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Covid-19

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: Should States Be Allowed to File for Bankruptcy? A Reading List

ProMarket writers
States are facing massive shortfalls due to the coronavirus outbreak. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested letting states file for bankruptcy. Puerto Rico...
Covid-19

The Paycheck Protection Program, Meant to Prevent Mass Layoffs, Missed Its Target

Joao Granja
A new study shows that CARES Act funds to support small companies and prevent mass layoffs did not flow to areas more adversely affected...
Antitrust and Competition

Political Economy of Covid-19: Surveillance and the Future of Privacy

ProMarket writers
Join the Stigler Center on Monday, May 11, for a conversation with The Markup’s editor-in-chief Julia Angwin and University of Chicago Law professor Lior Strahilevitz,...
Antitrust and Competition

Here’s How Covid-19 Is Boosting Monopolization and Market Power

Matt Stoller
Monopolization and consolidation can happen for what seem to be good, or least necessary, reasons. How we respond as a society depends on how...
Covid-19

Webinar: Covid-19 and the US Health Care System

ProMarket writers
Political Economy of Covid-19 Series: Watch a Stigler Center conversation between author, journalist, and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter and Chicago Booth professor Neale...
Covid-19

How Are Americans Coping With the Covid-19 Crisis? 7 Key Findings From a Household Survey

Marianne Bertrand
New research from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that lower-income Americans, especially women, were more...
Covid-19

Debt Monetization and Lessons from War Financing to Deal With Pandemics: A Webinar With Harold James

ProMarket writers
Princeton professors Markus Brunnermeier and historian Harold James discuss how much new debt governments will pile up in reaction to the Covid-19 economic fallout....
Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Fracking, Private Equity, and Hospitals

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  From the wonderful Barry Ritholtz....
Covid-19

Piketty on the Covid-19 Crisis: “It Is High Time to Use This Opportunity to Counter the Dominant Ideology and Significantly Reduce Inequality”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Thomas Piketty speaks about his new book, the role of ideology as a driver of inequality, and what the...
Covid-19

Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Renée Adams
Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer takes...
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