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How to Save American Middle-Sized Businesses from the Coronavirus Supply-Chain Crisis
Congress passed an $8.3 billion spending bill to address the coronavirus epidemic, but the bill will not protect small companies. Republican Senator Marco Rubio put forward...
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Coronavirus Special Issue
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
This is by far my favorite headline of...
American Oligarch: Michael Bloomberg Reveals His One Remaining Path to the Democratic Nomination
Michael Bloomberg's only real path to the nomination was always a contested convention, where he could be able to further leverage his wealth and...
Paul Krugman on the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: “We Are Very Vulnerable, This Could Be Pretty Bad”
A sneak video preview of next week's episode of Capitalisn't, the podcast hosted by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock, in which Nobel Prize-winning economist...
Paul Krugman on the Economic Impact of Coronavirus: "We Are Very Vulnerable, This Could Be Pretty Bad"
A sneak video preview of next week's episode of Capitalisn't, the podcast hosted by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock, in which Nobel Prize-winning economist...
Who Won the South Carolina Democratic Debate? The ProMarket Panel's Analysis
Is Bernie Sanders inevitable, and is Michael Bloomberg doomed? Which candidate would be best suited to avoid a recession in the US? A ProMarket...
The Most Persistent of All Zombie Ideas: That Taxing the Wealthy Is Destructive to the Economy
Economics can’t tell you what values to have. It can, however, shed light on what to expect from policy that reflects any particular set...
The Trump Administration Attacks the Stigler Report on Digital Platforms
President Trump’s 2020 Economic Report finally confronts the issue of antitrust enforcement both in the traditional economy and in the digital one. While it...
How to Choose a President: The Electoral College and an Argument Whose Time Has Gone
Two of the three presidents in this century, George Bush and Donald Trump, initially won office by coming in second in the popular vote. The...
Biden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren: The Real Impact of Democratic Candidates' Tax Plans
According to UC Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, all of the Democratic candidates' plans increase tax rates on the rich but to...
