David Kotok
Economist ▫ Investor ▫ Author ▫ Fisherman
David Kotok experienced a lifetime of professional work in economics, finance, and investments. He has written countless commentaries on a vast array of topics and authored or co-authored 5 books and 3 pamphlets. He is the founder and organizer of an annual fishing retreat, affectionately known as “Camp Kotok”, a gathering of authors, economists, financial luminaries, heads of research, political figures, pundits, traders, wealth managers, and others who engage in candid discussions and exchange ideas in an informal setting.
David’s 5th book is now available!
David’s 5th book, The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks, is available in hardback, paperback, and all e-book formats. Co-authored with Michael R. Englund, Tristan J. Erwin, and Elizabeth J. Sweet, the book examines the Fed’s journey toward understanding and mitigating pandemic economic shocks, offers insights regarding pandemics’ economic impacts through history along with lessons from the world’s experience with Covid, and captures the Covid pandemic’s economic impacts in charts. Every pandemic is an initial shock and then a longer shadow cast over the medium term into the future. Most importantly, in the authors’ view, every pandemic is a learning opportunity that can be seized to better inform responses to future pandemics.
The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks is available at Amazon and at Barnes & Noble. Click the ORDER THE BOOK button at left to order or read a sample.
Recent Posts
- Putin — Putler? Readers Respond
Headlines hit with the frequency of missiles. Russia’s war against Ukraine grinds on despite the Trump administration’s efforts at obtaining a peace favorable to Russia’s interests. Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least eight people, wounding… Read more: Putin — Putler? Readers Respond - Putin — Or Is It Putler?
Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War, offered this assessment of Putin’s motives and US blind spots in an April 15 opinion piece published… Read more: Putin — Or Is It Putler? - Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets
Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets I spoke recently with Johannes Werner of WSLR+Fogartyville 96.5, a listener-supported nonprofit radio station serving Florida’s west coast, where I live. In the interview, we discussed tariff impacts and, as stocks have fallen,… Read more: Tough Times Ahead for County, City Budgets
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