Friday Hodgepodge

Notable Commentary for April, Part II

Continuing from last week...

Until recently, few of us would have regarded such a scene as the parade of triumphs that it is. (Image by Kayleigh Harrington, via Unsplash, license.)

"[T]he new coronavirus should not defeat our spirit -- if anything, it should spur us to redouble our efforts, both in the science and technology of medicine, and more broadly in the advance of industry." -- Jason Crawford, in "More Progress, Faster, Is Our Best Defense Against This Pandemic and Future Ones" at LeapsMag.

"I do think it is important that we look at how businesses can operate in a modified form." -- Amesh Adalja, in "From Grocery Store Trips to When the Coronavirus Lockdown Could End: What You Need to Know Today" (interview) at The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

"Affording the development of new antimicrobials requires the industry to able to achieve a return on investment." -- Amesh Adalja and Gregory Salmieri, in "Reframing the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis" at The Hill.

"It is high time that all of us abandon the term 'price gouging' and call it what it is: supply and demand." -- Raymond Niles, in "Anti-Gouging Laws Can Kill" at the American Institute for Economic Research.

"By helping to cut the dollar's tether to gold, Volcker helped Washington's politicians engage in perpetual fiscal profligacy, which he complained about without ever citing the source of the problem." -- Richard Salsman, in "Paul Volcker: Foe of the Gold Standard, Fan of Fiscal Profligacy" at the American Institute for Economic Research.

"[P]hysicians can work to reduce this cognitive bias by simply being aware that it exists." -- Paul Hsieh, in "If You're 80, Your Doctor Might Treat You Differently Than When You Were 79. Here's Why." at Forbes.

"Liberal 'green' bastion San Francisco has banned reusable grocery bags." -- Paul Hsieh, in "11 Bizarre Consequences of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic" at Forbes.

"It's better to think about these challenging issues now, while we still have time, than to wait until the crisis becomes overwhelming." -- Paul Hsieh, in "How Will Doctors Allocate Scarce Medical Resources During the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic?" at Forbes.

"[Gig workers] are so far from being Oliver Twist that they can afford their own smart phone and car." -- Ben Bayer, in "There's Nothing Exploitative About the Gig Economy" at The Orange County Register.

"It is a back-handed 'endorsement' of market principles from the governor of New York, but we will take it." -- Raymond Niles, in "Governor Cuomo Endorses Price Gouging; Sign the Petition" at the American Institute for Economic Research.

"This call [for rising prices] is absolutely, positively not based on rising quantity of money." -- Keith Weiner, in "The Out Has Not Yet Begun to Fall" at SNB & CHF.

"The economic consequences of moderately restrictive policies have already been devastating, and the attempts to justify even more restrictive policies have played fast and loose with the evidence." -- Ben Bayer, in "No One Has Shown the Lockdown Is Less Ruinous Than the Virus" at Medium.

"Let's just consider what has brought us to the point that an illness -- about as dangerous as a very bad flu --- has brought our highly regulated medical sector to its knees." -- Gus Van Horn, in "National Coronavirus Meltdown Means No More Smug Jabs at California" at RealClear Markets.

-- CAV