society – The Suburban Redoubt

Disunion, Union, Preachers and Doers

A Gray Man — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:03:41 +0000

Only dead fish follow the stream -old Scandinavian expresion It has been a while since my last post but I have been pretty distracted, I must admit. In this post I focus on some psychological lessons I have learned watching the past couple of weeks. This are lessons I already knew but the past few …

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Decoupling

A Gray Man — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:58:14 +0000

These articles and others like them that have been making the rounds have been spinning around my head in recent weeks: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/cheap-manufacturing-be-damned-sentiment-builds-for-moving-u-s-companies-out-of-china In short, decoupling basically means in practice a shift away from international supply chains. These chains emerged in part because outsourcing to foreign nations has some advantages: cost savings, technology transfer, etc. But …

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Covid-19 and society

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:18:24 +0000

This evening the local news had a special on covid-19. An economist opined that this could cause a recession. On the other hand, if there was some good news, such as a fall in cases in Italy, it could rally people’s spirits and make them think everything was going to be alright. I got stuck …

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