The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19
A detailed look at the Green Deal: bold goals, with a shortage of money, transition plans, and social democracy.
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The Coronavirus Depression Requires A New Approach to Budgeting
Coronavirus spending illustrates the foolishness of legislators believing their own numbers.
Read more...Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus
Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.
Read more...Coronavirus: More Wheels Coming Off
Some scattered but nevertheless telling signs of coronavirus impact.
Read more...The First Victims of the Oil Price War
Why Russia has the upper hand in the oil price war, and what that might mean for US shale players.
Read more...Local Covid-19 Report and Infection Modeling
More efforts to understand how efforts to contain Covid-19 might or might not be working.
Read more...Brace Yourselves: The US Is Setting Up a Ghastly “Natural Experiment”
The US may be about to be exceptional…in not a good way.
Read more...Four Ways You Can Take Caring Action Around Coronavirus – Even if You’re Overwhelmed
Some coronavirus coping and action strategies.
Read more...The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies
Why you should hate the coronavirus “stimulus” bill.
Read more...Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security
UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...Michael Hudson: A Brady Bond Solution for America’s Unpayable Corporate Debt
Another sign that America has gone banana republic: Brady Bonds, used in the Latin American debt crisis, would be suitable medicine for our corporate debt hangover.
Read more...Coronavirus Kayoes U.S. Recycling
Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..
Read more...How Far Will Trump Go To Save U.S. Shale
The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?
Read more...What the Government Needs to Do Next to Tackle the Crisis
Jamie Galbraith describes what government needs to do to keep hospitals and the real economy functoning during the coronavirus crisis.
Read more...Debt and Power: An Interview With Michael Hudson
Micheal Hudson explains how the ancient approach to managing debt is far superior to ours.
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