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Covid-19

Antitrust and Competition

How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America

Matt Stoller
Big Business is going to be structuring the response to the pandemic, at least temporarily. A new generation of leaders and thinkers is not...
Covid-19

How Inequality Hurts the Economy and Complicates Policy Responses to the Pandemic

Atif Mian
In the years leading up to the pandemic, rising inequality created a saving glut of the rich which pushed down interest rates and fueled...
Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Ring Frauds, PPP, Restaurants and Steak Houses

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.  Warning! Self promotion alert. I did this...
Commentary

Congress Can Move Now to Stop Amazon’s Cloning Factory. Here’s How

Hal Singer
If there was any doubt that online marketplaces should be considered a separate market before the coronavirus wiped out brick-and-mortar retail, there should...
Covid-19

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: The Risk Of Reopening – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
Despite warnings from government and health officials, some states are choosing to begin reopening their economies this week by ending lockdown restrictions. In this...
Covid-19

Economic Crisis and Poverty Might Kill More People Than the Coronavirus

Daniel Matamala
Saving lives is the priority. Doing so depends on a delicate balance between health, economic, and social variables. But, above all, it depends on a population that trusts that these measures seek the common good, not the interest of a few.
Covid-19

“Stop Looking for a Post-Covid Intellectual, We Have Found One”: Le Point Profiles Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Writer and entrepreneur Mathieu Laine wrote an extensive profile of Luigi Zingales for the French magazine Le Point. They discussed the pandemic, the nature...
Covid-19

How to Save 40 percent of the Payroll Protection Program’s Costs

Joost Sijthoff
Thanks to the loan program part of the CARES Act, small businesses can receive up to 2.5 times their monthly payroll, regardless of how much...
Covid-19

The Hidden Risks of Stimulus Packages: Federal Debt Is Not a Problem – Until It Is

Ivo Welch
Most economists agree that some stimulus bill to mitigate the effect of the pandemic was a necessary evil (although they argue about how good the...
Covid-19

Back to Work? The Political Preparation for “Phase 2” of the Pandemic Is a Matter of Trust

Efraim Benmelech 
According to a special wave of the Booth/Kellogg Financial Trust Index, Americans have bought into social distancing rules. However, most of the respondents are...
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