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...The news on the EU and UK fronts is less than promising. It looks good only compared to rampaging cops on this side of the pond.
Read more...Most people are not neurotic enough to maintain disiplines like social distancing over long periods of time.
Read more...The pace of the wasteful fashion industry will slow as we learn to cope with COVID-19. Will sustainability become more than a buzzword?
Read more...This is part 7 of my ongoing coverage of the Federal Reserve’s Coronavirus actions.
Read more...Mauritius coped well with Covid-19 despite its tiny size and the importance of tourism.
Read more...The data on suicides and economic distress is more muddy than you’d expect.
Read more...Heiner Flassbeck shows it defies macroeconomic logic to promote surpluses for Germany, prohibit government deficits everywhere else and forbid the central bank from acting as the central bank of each Euro member.
Read more...Leaders of countries should consider what they must do to ensure we can drink the water in a world after we have learned to cope with coronavirus.
Read more...The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
Read more...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...Coronavirus mask defiers in all the wrong places.
Read more...An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...Past theories of crises and why they matter now.
Read more...Covid-19 meets the US military and the Pentagon yields.
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