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The way that epidemiologists strayed into the lane of designing cost effective NIP is the most egregious recent example of this.

I think the proper criticism of economists vis a vis he 2008 financial crisis is not that they failed to predict it, but that they failed to prescribe remedies.

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I don't understand* the saber rattling over Taiwan.

Maybe we can prevent an invasion via conventional means per your article here.

But let's say we can't. Can we not use nuclear weapons to prevent the Chinese from capturing Taiwan if it really came to that?

So what exactly are we afraid of China doing? Why are we ratcheting up the rhetoric of regime change in China, launching trade wars, and everyone is talking about spending a bunch of money on defense and industrial policy?

I don't really get it, I'm just being honest here. The only thing the Chinese are threatening to do to me is sell me a cheap EV.

*I "get it" as a matter of domestic politics and special interests, but I don't get it as a matter of national interest.

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