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GDP will crash this quarter, but it's not a catastrophe in itself. The fall is a measure of the effectiveness of the lockdown.

In late 2019, doctors and public health experts in Wuhan saw symptoms they concluded were caused by a new virus, but Beijing did not respond correctly. The U.S. president had weeks of warning.

COVID-19 pays no attention to big-city/small town differences.

What would a Great Depression/World War II-like mobilization of American society look like if we were to attempt to fix our country and society today in the midst of the pandemic?

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LBJ's James Galbraith weighs in on The American Prospect's economists roundtable on the coronavirus, arguing that the pandemic has ma

LBJ's James Galbraith discusses the economic and political implications of the COVID-19 crisis — including the shortcomings of the American ec

James K. Galbraith asks: Will we learn from this crisis that our present precarity capitalism must be brought to an end?

LBJ's Sherri Greenberg, a professor of practice at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about how local

In a story outlining the current world oil production situation, LBJ's Aldo Flores-Quiroga, the former Mexican deputy oil minister who negot