Plus Trump’s potential reversal on social distancing, and Nancy Pelosi’s big swing. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 24, 2020.
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Posted inCoronavirus
The End of American Exceptionalism
The word means different things to different people—but it’s gone.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Even Free-Marketeers Should Support Central Planning in a Pandemic
The very arguments Friedrich Hayek used against central planning now work in favor of it.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Immigrant Detention During COVID-19 Is a Worsening Nightmare
A Cameroonian woman’s story shows how COVID-19 is poised to devastate asylum seekers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fund the Front Lines
Despite more than a decade of underfunding public health and safety, those workers have stepped up to meet the crisis. Government must help them with emergency and long-term support.
Posted inTAP
V Is for Very Unlikely
Today on TAP: Goldman Sachs’s prediction for economic recovery is far too optimistic
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: The Dangerous Life of an Amazon Worker
Plus, the border between Washington and Idaho. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 23, 2020.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mind the Trust Gap
The story of scarce face masks during a pandemic points to a greater failing: Government has placed corporate greed above the public good.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Solidarity Economics—for the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond
In the long term, not just in the current emergency, mutuality matters—not only morally but economically, too.
