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Income Inequality

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

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

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...
Income Inequality

Inequality Has Increased Far Less Than You Think (If You Consider Social Security Benefits)

Sylvain Catherine
In the United States, Social Security accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total wealth of the bottom 90 percent. Once Social Security is...
Antitrust and Competition

The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don’t

Matt Stoller
According to the 18th-century French banker and philosopher Richard Cantillon, who benefits when the state prints money is based on its institutional setup. In...
Covid-19

Deaths of Despair and Covid-19: a Webinar With Angus Deaton and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Deaths of despair are a slow disintegration of working-class lives: Will the coronavirus accelerate this process? In a conversion with Luigi Zingales, Nobel laureate...
Covid-19

The World After Covid-19: Inequality Within Rich Countries Will Increase, Globalization Will Reverse, Politics Will Remain Turbulent

Branko Milanovic
The negative effects of the crisis on growth will be very strong. But it will not affect everyone in the same way. If the...
Antitrust and Competition

How Private Equity Companies Are Lobbying to Profit from The Covid-19 Economic Fallout

Matt Stoller
Private equity funds aren’t just seeking to save the investments they already have, but to get access to more capital to invest in a...
Covid-19

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Asher Schechter
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
Covid-19

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Will Affect Four Types of Labor

Branko Milanovic
A tremendous shock like that of the coronavirus totally unbalances new demand for four different types of labor. The category policymakers should be...
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