#Bailouts

Robert "Rebuild America" Duval

When would I consider buying.......Energy: When multiple Major players in shale go BK. Airlines: Ditto. Financials: Maybe -- AFTER large dividend cuts and resulting panic. I won't compete with the

ArthurDelaneyHP

A reader tells me her bank told her she's not eligible for a Paycheck Protection Program loan because she's self-employed. Self-employed ARE eligible. But banks are basically running the program,

HealthUntoDeath

Degree courses should only be allowed to exist if associated with strong graduate employment outcomes. And now to continue flicking this random switch on and off despite it not being

Whoa, my zip code has a population under 19,000 people and 67 coronavirus bailout loans over $150,000.https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/ Double 18 Inc., for example, got between $2M and $5M. https://www.myfloridalicense.c

When I talked with @NickHanauer and @PitchforkEcon about my paper with @GaneshSitaraman, @AdamLevitin and @GDI_policy, it looked like Congress was headed home just as the expanded UI benefits were set

Kenneth P. Vogel

SCOOP: At least two conservative groups backing TRUMP's re-opening push — @FreedomWorks & @LibertyCounsel — have applied for @SBAgov loans.FreedomWorks application is notable, since:1) it opposed past bailouts.2) it's organizing

reality exposes all ideologies in the end -- and that's happening now to the shareholder-first movement, a faith that that has dominated US capitalism for decades, and whose main article

I'm not sure I understand some of the criticism I've seen of the Government's new FutureFund scheme for supporting tech companies.Here's a quick thread of why I think it seems

Robᵉʳᵗ Graham😷, provocateur

1/ I'm seeing a lot of twitter outrage today over market going up in response to massive unemployment increases. I can't tell if people are actually serious about this, or

So committed to ‘free speech' the government bailout includes stipulations on what universities will not be allowed to teachhttps://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/16/english-universities-must-prove-commitment-to-free-speech-fo

Dan Woynillowicz

As "Federal cabinet readies airline bailout package” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-federal-cabinet-readies-airline-bailout-package/ there don’t appear to be any “green strings.” That's problematic when yo

Bailouts are wrong for several reasons:1) demand has fallen off a cliff, many airlines are zombie companies2) monies are politically allocated, not to directly fighting the virus3) it’s upward redistribution

Copying France, Poland & Denmark’s approach of banning tax haven companies from getting bailouts doesn’t do much 1/ According to @phdskat Denmark’s rule will affect approx 70 companies including a

Tax Justice Network

Denmark and Poland are right to exclude corporations registered in tax havens from getting bailouts – economies cannot be rebuilt on top of a tax haven trapdoor. But to tackle

I've been thinking a lot about small businesses and I can't see any way that many of them will survive without bailouts that are way bigger and more flexible than

Let me elaborate on this point.Imagine you send out 4 months x $2K = $8K to every Canadian adult. That would cost about 30million X 8K = $240B. Many have