It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify “Reopening” the Economy

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It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify “Reopening” the Economy
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The White House apparently based its coronavirus plans on a “model” made by an economist mostly known for being wrong.

who otherwise spent much of his professional life churning out studies predicting that cutting corporate tax rates would lead to improbably huge wage gains for workers. The administration had apparently decided to justify its response to a plague based on the work of someone known above all for making hilariously overoptimistic predictions.

According to predictions from my "cubic model" fitted on yesterday's data, today's temperature is approaching absolute zero and we are all dead, mercifully.

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