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Veronique de Rugy

Alberto Alesina and austerity’s influence
05/30/2020 - 12:45pm
Veronique de Rugy
ECONOMICS: May 28, 2020 The world has lost a great economist. Alberto Alesina suddenly passed away from cardiac arrest while on a walk with his wife on May 23. He was 63. A prolific researcher, his voice will be missed in the coming years, as we must yet again debate the merits of austerity in the aftermath of COVID-19-inspired, all-out spending. FOR THE few last decades, Harvard University...
A dollar by any other name would spend the same
Veronique de Rugy 05/25/2020 - 4:51pm
CHARITY: May 21, 2020 One of the new ways critics like to slice and dice rich people these days is to question the value they provide to others by minimizing the importance of their charitable giving. For instance, the top 20 richest people in America gave a cumulative $8.7 billion to charity in 2018, but we are told that this sum is only 0.8% of...
Turning 50 in a time of pandemic
Veronique de Rugy 05/15/2020 - 7:04pm
PERSONAL NOTE: May 14, 2020 It was going to be the party of the year: my 50th birthday. I rented a fantastic place, picked a great menu and sent funny invitations designed by my hilarious friend Brooke. I was counting down the weeks. Then COVID-19 hit. Lockdowns were ordered. No party for me. Yet what replaced it was the purest expression of the...
Coronavirus blame game continues to spread
Veronique de Rugy 05/08/2020 - 3:19pm
CHINA: May 7, 2020 The coronavirus did apparently originate in China. Now President Donald Trump wants to punish that country for its role in letting the virus spread to the United States. This is just another poor excuse to push the same protectionist policies he has always favored. It’s also a way for him to deflect responsibility for the...
Economics, a San Francisco treat?
Veronique de Rugy 05/04/2020 - 7:42pm
ECONOMY: April 30, 2020 Have you ever wondered why it seems like some places have a high concentration of elected officials with little to no economic knowledge whatsoever? I have. While I don’t have a solution for this deficiency, I’d like to highlight one city in particular where this seems to be the case: San Francisco. THE COVID-...
We need a new Base Realignment and Closure Commission - not a new bureaucracy
Veronique de Rugy 04/24/2020 - 12:42pm
ECONOMY: April 23, 2020 In times of crisis like the one we are now going through, calls to grow an already-bloated bureaucracy abound. Whether it’s through more centralization, more powers to the federal government or the creation of new bureaucracy to address the pandemic, the hope is that next time around, a new arrangement will allow for...
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