Morning Jolt: A Pep Talk for America

On the menu today: a pep talk as America enters scary times in the era of coronavirus, why there isn't a "moral hazard" factor in the discussions about helping businesses right now, what the coronavirus illuminates about illegal immigration, and the Sanders socialist revolution "berns" out.

We Will Get Through the Coronavirus. We Get Through Most Everything.

We're living through history. Italy's more or less locked down completely, colleges are moving the rest of the semester online, candidates are canceling political rallies, schools are closing for several weeks around the world, Washington State is enacting prohibitions on large gatherings, and the NCAA is contemplating March Madness with no fans in the stands.

This is a scary time. But we've lived through scary times before.

Heck, the Great Recession was only twelve years ago — or ten or eleven, depending on how you define its endpoint. It seemed like every time you turned around, some other company was going under, and there were tons of empty ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 11 2020 WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 11 2020 A Pep Talk for America On the menu today: a pep talk as America enters scary times in the era of coronavirus, why there isn't a "moral hazard" factor in the discussions about helping businesses right now, what the coronavirus illuminates about illegal immigration, and the Sanders socialist revolution "berns" out. We Will Get Through the Coronavirus. We Get Through Most Everything. We're living through history. Italy's more or less locked down completely, colleges are moving the rest of the semester online, candidates are canceling political rallies, schools are closing for several weeks around the world, Washington State is enacting prohibitions on large gatherings, and the NCAA is contemplating March Madness with no fans in the stands. This is a scary time. But we've lived through scary times before. Heck, the Great Recession was only twelve years ago — or ten or eleven, depending on how you define its endpoint. It seemed like every time you turned around, some other company was going under, and there were tons of empty ...   READ MORE

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