The Shaky Logic Behind Hopes for a Quick Recovery

Ed Dolan
3 min readApr 16, 2020

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President Donald Trump promises that the economy will soar “like a rocket ship” as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic ends. Writing for the Independent Institute, R. David Ranson, like many who fear the government more than they fear the virus, agrees.

“We ought to be thankful that the economic system is resilient in a way that the human body is not,” Ranson says. He foresees a…

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Ed Dolan

Economist, Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, Yale Ph.D. Interests include environment, health care policy, social safety net, economic freedom.