Coronavirus
Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering
Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a closer takes...
How the Tension Between Big Business and Antitrust Will Reshape Post-Covid America
Big Business is going to be structuring the response to the pandemic, at least temporarily. A new generation of leaders and thinkers is not...
How Inequality Hurts the Economy and Complicates Policy Responses to the Pandemic
In the years leading up to the pandemic, rising inequality created a saving glut of the rich which pushed down interest rates and fueled...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Ring Frauds, PPP, Restaurants and Steak Houses
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
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Congress Can Move Now to Stop Amazon’s Cloning Factory. Here’s How
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...
Economic Crisis and Poverty Might Kill More People Than the Coronavirus
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.
“Stop Looking for a Post-Covid Intellectual, We Have Found One”: Le Point Profiles Luigi Zingales
Writer and entrepreneur Mathieu Laine wrote an extensive profile of Luigi Zingales for the French magazine Le Point. They discussed the pandemic, the nature...
How to Save 40 percent of the Payroll Protection Program’s Costs
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...
Back to Work? The Political Preparation for “Phase 2” of the Pandemic Is a Matter of Trust
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...
The Coronavirus Crisis Has Exposed Private Equity’s Unsustainable Business Model
Private equity portfolio companies are heavily indebted, and they aren’t generating enough cash to service debts. The steady increase in asset values since 2009...
