Airlines: Bleeding from Coronavirus, and Worse to Come
Coronavirus carnage continues, particularly at bankruptcy-prone airlines.
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Coronavirus: Kids About as Likely as Adults to Become Infected; What Happens When School Closures Become Widespread?
Coronavirus is already causing large-scale school closures abroad; what happens when that becomes the new normal in the US?
Read more...Banks and Landlords Have To Pick Up the Costs of the Pandemic To Come to Forestall a Depression
Why banks and landlords (and the health care industry) need to pay their share of coronavirus costs.
Read more...Brexit: Pawing and Snorting
In theory, Brexit negotiations are moving forward, but they sure don’t look like it.
Read more...Coronavirus: Bracing for the Economic Shockwave
The coronavirus spread is setting up a nasty real economy-financial system contraction.
Read more...Coronavirus Collateral Damage: How a Case in Korea Hit a Small Business in the US
How coronavirus is causing some US businesses headaches, and potentially distress
Read more...The Race to Slash ‘Red Tape’ in Post-Brexit Britain Has Begun. How Can It Be Resisted?
Brexit is being used to accelerate the neoliberal race to the bottom.
Read more...3 Energy Sectors Most Threatened by the Coronavirus
The coronavirus has already whacked energy prices. But which products are particularly vulnerable?
Read more...Coronavirus: Panic Starting
The rapid spread of coronavirus in Italy has finally focused Mr. Market’s mind, as well as that of officials in Europe.
Read more...Taxcast: Financial Secrecy Index: Who Are the World’s Worst Offenders?
Taxcast – the Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast: 30 minutes of unmissable corruption, scandal and analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.
Read more...HSBC Announces Mass Job Cuts, Huge Write-Down, Asset Sales, Halt of Share Buybacks. Warns of Coronavirus Impact on Credit Losses & Revenues in China & Hong Kong
Once storied, now sprawling TBTF HSBC has started a big retrenchment in the face of mounting business woes. Is it the canary in the coal mine?
Read more...Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition
We have already surpassed the known limits to growth, so degrowth is our only option.
Read more...Most Long-Term Growth Forecasts by Economics Researchers Biased Upwards
Forecasts tend to be biased upwards and involve significant uncertainty, even for economics researchers specialising in macroeconomics or economic growth.
Read more...400 Million Locked Down in China To Fight Coronavirus
Another estimate of the severity and potential broader impact of the coronavirus.
Read more...Sanders Called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘Biggest Corporate Socialist’ – Here’s Why He Has a Point
As Sanders becomes a formidable 2020 contender, demonizing socialism is back in style.
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