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17 votes
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Houston is not prepared for the oil bust
8 votes -
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?
38 votes -
Prosperous Universe Presence release is live
7 votes -
The economy of South Korea
4 votes -
How the working-class life is killing Americans, in charts
26 votes -
Major bank economist says the coronavirus market reaction ‘boggles the mind’
12 votes -
Norway's sovereign wealth fund made a 19.9% return on investment last year, earning a record 1.69 trillion Norwegian crowns ($180 billion)
15 votes -
Covid-19 could mark the end of affluence politics in the USA, as the possibility of a global pandemic reveals the inability to make and distribute the things people need
21 votes -
Dr. Michael Hudson: Economic lessons (from 2008) for 2020
3 votes -
Now that Sweden has called a halt to its five-year trial with negative interest rates the serious work has begun on looking at whether it worked
7 votes -
Costco capitalism
9 votes -
The nuclear family was a mistake
14 votes -
The world's lowest interest rate may soon be raised in Denmark – new forecasts were triggered by the exchange rate
4 votes -
POTS: protective optimization technologies
5 votes -
The great affordability crisis breaking America
5 votes -
There are no known commodity resources in space that could be sold on Earth
13 votes -
Field experiments and the practice of policy - Esther Duflo's Nobel Lecture (2019)
4 votes -
Why Swexit is unthinkable – trade ties make Sweden's European Union departure unthinkable
5 votes -
What is something cheap to create but expensive to purchase?
I was having a conversation with a friend today about the economics of art and the potential cost of purchasing an idea. It got me thinking, what are some other things relatively cheap to create...
I was having a conversation with a friend today about the economics of art and the potential cost of purchasing an idea. It got me thinking, what are some other things relatively cheap to create but expensive to purchase?
19 votes -
US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak could bring back jobs to America
8 votes -
The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how.
11 votes -
Fitch downgrades Finland's outlook, raising doubts about return to AAA rating
4 votes -
How capitalism broke young adulthood
16 votes -
The economy of Stalinist Russia
5 votes -
War by other means: Syria’s economic struggle
4 votes -
International Money Fund World Economic Outlook update - January 2020
3 votes -
Exit, voice, or loyalty… what should we do when things go wrong?
6 votes -
All the world’s wealth in one visual
12 votes -
The economic effects of automation aren’t what you think they are
13 votes -
Iceland's tourism revolution
4 votes -
Mark Blyth - So can we have it all?
4 votes -
Free market or socialism: Have economists really anything to say?
7 votes -
The monopolization of the American market and how it happened
8 votes -
The modern economy of Russia
6 votes -
The economy of Sweden
7 votes -
Four reasons why millennials don't have any money with Robert Reich
9 votes -
How valuing productivity, not profession, could reduce US inequality
5 votes -
How elite professions create inequality
5 votes -
The $250 trillion burden weighing on the global economy in 2020
9 votes -
Prosperous Universe - This deep simulation of space economics is surprisingly compelling
7 votes -
The economics of poverty
5 votes -
Sweden in global spotlight with interest rate move – Riksbank has ended a period of negative rates but will other central banks around the world now follow suit?
3 votes -
For the eleventh year in a row, Iceland is the country ranking first in the World Economic Forum's Geneva Equality List
7 votes -
Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman who helped shape American economic policy for decades, notably by leading the Federal Reserve’s campaign to subdue inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, is dead at 92
4 votes -
For the first time in US history, a decade will pass without the country falling into a recession
13 votes -
Jobs, jobs everywhere, but most of them kind of suck
23 votes -
Why America's one-percenters are richer than Europe's
10 votes -
Finland braced for strikes seen shaving $220 million off economy
4 votes -
Iceland's prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures
11 votes