Coronavirus
How to Interpret Financial Market Movements to Predict the Impact of Coronavirus on GDP
Equity markets in the EU and US dropped by as much as 30 percent, which means that investors have revised downward their estimate of...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Warnings Unheeded, Stock Selling, and the Chinese Cover-Up
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...
“This Crisis Is Different: the Coronavirus Is a Social Disease Which We Need to Tackle as a Community”
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...
The Electoral Effect of the Virus: How the Coronavirus Is Impacting Democratic Primaries
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....
The Virus Outbreak Changed the Democratic Primaries: Sanders Is Running on Borrowed Time
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....
What the European Union Can Do to Overcome Liquidity Shortages for Firms
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...
Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
Five Conditions for Corporations About to Receive Coronavirus Bailouts
Wall Street and the Federal Reserve are getting ready for massive bailouts, so here are the conditions to put on large corporations who need...
This Is Not the Time to Be Cautious. We Need to Contain the Economic Contagion of the Coronavirus
The real danger is that the virus mutates and infects our economic system, even as we manage to root it out of our bodies....
Many Republicans Are Skeptical About Coronavirus. Research Suggests That Republican Politicians Could Change That
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is skeptical of climate change, supports teaching creationism in public schools, and opposes stem cell research. That's exactly why...
