Some Notes on Social Distancing

Some Notes on Social Distancing

By Ian Olasov A pause in economic activity has a way of bringing the whole economic system into focus. We need to work to pay the rent, and the landlords need the rent to pay their mortgages, and the banks need mortgage payments to pay their debtors, to make new...

New York Needs a Wealth Tax

The proposal of a new tax is typically met with indifference, outrage, or something in between. So it is perhaps surprising that, in the national press, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren have both recently won wide praise from liberals and leftists by...