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Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest

Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms in New York City alone are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.

Newspaper Woes Intensify in Covid-19 Era: Widespread Job and Pay Cuts as Ad Revenues Fall

While you were busy worrying about coronavirus, the newspaper business took another body blow.

‘Downright Dangerous’: Trump Moves to End Federal Support for Testing Sites as US Sees Record Daily Spike in Covid-19 Infections

Trump administration moves to curtail COVID testing – on theory that if there’s no test showing the tree fell in the forest, it did not fall.

America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise

More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.

Massive Credit Losses to Hit European Banks in Q2 and into 2021, Particularly When Debt Moratoriums Are Lifted

Keeping tabs on the wobbly state of EU banks.

The Hidden Deaths Of The COVID Pandemic

Why the Covid-19 death toll is higher than you might think.

Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?

A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.

Grim Prospects for New York City as Few Office Workers Return Post Lockdown; How Hard Will Other US Cities Be Hit?

An update on getting back to normal (not) in New York City.

What Do Struggling Small Businesses Need Most? Time – and Bankruptcy Can Provide It

Can a leisurely bankruptcy process help small businesses?

Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right

vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.

The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out

Yves here. Richard Murphy’s observations about QE hitting its limits are clearly relevant to the US. Sadly, things will have to get worse before ideas like a job guarantee or Green New Deal-type work schemes even get a hearing. By Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and a political economist. He has been described by the Guardian […]

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Category Archives: Pandemic

Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest

Newspaper Woes Intensify in Covid-19 Era: Widespread Job and Pay Cuts as Ad Revenues Fall

‘Downright Dangerous’: Trump Moves to End Federal Support for Testing Sites as US Sees Record Daily Spike in Covid-19 Infections

America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise

Massive Credit Losses to Hit European Banks in Q2 and into 2021, Particularly When Debt Moratoriums Are Lifted

The Hidden Deaths Of The COVID Pandemic

Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?

Grim Prospects for New York City as Few Office Workers Return Post Lockdown; How Hard Will Other US Cities Be Hit?

What Do Struggling Small Businesses Need Most? Time – and Bankruptcy Can Provide It

Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right

The Bank of England Votes for More QE – But This Is a Road That Will Run Out

The Costs Of Safely Reopening A High-End Restaurant

Italy Once Again on the Eurozone Worry List

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