The Worst Is Yet To Come for Oil Prices
Collaping oil prices demonstrate the severity of the fall in real economy activity.
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Mutual Aid Volunteers Are Mobilizing to Help the Most Vulnerable Communities to Deal With Coronavirus
How the DSA and other groups are providing coronavirus relief.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler Special: The Nation CANCELLED Over Tara Reade Coverage
To assert that there is “no evidence” of Ms. Reade’s allegation against Mr. Biden denies Ms. Reade’s agency as a human being
Read more...Trump Tweet: Will Issue Executive Order Temporarily Suspending All Immigration into the United States
Last night Trump tweeted his intention to issue an executive order temporarily suspending all legal immigration into the United States.
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Replacing Workers Has Many Costs
Companies remains short-sighted about the cost of ditching workers.
Read more...‘Incrementalism Is Not Helpful in This Moment’: Ocasio-Cortez Rejects Settling for Crumbs in Next Covid-19 Stimulus
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the U.S. cannot afford another incremental stmulus bill that shovels massive bailouts to big businesses alone.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 4/20/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Let’s make Monday, Fun Day!
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Wolf Richter: Coronavirus Drives Barrage of New Lobbying Activity
Follow the money – Congressional lobbying activity and who wins and who loses from coronavirus relief.
Read more...Who Benefits When the Price of Insulin Soars?
Contrary to pharmaceutical company claims, revenue from high insulin prices are going to shareholders, not R&D
Read more...Links 4/19/2020
Oil, Gas, Petrochemical Financial Woes Predate Pandemic — And Will Continue After, Despite Bailouts, Report Finds
Problems with the oil, gas, and petrchemical industries predate the COVID-19 pandemic – and now will be even more difficult to rseolve.
Read more...How COVID-19 Showed America’s Dependence on Blue-Collar Workers
The outbreak of “hero” talk is a long-overdue admission that blue-collar workers are the backbone of the US economy. Time to pay them more.
Read more...A Payments Holiday is More Realistic Than You Think
It may be simpler to enact a payments holiday than to try to get money to the hands of individuals who desperately need it.
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