Plus Medicare for All (who have coronavirus), and voting remotely in Congress. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 19, 2020.
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Watch: Concentrated Power and Coronavirus
The Prospect and American Economic Liberties Project host a conversation with Rep. Mark Pocan
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Crisis in Financial Markets Began Before COVID-19
The Federal Reserve has been committing hundreds of billions to short-term lending markets for months. It’s time to make that power work for more than just Wall Street.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Three Ways to Look at a Bailout
Plus a ground report from a hospital. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 18, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s Time to Nationalize the Airlines
America’s most consumer-abusing and environment-degrading industry wants us to bail it out. Instead, we should take it over.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Coming Division of Societies Into Stay-at-Home and Safe-to-Work Populations
We need to start thinking about how we get out of today’s social and economic shutdown.
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Ancillary Casualties, Part I: Exit Polling
Today on TAP: The novel coronavirus cancels polling in today’s primary states
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Financial Engineering Deepens the Corona Depression
Wall Street scams and schemes that the Dodd-Frank Act intended to kill rose from the dead after 2010. Now they are killing what’s left of the economy—again.
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Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report, March 17, 2020
Election nightmares, supply chain resiliency, and the scene in Teaneck, New Jersey.