Prisons and the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Must Be Done NOW to Prevent Catastrophe
Interview with prison expert Michele Deitch about what can be done to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in prisons: NOW!
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A View From The Front Lines Of California’s COVID-19 Battle
California braces for the COVID-19 storm.
Read more...The Coming Fiscal Crisis Of State And Local Governments
State and local governments will soon be in a world of hurt.
Read more...IMF Refuses Aid to Venezuela in the Midst of the Coronavirus Crisis
The IMF dons its enforcement brass knuckles.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/18/2020
Today’s Water Cooler:
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Debt and Financial Crises: Will History Repeat Itself?
Unhappy families may all be different, but financial crises are pretty much the same, rooted in debt overhangs, and one has been brewing.
Read more...Triggering a Global Financial Crisis: Covid-19 as the Last Straw
An ambitious deleveraging plan as a Covid-19 response.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates coming fast now, so I […]
Read more...Closing Polling Places Is the 21st Century’s Version of a Poll Tax
Voter disenfranchisement via shuttering polling sites.
Read more...Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Germany’s long-standing practice of muscling the European Union to serve its own ends now risks dissolution and a banking system crisis.
Read more...Brexit: The ‘Australian Option’?
Boris Johnson fancies that the UK’s future lies with the US. Good luck with that.
Read more...Why Sanctions Against Iran and Venezuela During a Pandemic Are Cruel
A moral and practical case against continuing economic sanctions during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more...Social Insurance in a Time of Pandemic: A Proposal for the Government to Act as Buyer of Last Resort
It’s not hard operationally for the government to counter economic fallout from the pandemic. The hard part is ideological baggage.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/16/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: National poll, voting during #COVID-19, exit polls vs. computer calculated results, manufacturing, housing, China sends #COVID-19 materiel, retail food, esports, copper, testing the Utah Jazz, 1619 Project controversy, sabotaging techniques in business, Ecstasy, Wodehouse
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