Tag: Covid-19

Prof. Antony Davies: The Right Size of Government

October 7, 2021 | Video

$15 trillion dollars. That’s $15,000,000,000,000. It’s an unfathomable amount of money. As Professor of Economics Antony Davies says in our final installment of the COVID DISRUPTION SERIES, it’s enough money to buy everything in Spain.

And yet that’s how much the Congressional Budgeting Office estimates Covid-19 measures will cost the U.S. government over the next five years. In light of such an abuse of power from the federal government, it’s worth revisiting one of Covid’s enduring lessons: that small, local governments are quicker, more precise, and more efficient than large, national ones.

Will Cinema Theaters Survive The Pandemic?

July 2, 2021 | Video

Few businesses have been so impacted by the pandemic as cinemas and movie theaters. Think about the last time you watched a movie in a room filled with people; this is an image from a distant past, and although things are getting back to normal, the movie industry has been affected in a way not seen before.

5 True Lockdown Stories

May 25, 2021 | Video

Five people share their true stories. We interviewed 5 people about their experiences of being under lockdown in Brazil, Nigeria, Greece, India, and the United States. This video tells some of their stories and ideas of how extreme measures have been used by governments everywhere to contain the pandemic – and how much it has […]