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Gregory C. Mason

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Economic principles apply to the pandemic

January 6, 2021 by Gregory Mason

Two weeks before Christmas, as a gift I needed to wrap and send a wooden kit for my nephew. Of course, the kit did not include the required glue … that was customer-supplied. No worries, I thought, I would just pick some up at the supermarket on my next grocery run; after all, it had a small home-improvement section and I recalled seeing glue there.

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Filed Under: Op Ed