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Covid-19

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Warnings Unheeded, Stock Selling, and the Chinese Cover-Up

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.      I had an utterly irrational sliver of...
Covid-19

How Covid-19 Infected Global Financial Markets: a Webinar

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Torsten Slok, Chief Economist for Deutsche Bank Securities, discuss what happened during Wall Street's worst week since the 2008...
Covid-19

Virus-Enhanced Market Power: American Small Businesses Are Kept Hostages by Amazon

Shaoul Sussman
Amazon announced restrictions on the type of merchandise it will allow sellers and vendors to send into its warehouses because Amazon’s fulfillment services (FBA) has reached...
Covid-19

“This Crisis Is Different: the Coronavirus Is a Social Disease Which We Need to Tackle as a Community”

Christoph Gisiger
In an extensive interview, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan discusses the pandemic's impact on financial...
Covid-19

The Electoral Effect of the Virus: How the Coronavirus Is Impacting Democratic Primaries

Matt Motta
Compared to 2016, turnout was 22 percent higher (on average) for states voting on Super Tuesday, before Covid-19 emergency measures in the United States....
Covid-19

The Virus Outbreak Changed the Democratic Primaries: Sanders Is Running on Borrowed Time

David Lawsky
Joe Biden swept Florida, Illinois, and Arizona on Tuesday, jumping ahead to 1,173 of the 1,991 delegates he needs to win the presidential nomination....
Covid-19

What the European Union Can Do to Overcome Liquidity Shortages for Firms

Markus Brunnermeier
European institutions can mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus crisis: the European Investment Bank (EIB) can borrow from the European Central Bank (ECB) and...
Covid-19

Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19

Luigi Zingales
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
Covid-19

Populism Weakened the Immune System of Our Democracies. Chile Is an Example

Daniel Matamala
Modern societies have developed immune systems to deal with epidemics: international cooperation, social cohesion, universal health care systems. But today we face the greatest...
Antitrust and Competition

Five Conditions for Corporations About to Receive Coronavirus Bailouts

Matt Stoller
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are getting ready for massive bailouts, so here are the conditions to put on large corporations who need...
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