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Anti-Monopoly During Pandemic and large-scale factory farms & COVID

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/business/dealbook/coronavirus-merger-ban.html?action=click&module=Briefings&pgtype=Homepage https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/848079558/episode-995-buybacks-and-bailouts https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/technology/jeff-bezos-congress.html a shortage of steak https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/opinion/meat-shortage-farming.html https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/16/coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-food-animals https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/covid-19-pandemic-shows-banning-factory-farms-more-important-ever

Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction Noo-Sphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwN5BV8vZUg

ECONOMISTS’ STATEMENT ON CARBON DIVIDENDS and Brookings Covid & CC

https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/ and the covid crisis https://www.brookings.edu/events/webinar-confronting-climate-change-in-the-global-covid-19-recovery/ beach property resilence? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/opinion/climate-change-architecture-design.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Joseph Stiglitz: An Economy Without Spare Tires and Tom Friedman

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mxzii-d9d066?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/22/top-economist-us-coronavirus-response-like-third-world-country-joseph-stiglitz-donald-trump harmonize our need to protect ourselves from the coronavirus and our need to get back to work — as well as harmonize our need to protect the planet’s ecosystems and our need for economic growth — we are doomed. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opinion/coronavirus-immunity-trump.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage The false trade-off   survey of economists https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/opinion/coronavirus-economy-reopen.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The Tax-Break Bonanza Inside the Economic Rescue Package

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/business/tax-breaks-wealthy-virus.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

The Perverse Economics of Ventilators with open markets ventillator article 104

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ventilator-shortage-reflects-profit-driven-innovation-by-shamel-azmeh-2020-04 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html

MMT Myth of Helicopter Money

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/modern-monetary-theory-is-not-helicopter-money-by-yeva-nersisyan-and-l-randall-wray-2020-04?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=554d179774-covid_newsletter_23_04_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-554d179774-93635693&mc_cid=554d179774&mc_eid=c60f80c1d3

Failing the Coronavirus Test

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/opinion/coronavirus-test.html

As Bolsonaro Keeps Amazon Vows, Brazil’s Indigenous Fear ‘Ethnocide’

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/world/americas/bolsonaro-brazil-amazon-indigenous.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

The Spies Who Predicted COVID-19 and Bill Gates on Future pandemics

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-intelligence-coronavirus-pandemic-by-kent-harrington-2020-04?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6ea3a6f0d6-sunday_newsletter_19_04_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-6ea3a6f0d6-93635693&mc_cid=6ea3a6f0d6&mc_eid=c60f80c1d3 Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst, served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Chief of Station in Asia, and the CIA’s Director of Public Affairs. how to fight future pandemics: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2020/04/23/bill-gates-on-how-to-fight-future-pandemics Gates Notes on the economy https://www.gatesnotes.com/

The America We Need NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/opinion/america-inequality-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/opinion/coronavirus-us-economy-inequality.html

Webinar: Confronting climate change in the global COVID-19 recovery

https://www.brookings.edu/events/webinar-confronting-climate-change-in-the-global-covid-19-recovery/

Raj Chetty in 14 charts: Big findings on opportunity and mobility we should all know

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2018/01/11/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-big-findings-on-opportunity-and-mobility-we-should-know/

The Normal Economy Is Never Coming Back

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/09/unemployment-coronavirus-pandemic-normal-economy-is-never-coming-back/

Samantha Power: How the COVID-19 Era Will Change National Security Forever

https://time.com/5820625/national-security-coronavirus-samantha-power/

Is China Winning? the Economist

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/04/16/is-china-winning?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/2020/04/16n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/NA/452381/n

Starve the Beast, Feed the Depression Krugman vs How Europe manages to keep lid on unemployment

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/opinion/trump-coronavirus-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-europe-manages-to-keep-a-lid-on-coronavirus-unemployment-while-it-spikes-in-the-us/ar-BB12uoKS

Medical expert shares warning about insufficient coronavirus test access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymmk5drzmeA

Federal Reserve Actions

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/the-federal-reserves-coronavirus-crisis-actions-explained-part-5.html

Talib Black Swan and false trade-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2pXXUSzmI

Relating the Epi-curve and the economy How to re-open

https://voxeu.org/article/supply-side-matters-guns-versus-butter-covid-style

Carbon tax -- Carbon Dividend Wharton Study

https://publicpolicy.wharton.upenn.edu/live/news/1519-why-a-carbon-tax-is-good-for-the-us-economy graphs https://welkerswikinomics.com/blog/2012/11/09/economic-arguments-for-and-against-a-carbon-tax/

Fareed Zakaria How the World will Change

https://www.ted.com/talks/fareed_zakaria_how_the_world_could_change_after_the_coronavirus_pandemic?utm_medium=referral&utm_term=global-social+issues&utm_campaign=social&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=talk

How to Save Black and Hispanic Lives in a Pandemic and America 2.0

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/coronavirus-poor-black-latino.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/opinion/economy-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Here’s How You Can Change Lives in the Pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-giving-guide.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

How Britain and Europe stops going down down down

‘We’re Going Down, Down, Down, Down, Down’

Supply Chains sputter and Elon and modelling Reopening

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/business/economy/global-trade-shortages-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage elon musk economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h97fXhDN5qE https://voxeu.org/article/supply-side-matters-guns-versus-butter-covid-style

The Pandemic Feeds Tech Companies’ Power

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/technology/coronavirus-big-tech.html

Animal Viruses Are Jumping to Humans. Forest Loss Makes It Easier.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/climate/animals-humans-virus-covid.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stopping-deforestation-can-prevent-pandemics/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=earth&utm_content=link&utm_term=2020-05-06_top-stories&spMailingID=64678544&spUserID=MTI4NDMxMTU0NzI4S0&spJobID=1880744581&spReportId=MTg4MDc0NDU4MQS2 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/climate/animals-humans-virus-covid.html

COVID-19 Podcasts on Capitalisn't

https://capitalisnt.simplecast.com/

The Pandemic Stress Test

https://www.fuw.ch/article/the-pandemic-stress-test/