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For readers who don't already know this, my new blog is over at Substack:scottsumner.substack.comThis will be my final Money Illusion post. The blog began on February 2, 2009. But the events that led to the blog took place in late 2008. Indeed my life can be divided into two segments, before and after September 16…

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US unprepared for an electrical grid collapse, but it costs only $300M

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I was shocked to learn that the US had no plan to deal with a pandemic, and had not even done basic things like stockpile enough surgical masks or an adequate supply of testing equipment (or at least the ability to produce the testing equipment rapidly.) Some people say this is