37305/deppod.pdf

The Path to Growth Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hd_j9OX43g

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In times of crisis, humans develop a dangerous, asymmetric view of events. We readily see the damage the crisis causes, but we don’t readily see the potential damage that proposed solutions can cause. And when information is uncertain, we tend to believe the worst about the crisis while tending to believe the best about proposed solutions. There is mounting evidence that this is playing out right now with the decision to shut down the economy in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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Quick Hits

How We Deal with Lockdowns

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/15/coronavirus-police-maryland-town-urge-residents-wear-pants/5140750002/

Ghosts

https://www.indy100.com/article/indonesia-ghosts-terrifying-coronavirus-lockdown-stay-home-9462511

Australia Trend

https://www.sadanduseless.com/bin-isolation-outing/

Italian Toast

https://www.facebook.com/MagnificentItaly/videos/178130129869702

Llama Rentals

https://futurism.com/the-byte/rent-goats-llamas-zoom-meetings

Pet Skype Calls

https://www.themarysue.com/the-new-york-times-is-wrong-about-pets-on-video-conferences/

CO2 Supplies Diminishing

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethanol-beer/beer-may-lose-its-fizz-as-co2-supplies-go-flat-during-pandemic-idUSKBN2200G3

Foolishness of the Week

Covid Scam

https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages

Topic of the Week

Flu Index

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

United State Corona Cases

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

Santa Clara County Case Study

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1

Boston’s Homeless Testing

https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/14/coronavirus-boston-homeless-testing

Corona’s Reach

https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-15-percent-infection-rate/

Quarantined Cruise Ship

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099517/japan-coronavirus-patients-diamond-princess/

Economic Outcome

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/coronavirus-economy-recession-depression.html

Intervention Cost Breakdowns

http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/interventions.pdf

Cardiovascular Disease Spending

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495132/

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Vernon Smith, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics joins us on this episode to talk about the economic impact of the coronavirus and why, though we will have to push through some pain, we can be optimistic about the future.

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Quick Hits

Sweden’s Approach to Coronavirus

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/europe/sweden-lockdown-turmp-intl/index.html

Non-essentials

https://www.businessinsider.com/costco-walmart-target-stop-selling-non-essential-items-select-states-2020-4

Michigan Governor

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/11/gretchen-whitmer-gardening-seeds-non-essential/

Foolishness of the Week

Pope Francis – On Universal Wage

https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-francis-it-might-be-time-to-consider-universal-basic-wage-2020-4

On “Nature’s Response”

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/491734-pope-says-coronavirus-outbreak-may-be-one-of-natures-responses-to

Topic of the Week

Vernon Smith – USA Today & WSJ

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/vernon-smith

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/23/coronavirus-economy-lives-suspense-not-wall-street-crash-column/2898448001/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-economy-will-survive-the-coronavirus-11586103392 Join the conversation

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