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How The Billionaire Behind The Movie ‘Contagion’ Is Working To Stop This Pandemic—And The Next One

Jeff Skoll has been funding pandemic preparedness for more than a decade, even longer than Bill Gates. In recent months, he’s increased his philanthropic giving to help combat Covid-19

25 июня 2020 9 мин. 8906

Bill And Melinda Gates Have Sharp Words For U.S.’ Lack Of Leadership Role In Fighting Pandemic

Speaking at the Forbes 400 Summit on Philanthropy, the couple discuss plans to make sure that Covid-19 treatments and vaccines don’t just go to the highest bidding nations but are distributed equitably

24 июня 2020 5 мин. 12387

Global Recovery’s $22 Trillion Price Tag Grows By The Day

As Covid-19 fallout sinks global growth, major central banks are throwing an America-sized life preserver at the crisis

23 июня 2020 4 мин. 5315

United States of Despair

PRINCETON – Well before COVID-19 struck, there was another epidemic running rampant in the United States, killing more Americans in 2018 than the coronavirus has killed so far. What we call “deaths of despair” – deaths by suicide, alcohol-related liver disease, and drug overdose – have risen rapidly since the mid-1990s, increasing from about 65,000 per year in 1995 to 158,000 in 2018

22 июня 2020 6 мин. 5496

China Is $8 Trillion Away From Eclipsing Trump’s Economy

What if the U.S. had the economic equivalent of a Sputnik moment and the White House failed to notice?

19 июня 2020 5 мин. 7739

Asian Perspectives On The Post-Covid-19 World

Number crunchers are coming up with an increasingly downbeat outlook for the global economy

18 июня 2020 14 мин. 10413

The Illusion of a Rapid US Recovery

AUSTIN – As protests roil the United States, the country’s center-left economists gaze brightly into their crystal balls

17 июня 2020 6 мин. 5197

Modi’s Fiscal Follies

NEW DELHI – Students in introductory macroeconomics courses typically used to learn about the paradox of thrift. This theory, popularized by John Maynard Keynes, states that if households decide to save more and consume less during a slowdown or recession (because of uncertainty about future income), then the resulting reduction in aggregate demand will aggravate the economic decline