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What accounts for the apparently dramatic mismatch between the stock market and the economy? Unemployment is the worst it has been since the Great Depression. Goldman Sachs says it could hit 25%. Gross domestic product could fall by 42.8%, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
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For all the attention paid to the boom in use of the videoconferencing app Zoom, the big winner of the coronavirus lockdown so far may be a less work-oriented, more social Zoom competitor called Houseparty. Bloomberg News reports that Houseparty has "been one of the most popular social-networking apps
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A Worcester, Massachusetts pastor, Kristopher Casey, has been punished with a $300 civil fine for convening more than 10 people at his church services and is facing criminal charges. And where has the press been in the face of what seems, on its face, to be an egregious violation of
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Joe Biden has chosen an opponent for the 2020 general election — and it's not Donald Trump, but instead, of all people, an economics professor who died in 2006. "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore," Biden declared in a half-hour exclusive interview with Michael
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Democratic politicians are eying the newly limitless federal budget with the appetite of coronavirus-era shoppers swarming a new shipment of toilet paper. "We're in need. Where are you?" the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, tweeted at President Donald Trump recently, asking Trump to
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In the fight between the governors and President Donald Trump over who has the authority to reopen America, the politicians have it wrong. It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families,
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Early in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 novel Fleishman Is in Trouble, there's a scene in which a man recently separated from his wife is interrogated by another parent in his child's class. It was a familiar pattern: "Had things been hard for long?"
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President Donald Trump has an opportunity both to defeat the novel coronavirus and to gain advantage for the United States in its struggle with China. The competition between the United States and China for global influence predates both the coronavirus crisis and the Trump administration. It flared earlier in this