Kerman is joins us live from kaiser in South San Francisco and dan is it too late to protect your self against the flu. It literally takes a matter of seconds but doctors say it can protect you all winter long of course we are talking about the flu vaccine and doctors say if you havent had the flu shot yet, now is a great time. Usually flu becomes much more widesperead around christmas and then carries on into january february and march. Thursday afternoon there was a steady of stream of people dropping by the flu clinic at kaiser in santa clara its been a while since ive gotten it, i used to get it as a kid and then last year i got the flu twice in 6 months and i thought this year i am going to get the flu shot so im hoping it does the trick. Doctors say early indications suggest the vaccine is a good match for the flu strains that are circulating this season studies show the flu vaccine reduces the risk of getting the flu by between 50 and 60 . And is recommended everyone 6 months an
(This post completes my three‐part discussion of the “regime uncertainty” hypothesis, according to which the
New Deal hampered recovery by causing businessmen to fear policy changes that might render their investments unprofitable. Links to the previous posts about regime uncertainty, and to the other posts of my series on The New Deal and Recovery
, occur at the end of this post.)
Proving It
Nothing seems more plausible, on its face, than the claim that policy shocks like those we’ve surveyed, coming as they did from a president who was often openly hostile to businessmen, discouraged investment. It’s no doubt largely owing to this, and to businessmen’s own insistence that New Deal policies frightened them, that the regime uncertainty hypothesis has gained adherents among economists.