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Farley, Fishing, & Finnegan
Part 1 – A Second Farley Interview “When you’re making decisions in real time, you don’t have a full deck of cards, ever.” – DRK “We’re learning slowly, and when it comes to an epidemic, a pandemic or a plague, they don’t happen every week. They are a test of those who study history; and…
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Our New Book Is Official
We are live with our new book, The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks (https://www.thefedandtheflu.com).My co-authors and I have nearly five years invested in the effort. We appreciate the positive reviews the book has received so far. Here are two recent ones from independent reviewers: Kirkus calls The Fed and the Flu “A well-researched, engaging economic history of pandemics”…
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The Price of Eggs & Bird Flu
We thank readers for their feedback on the January 26 Sunday Kotok Report, “Trump 2.0 and Healthcare?” (https://kotokreport.com/trump-2-0-healthcare/). And, yes, the book — The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks — is finished and will be released on February 12. Details regarding preorders are updated at https://www.thefedandtheflu.com. Two recent reviews are out, at Kirkus Reviews and Readers’ Favorite. Flu…
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Camp Kotok – Judith Monroe from CDC Foundation & David Kotok explore Zika & other initiatives of CDC
Camp Kotok – Dr. Judy Monroe from the CDC Foundation discusses her role, Zika, Ebola, viruses and viral outbreaks, how they can do things governments can’t do, and more with David Kotok. This talk with Judith Monroe includes how the foundation helps fulfill and extend the CDC’s mission and challenges. How can you support the…
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A History Lesson?
David R. Kotok, October 27, 2024 (The following was first published on The Kotok Report website and via LISTSERV. For details, visit https://kotokreport.com/.) This Sunday’s missive is about geopolitical risk and what may be leading to a war. IMO, we already have a “proxy” war. Did we learn anything from the 1930s? Is history “rhyming?”…