Category: Plagues

  • Our New Book Is Official

    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”…

  • 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?”…