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.
Read more...The UN feels compelled to weigh in on the less-than-sunny economic outlook.
Read more...Coronavirus-generated suspensions of testing throws a monkey wrench into the charter school agenda.
Read more...Will the US get serious about getting more ventilators?
Read more...Interview with prison expert Michele Deitch about what can be done to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in prisons: NOW!
Read more...California braces for the COVID-19 storm.
Read more...State and local governments will soon be in a world of hurt.
Read more...The IMF dons its enforcement brass knuckles.
Read more...a line has been drawn around political process, cameras have been pointed at it, and we’ve been taught that it’s something for us to watch from afar, a hobby to buy into, or not.
Read more...Why the Republicans’ planned coronavirus bazooka isn’t big enough.
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