Covid-19 Recessions: This Time It’s Really Different
Why Covid-19 damage will be lasting.
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Michael Hudson: Fed’s $10 Trillion Defends Assets of the Rich
Michael Hudson gives a detailed, if sobering, account of the outlook for the economy.
Read more...Why Did Covid-19 Spiral Out of Control?
Some Covid-19 sleuthing.
Read more...New Poll Says a Majority of Americans Would Privilege Slowing the Spread of COVID-19 Over Restarting the Economy (Despite the Relentless Assault of Get Back to Work, Slackers! Propaganda)
New ABC-Washington Post poll shows a majority favor halting the spread of COVID-19 over restarting the economy – despite the propaganda blitz.
Read more...Why Americans Are Tiring of Social Distancing and Hand-Washing – 2 Behavioral Scientists Explain
Most people are not neurotic enough to maintain disiplines like social distancing over long periods of time.
Read more...COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Read more...Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...Nature Pimps for Fundamentally Flawed Gates-Funded “Swab Yourself” Covid-19 Test
An ambitious Bill Gates funded Covid-19 testing program called SCAN suffers from the health care version of “assume a can opener”.
Read more...Coronavirus Dashboard: Updating the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Parsing some US coronavirus data.
Read more...Wall Street’s Useful Idiot: Financial Times Shills for CLOs….as Fed Hasn’t Bailed Them Out
A major story on the CLOs chooses not to address the key questions.
Read more...Is EIA Data Disguising A Disastrous Decline In U.S. Shale?
Tallying some of the recent shale production cuts.
Read more...The Wealth Effects of Bailouts: A Quantitative Assessment
Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs Runs Propaganda from Swedish Employers on Sweden’s Covid-19 Fiasco, Failing to Disclose Sponsorship and Misrepresenting Results
Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
Read more...Testing and the State Petri Dishes of Democracy
Looking at state (non) progress on Covid-19.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Big Business Takes Cash as Workers Laid Off, States and Cities Go Bust
Tom Ferguson and Paul Jay discuss how Democrats and Republicans distaste for accountability by finance and big corporations is playing out in the coronacrisis
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