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9 votes
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What happens in a recession and is it inevitable?
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US GDP doesn’t credit social distancing, but it should
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Pandemic bills are so big that only money-printing can pay them
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Solar’s future is insanely cheap
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How much is a human life actually worth?
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Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability
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How scientists could stop the next pandemic before it starts
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The class politics of the dollar system
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Why we're seeing mass layoffs in the US but not the UK
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Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom
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US restaurant closings spur farmers to destroy food
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Coronavirus is dealing a gut punch to the illegal drug trade, paralyzing economies, closing borders, and severing supply chains in China
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Tory Bruno—CEO of United Launch Alliance—discusses rocket reusability, SpaceX, and the economics of operating a space launch business
10 votes -
The coronavirus in America: The year ahead
9 votes -
Millennials are now the new lost generation
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Denmark may issue securities in foreign currencies for the first time in years to finance programs to support the economy through the coronavirus crisis
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Why this is unlike the Great Depression (better & worse)
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The global dollar short squeeze
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The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street gets a bailout and you don't
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Amsterdam to embrace 'doughnut' model to mend post-coronavirus economy
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How come Australia suddenly has billions of dollars to pay for welfare?
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Young adults, burdened with debt, are now facing an economic crisis
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US lost 701,000 jobs in March; much worse to come
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Norway wealth fund lost record $113 billion in stock slump – fund faces first forced asset sales for crisis fiscal spending
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
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Social Security recipients who don’t usually file tax returns will automatically get $1,200 payments, Treasury says in reversal
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UN Report: Shared responsibility, global solidarity: Responding to the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19
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US President Donald Trump has signed a $2,000,000,000,000 stimulus bill, along with many other leaders in their respective nations
This thread is a follow-up to the oil prices thread we had less than a month ago. Australia has signed a stimulus package So has the US (title) (link) And Canada And Brazil (in portuguese) So how...
This thread is a follow-up to the oil prices thread we had less than a month ago.
Australia has signed a stimulus package
So has the US (title) (link)
And Brazil (in portuguese)
So how are we feeling about this? Will the packages do their jobs and bandage the economy together until we stop the virus, are we headed towards a new great recession/depression, is this the nail in the coffin for the US as a political power (China has the virus under control in their nation and they're selling/giving out tons of masks so if the US economy is nuked and the Chinese only feel the trade effects then they can further empower themselves)
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The new US stimulus bill is massive, but it might not be enough
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Too big to fail
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As New Zealand goes into lockdown, government considers a universal basic income to ward off economic peril
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Opinion: Stop private speculation in COVID-19 research
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Denmark’s idea could help the world avoid a great depression
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US Fed ready for unlimited QE and aid for companies, municipalities
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Book Review: Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller
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Which workers are most vulnerable to the economic costs of COVID-19?
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What if Andrew Yang was right? Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government
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The State of the Restaurant Industry
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Markets are down for a reason: Also the Fed’s response, capital requirements, opportunistic M&A and securities fraud
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Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute
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Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero and launches massive $700 billion quantitative easing program
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Not enough face masks are made in America to deal with coronavirus
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What is the inflation rate these days?
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Prosperous Universe Presence release is live
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Is this unprecedented?
I'm only 30, but I can't think of a time entire sectors of the economy were shutting down like this. I'm looking at statements from countries that appear vastly more prepared and honest, like...
I'm only 30, but I can't think of a time entire sectors of the economy were shutting down like this.
I'm looking at statements from countries that appear vastly more prepared and honest, like Germany, who say they expect 60-70% of the population to contract the virus. Am I wrong for seeing the general lack of appropriate reaction from the US and expecting worse?
I expect the US will eventually be in a similar situation like Italy is. Most people staying home and most businesses shut down. How do people pay bills? Mortgages? Rent? Healthcare? Find money for basic supplies? Car loans?
Has something like this happened before to a modern economy?
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Getting serious about the economic response to COVID-19
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The global financial markets have been behaving strangely this week, indicating that something could be breaking down in the workings of the financial system
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Houston is not prepared for the oil bust
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The economy of South Korea
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