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Author: Scott Lemieux

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The ability to do widespread testing is critically important when trying to contain a pandemic. The failure to set it up in February will make this much more deadly and disruptive than it needed to be: But as the deadly virus from China spread with...
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The Countercycle Problem

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On March 27, 2020
Catherine Rampell points out that Congress needs to provide more aid to the states as their tax revenues crater while their spending needs increase: States are facing huge shortages — and not just of ventilators, masks and health-care personnel.They’re about to confront enormous budget shortages,...
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The attempted Graham/Scott/Sasse/Rubio/Skeletor Medicare Fraud shakedown of the unemployed failed: The Senate unanimously passed a $2.2 trillion emergency relief bill Wednesday night aimed at limiting the financial trauma that the coronavirus pandemic is inflicting on the United States, and lawmakers acted with unusual speed to...
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