Capitalism Has Failed in Fighting Coronavirus
The problem of policies aimed to return the economy to what it was before the virus hit is this: Global capitalism, by 2019, was itself a major cause of the collapse in 2020.
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Services Sector Falls Off Cliff: First Data Points from the Eurozone Where Lockdowns Started Earlier
Early data from Europe says the damage to the services sector is as deep as many feared, and bodes ill for the US, with its poor and sluggish economic responses.
Read more...The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model
COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.
Read more...Coronavirus, Control, Irritability, and Guilt
A coronavirus confessional of sorts.
Read more...Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.
Read more...Why Can’t Everyone in This Country Get Free COVID-19 Treatment?
The US is well into the Covid-19 crisis, yet most citizens are at risk of big bills if they seek testing and care.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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