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McLean: Leaders hid behind epidemiologists and market forces
“Leaders need to be leaders, and that means not hiding behind other people, and our leaders hid behind epidemiologists in the crisis, and they've hidden behind the gods of the market for the last number of decades, and refuse to do things like, say, maybe it do…”
McLean: Fed rate cuts consistently bail out big business over small firms
“Every time big business has gotten in trouble, the Fed has stepped in by lowering interest rates, and big business then can access, even failing big businesses, can access the capital markets on incredibly good terms. That's a luxury that isn't available to sm…”
McLean: Pandemic playbooks designed for influenza fail when applied to COVID-19
“If you had argued we should take the plan for influenza and applied it to COVID, you would have been wrong. Influenza is spread in schools. Schools are super spreaders, and kids did die during the 1918 flu. It's different. So you can't say that because we prep…”
McLean: Hospital Closures Stem from Government Incentives, Not Market Forces
“If who makes money is being dictated by government policy, But then you're saying that hospital closure should be dictated by a hospital's failure to make money. Well, wait, that's not the market. That's government incentives.”
McLean: E-commerce fads prove that conventional business wisdom frequently fails
“And so I think I would reiterate the importance of thinking for yourself and the importance of not believing the fad of the moment. Oh, another one, right? That we're all going to buy everything online from now on in and retail is dead. And that turned out not…”