Dealing with the Second Wave: Subsidies, Instead of Ordering Closures
Could officials use carrots rather than a stick to induce short-term closures of high risk businesses like restaurants?
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Bloomberg Warns: A Covid Vaccine Could Help the Virus Spread
And just when you started to think an effective Covid vaccine would fix everything….
Read more...Matt Taibbi: A Dangerous Moment for the Democratic Party
Matt Taibbi describes why the Democrats are likely to draw all the wrong lessons from their shabby 2020 results.
Read more...The Super Cold Covid Vaccine Distribution Problem
The more you look at Pfizer’s vaccine, the more you have to think they really really needed that first mover advantage.
Read more...Quick Comments on the Biden-Harris Covid Plan: Not Much Sizzle and No Steak
The Biden transition team has abandoned most of the Biden campaign Covid promises, particuarly the ones that cost money.
Read more...The Collateral Damage to Children’s Education During Lockdown
High-quality before and after tests in the Netherlands suggest at-home lockdown education was a complete bust for primary school kids.
Read more...Jobs Picture Emerges of Weird Recovery to Historically Awful Level
Jobs not galore. And the target keeps moving.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Financialization and Deindustrialization
Michael Hudson on how Trump’s policies have not addressed the fundamental forces that gutted industrial jobs under the both parties
Read more...How Covid-19 Is Increasing Support for Social Spending
Quelle surprise! Americans want better social safety nets, particularly now with the Covid wolf at the door.
Read more...The Other Eviction Moratorium: Storefront and Office Tenants are Hanging on. But for How Long?
New York City’s struggle between commercial landlords and their tenants over rents owed versus lousy recovery prospects reveals a lot about perverse incentives.
Read more...McKinsey, Deloitte Charge Big Bucks to States for Botched Covid Projects
McKinsey and some other big consulting names are taking advantage of Covid-overwhelmed state governments.
Read more...One Trump Voter Explains Why Trump Will Win
An astute Trump backer argues that Trump is closer to a win that you think.
Read more...Indian Pharma is Being Squeezed – and It’s Bad News for Drug Access in Developing Countries
The role of Indian pharma in ensuring access to low-cost drugs is important during the age of COVID-19, and not only for developing counries.
Read more...How Donald Trump Is Putting American Workers at Risk
A partial catalogue of how Trump has left worers high and dry.
Read more...Don’t Look Down! Estimating the Depth of State Covid Budget Holes
The not-pretty picture of Covid impact on state and local governments.
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