"Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, the political battles between the White House and the nation's Democratic governors have been almost as fierce as the virus's assault on the nation," writes
Treating the economic effects of the global COVID-19 epidemic as a conventional recession means prescribing the wrong medicine and harming the patient, writes LBJ's Michael Lind .
As the COVID-19 crisis deepens, my fellow economists have reached deep into their bare cupboards of old ideas, and what have they found? Models that do not work, writes LBJ's James Galbraith .
Congress should create a Health Finance Corporation to address resource allocation and the financing of the Covid-19 response. Immediately, write LBJ's Michael Lind and James Galbraith .
Compared to a world war, the COVID-19 epidemic is a fairly manageable problem, provided that the U.S. government can rise to the challenge. But without a mass mobilization to secure critical supplies...