Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security
UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...Delaying emergency measures in emerging and developing economies will lead to unimaginable health and social impacts which will come back to haunt us for decades. The G20 must act now.
Read more...As the world struggles with the pandemic, Boeing should be seen as the vector for a parallel epidemic. It’s Patient Zero in an epidemic of corporate failure. As we change the way we live our lives, corporations like Boeing should change the way they are run. Corporate mismanagement made this crisis worse and, if it doesn’t change, will make the recovery more difficult.
Read more...Another sign that America has gone banana republic: Brady Bonds, used in the Latin American debt crisis, would be suitable medicine for our corporate debt hangover.
Read more...Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..
Read more...The U.S. shale oil industry had considerable problems before Saudi Arabia and Russia launched their oil price war. What comes next?
Read more...Granting “orphan” drug status to Gilead Sciences for remdesivir, its potential coronavirus treatment, is a massive boon to the company.
Read more...Jamie Galbraith describes what government needs to do to keep hospitals and the real economy functoning during the coronavirus crisis.
Read more...If the public is to be asked to give bailouts to businesses, it should get something back for its money. It needs to share in any upside.
Read more...Republicans have tabled a corporate bailout plan to calm markets. Can Bernie Sanders and others redirect the stimulus to reflate the economy?
Read more...The bailout bill looks shameless, even by Trump Administration standards.
Read more...An epidemiloigist looks at Covid-19 data.
Read more...The COVID-19 specter led Congresscritters to coo reassurance, and dump shares. A modest proposal: require immediate disclosure of trades.
Read more...In the face of massive economic calamity caused by coronavirus, Michael Hudson argues a debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression.
Read more...Contingency planning for emergency hospitals.
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