The Prospect and American Economic Liberties Project host a conversation with Rep. Mark Pocan
coronavirus
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.
Posted inTAP
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.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report, March 17, 2020
Election nightmares, supply chain resiliency, and the scene in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Posted inCoronavirus
How U.S. Sanctions Intensify the Spread of the Coronavirus in Iran
The global pandemic has killed hundreds in Iran, and economic sanctions are aggravating shortages in a country where scarcity is the norm.
