benjamin cowen lubbock he is the director of the free market institute professor of economics at texas tech university as well as a senior fellow with the independent institute and in los angeles we crossed 2 by ian he is an independent economic and geopolitical analyst as well as a former commodities trader all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciating let's go to los angeles 1st here i said about my introduction i guess probably the most important question there is as we come out of this. pandemic and it's all going to be about the economy and it's everything we're going to think about for the next few months if not years is about recovery so infer a very simple question will it be a v a you or in hell go ahead well we've been in an l. shape depression since the 2008 financial crisis i mean only that true economic data on unemployment inflation g.d.p. and the like have been warped or hidden outright while the fed pumped up the stock market to give the appearance of a genuine economic recovery and we've been in a structural downturn

benjamin cowen lubbock he is the director of the free market institute professor of economics at texas tech university as well as a senior fellow with the independent institute and in los angeles we cross to blighty and he is an independent economic and geopolitical analyst as well as a former commodities trader all right gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated let's go to los angeles 1st here i said in my introduction i guess probably the most important question there is as we come out of this pandemic and it's all going to be. about the economy and it's everything we're going to think about for the next few months if not years is about recovery so infer a very simple question will it be a v a you or in hell go ahead well we've been in an l. shape depression since the 2008 financial crisis i mean only that true economic data on unemployment inflation g.d.p. and the like have been warped or hidden outright while the fed pumped up the stock market to give the appearance of a genuine economic recovery and we've been in a structural downturn

justin is the assistant professor for philosophy at texas tech university specializing political legal and moral philosophy. brandon is assistant professor at bowling green state university specializing in ethics and moral psychology and social philosophy. we will take audience questions online using #cato events. watching the event posted #so they can find it. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having a. >> great to be here. >> to be here briefly, what is grandstanding? >> the simplest bumper sticker description of grandstandin grandstanding, using the discussion of morality and public discourse as a vanity project with morality and justice and family values and tradition to draw attention to themselves to look like a moral paragon to think of morley in my end to care about the american factory worker to be something more detailed that's very simple that it has two parts the grand standards want a certain audience a referenced network to have them come to believe with moral properties recall this recognition desire and want to be recognized with certain moral qualities by cert

i visit texas tech university, healthier climate about things related to this.it is important to identify with younger people. one of the injustices they are seeing, let's think how voluntary cooperation might solve this. >> couldn't agree more. for a lot of young people when they look at escalating college costs, they blame the free market system. they don't realize the vast presence of tell grant and a panoply of grants for education have encouraged the universities to jack up their prices. we are not dealing with the free market. people say you have a right to food so help yourself to what you want, people then say instead of taking two cartons of milk i will take 30. what we don't realize when you show up at the counter will occur to the grocery guy, dinesh d'souza isn't paying for his groceries, why charge $2.40 for carton of milk, how about $30? what is happening is a rip off scheme is emerging, ripoff scheme in which i, the grocery store, complicit in robbing a third guy who has no say in this debate, the taxpayer. he is splitting the bill. the democrats

justin tosi is an assistant professor of philosophy at texas tech university, specializing in political, legal, and moral philosophy. brandon warmke and is assistant professor of philosophy at à and he specializes in ethics, moral psychology and social philosophy. we will be taking audience questions online using the hashtag "áuntran8á events". if you have a question for the authors whether watching this event via facebook, twitter, youtube or the cato institute website posted with the cato hashtag so the question queuing software can find it. justin, brandon, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> great to be here. >> to begin, briefly, what is "grandtanding"? >>. >> if you want the simplest bumper sticker description of "grandstanding", it's using discussion of morality or politics and public discourse as a vanity project. grand standards use discussions of morality, justice, talk of rights, family daggers to draw attention to themselves to make themselves look like moral paragons. they want others to think of them as morally enlightened or caring more about the poor or

. >> i teach at texas tech university and it's a much healthier climate of discussion out there all things related to this. i also think it's important to identify with young people and say where the injustices they're seeing are instead of dismissing them. instead say let's think about how voluntary cooperation solve this better than fake socialism. >> i couldn't agree more and for a lot of young people when they look at these escalating college costs they blame the free market system and they don't realize the vast presence of telegrams the whole panoply of government provisions encourage universities to jack up the prices. we are not dealing withthe free market . sometimes use analogy where if you're in a grocery store and people say you have a right to food so help yourself to whatever you want people would say instead of taking two cartons of milk i'll take 30 because there's no one to stop me filling up my car but when you show up at the counter it's going to occur to the grocery guys on the other side of the counter that dinesh isn't paying for his groceries, when we charge $30 in o

for me it was hearing from leadership at texas tech university health science centers and their program to provide 24 behavioral health intervention, and tell the behavioral health services at schools in rural west texas. school age children are primates identified and treat behavioral health issues before they worsen. i i believe this bill is even me important now. students have been away from school and friends during a difficult time and some may be getting with the loss of loved ones or being home with family, a difficult family situation. i hope we will advance this bill toward markup. other bills cover a wide range of important issues issue from approving the national suicide prevention hotline to extending the authorization for two movie services block. this bill will ensure stable high quality resources for those in need. one issue not addressed it is a mental health of the frontline healthcare worker. this is especially important now, and i believe this has long been a serious issue our healthcare system but has taken on added importance with the additional stress that caring f

reaction right now from the professor at texas tech university health sciences center, much much moreough all of this. what do you make right now of these findings that 93%, 94% of the fatalities we have seen of the cases that have gotten as extreme as we have seen are older folks? i would imagine a majority, but that's a lot. >> that is a lot. you know, i would say the main message for that from what i'm seeing with patients in the emergency room is even if you are younger and you don't have comorbidities, you don't want to get this. it's still pretty miserable. there are people reporting symptoms that last weeks and it's basically numbers, right. if you look, we have 330-ish million people in the united states and if this runs through and we say hey, only, you know, how many people are affected, elderly people are affected, we start letting our guard down. for this to get behind us and get herd immunity, the mathematical models are saying about 65% of people need to be infected. so let's do the math. 330 million in the united states, to reach that 65%, we are talking 200 million peo

we've got a darned good one, the professor at texas tech university health sciences, much much more,n't know who has the edge in this quest for a virus or treatment -- sorry, vaccine or treatment, but you increasingly hear from even the likes of dr. fauci that one could be in folks' hands by early next year, perhaps sooner. do you agree with that? >> i hope so. thank you for having me. i do hope so. i'm hopeful for this vaccine. i think it will be a big part of the solution in combination with many of the other behaviors and things we are doing to keep the virus at bay. i don't think it's personally going to be a panacea. i don't think people are going to just line up and do it in the beginning. just judging from human behavior and past behaviors with vaccines with patients i've seen, but i think the stuff we are following, are good and the fact we can do it quickly means we can do it without taking shortcuts, instead of doing steps in series, we are doing them in parallel. hopefully we speed up the process, keep the safety and can get this virus behind us. neil: you know, a number o

joining me now, tommy tubberville, former head football coach at texas tech, auburn, the university ofnnati. also running for u.s. senate in alabama. wonderful to have you here, sir. what is your position? you think they should play? >> there's no doubt, dana. we have to play football. i know this is serious. the virus is serious. i've had friends sick, in intensive care. i lost a friend. let me tell you for every one person that's been sick, 33 people in this country have been affected economically, socially. we put men on the moon. we have to put our kids in a school, keep them protected, be specially responsible but get back to school and get back to normal life. our kids are the ones that will be affected if we don't get back to playing football and sports and learning from each other. >> dana: you know, i know college football, not every school has a big endowment. many schools have a lot of money. football is a important part of the college experience. i wonder what you think, why didn't they think about this ahead of time and try to do something like the nba has done on a bubble

we have university of arizona robin warren, texas tech university president dr.his morning. full disclosure. if i could i would do this whole segment on the woke nature of campus and liberal bias and all of that. we're going to leave that aside right now 'cause i have my opinions and you have yours about your university and how you teach. this is about covid-19 and bringing students back to the classroom. at the university of arizona, what are you doing to ensure that students can come back and also be safe? >> well, pete, thanks for having us on this morning. we're trying to educate our students, our faculty, staff around simply wash your hands, cover your face, stay away from as many people as possible, and we're vigorously testing. we developed our own tests. we're using ppcr antigen testing a advantage-tech tracing program and have dorms available for isolation, over [unintelligible] room that we have for isolation. we think those three factors executed on those three things and follow the rules, we think we can have a successful and productive semester. pete

texas tech firing its women's basketball coach. what the universities are saying this morning. >>> crash investigation. mangled wreckage littering the runway after an air india plane overshoots its landing. the plane splitting in two. survivors telling their stories. >> hold onto that kid! >>> and dramatic rescues. strangers banding together to help a family trapped by rising floodwaters. >> stay there. come over slowly. >> how they got them to safety. one of the heros describing those harrowing moments this morning. go mning, america. we're going to start with the latest on the pandemic. as the world nears 20 million coronavirus cases, deaths here in the u.s. are increasing in 28 states and the puerto rico. hospitalizations are up in 27 states, d.c. and puerto rico. >> with the race on to develop a vaccine, a gallop poll finds 65% of americans would get the vaccine if it were fda approved and free. but more than a third of those polled said they would not. expert and advisory member board dr. paul offit joins us to discuss the importance of an effectiv