On the new Remnant, Jonah talks with James Pethokoukis, a fellow at AEI, about how markets are reacting to coronavirus and what the recovery might look like. (V-shaped? U-shaped? Nike swoosh-shaped?) As a result of their isolation-based hallucinations, they also get particularly animated in the rank punditry and pop culture portions - so don’t miss out on their hottest Star Trek takes, or Jim’s shocking defense of the finales of Lost and Battlestar Galactica.
Show Notes:
-Jim’s podcast, Political Economy
-Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!)
-AOC’s late-stage capitalism tweet
-Trump’s “Opening Our Country Council”
-Bill Bennett saying that coronavirus isn’t a pandemic
-Some craziness from Claremont
-James’ column: is this really a black swan?
-Pale Rider, about the 1918 flu
-Star Trek’s transporter is a copy-kill-paste machine
-Bound by Oath, a podcast by the Institute for Justice
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